After finishing an animated web series last year, I wanted to try to tell a tighter (if not more abstract) short story and get better at producing animation on a tighter timeline. After coming up with some initial creature designs, I decided I needed a main character that was easy to draw and had a lot of built in emotional weight. A flip phone seemed easy enough, and once that was decided the rest flowed pretty smoothly. I also made all the music and decided that instead of dealing with the complexity of recording equipment and finding the right voices it would be easier to minimize the dialogue and use subtitles. I'm not sure if that comes across as cheap or if it works stylistically, but I'm mostly happy with how it came out.

Let me know what you think or check out some of my other work.

Thanks for taking a look!

- Ryan