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Introduction<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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What is the Zenith project?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the end of our Senior year at Freestyle Academy, we create one final project at the end of the year called our Zenith. We have freedom to do almost anything within or related to our elective class, and so this project is both a representation of our passions and a culmination of the skills we’ve learned during our time here. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Zenith<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For my Zenith project in Animation, I chose to work with my close friend Sofia Dominguez. Earlier in the year, we collaborated with another friend Aditi Biswas to write a story for our world building project in English. We wanted to take these characters and make them come alive, and so we ultimately created an opening animation for our story as if it were a real cartoon!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve been drawing for as long as I can remember, and more than that I\u2019ve always loved telling stories through my art. I was always a little intimidated by animation, but Freestyle really pushed me past that, and now it\u2019s one of my favorite mediums for storytelling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Context<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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For some quick context, our story takes place in a fantasy world with four tribes of magic: Sigil, Music, Alchemy, and Blacksmith.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A map of the valley where our story takes place, drawn by Sofia!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The four tribes, drawn by Aditi!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Our main cast consists of:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tala, our 18 year old main character who is a member of the Sigil Tribe<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Sol, a 15 year old member of the music tribe<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Wren, a 19 year old member of the Alchemy Tribe<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lazarus, a 29 year old silly guy.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Pre-Production<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Pre-Production: Initial Explorations<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first thing we did was sit down with some binder paper and start drawing. We knew we wanted to tell a story about our characters from our world building project, but we didn’t know what. The first thing we actually came up with was a college AU!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(by Sofia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(by me)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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(by Sofia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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That didn’t really go anywhere though. Sofia then had the idea of creating a short, very polished 20 second animation of all of our characters jumping towards the camera showing their forms of magic. This was super cool, but I wanted to do something a little more narrative driven, and that’s when we thought of making a cartoon opening! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pre-Production: Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now that we knew what we wanted to do, we studied some intro animations! Through this, we noticed the main purposes seemed to be getting the viewer excited for the episode & series, to communicate the overall feel of the show, and to introduce the main characters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following were big inspirations to us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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