Design Process of 2D Short Animated Film About Technology Addiction (Case Study: Connected)

by Jonathan Alexander

Mankind currently lives in the information era, where people experience a high acceleration of the ability to accessing information and knowledge that create a very significant and challenging social change. This change demands adaptability of ethic and social culture at the same high pace, especially to children that were on the “Early Childhood Development” stage. Responding to the issue, a design process work of short animated film will be made. This design process starts from the script, storyboard, concept art, 3D asset creation, background painting, until 3D and 2D animation. All of these processes are done based on literature review and application of various visual theories, from fundamental theory like the theory of color, and principles of design, until more complex one like Mise-en-Scène and character depth. The overall look of this film is a stylized 2D, where a lot of manual digital drawing is done. However, to speed up the 2D animation film production time that usually is time-consuming, and the integration of 3D animation is made, where the character animation part is done by using the 3D animation pipeline. Thus not only helps to quicken the animation process and revision but also helps to keep the consistency of the character’s shape and volume that are very hard to achieve in 2D animation. After going through the design process for 8 months, the result is a 5 minutes 43 seconds long short animated film which is expected to be able to address technology issues attractively and give serious concern to the issue as well.