Echo is an animated short film made as graduation project by a group of 3D Animation students at CETAV. It explores the briefness and innocence of relationships within it’s two characters, becoming a reflection of ourselves, an Echo.The project was made by 5 students and 3 mentors at Parque la Libertad, San José, Costa Rica, taking a total of 428 work hours and merging a didactic process with animation production.
Tasks involved:
-Script
-General creative direction
-Animatic
-Overall supervision
-Character concept art
-Logo Design
Animatic
Early Concept art
Character Development
Since the beggining, we wanted expressive characters that could merge the concepts of finite lives, vulnerability as well as technically help us when producing and rendering the short.
Wax semitransparent characters could show emotion, be visually interesting and innovative, while also giving us a sense of warmth and vulnerability.
The semitransparent characters could show a heartbeat manifested in light and sound, as well as being fragile and sensitive to heat, represented by either the company it chases, or its own heartbeat.