An animated short for a bigger story I’d like to tell some day.
After being transported to a brutal world where dragons are hunted for their hearts, An aspiring engineer and his scale cursed sister journey to restore her original body and to find a way home.
Based on an original story bible I wrote years ago to pitch around to studios. I decided to finish a sort of “miniscule pilot” or “teaser” two years ago after abandoning many previous versions of this project. I decided to wrap it up. Thank you all for your support.
Dusk's Flight Original Score:
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--CREDITS---
Directed and Animated by Toniko Pantoja
Original score by Denny Schneidemesser
Casting By...Lauren Synger, The Voice Sphere, LLC
Voice Director...Lauren Synger, The Voice Sphere, LLC
Creative Consultant…Lauren Synger, The Voice Sphere, LLC
Sound Design…Patrick MacDougall
Audio Production…Patrick MacDougall
CAST
Logan- Nazeeh Tarsha
Sarah- Lauren Synger
Dragon Sarah- Lani Minella & Lauren Synger
Collin- Tim Simmons
The Witch- Tiffany Bennicke
The Red Queen- Lani Minella
Ashleigh- Erin Ashe
Gotts- Sean Crisden
Mysterious Voices- Lauren Synger
Additional Voices- Lani Minella
ANIMATION PRODUCTION ASSISTANCE
-Animation Assistance-
Tabuley
Elena Volk
Anastasia Turaeva
-Animation Coloring Assistance-
Felicity Morland
Daniel “Spacedad” St. Clair
--Book keeping + accounting ---
Karen Genilo
-Background Paint Assistance-
Thanh Dang
-CG FX + Compositing Assistance-
Allan Parker
SPECIAL THANKS
Chris Palmer
Rune Bennicke
Nomad’s Cafe Discord Group
Team Halo Halo
TVPaint Development
Adobe Creative Cloud
Toonboom
Blender Foundation
I was commissioned to produce an animated trailer for Victoria Ying's graphic novel, City of Secrets. I finished this almost two months ago. Now I can finally show it!
"Ever Barnes is a shy orphan guarding a secret in an amazing puzzle box of a building.
Most of the young women who work at the building’s Switchboard Operating Facility, which connects the whole city of Oskar, look the other way as Ever roams around in the shadows. But one of them, Lisa, keeps an eye on the boy. So does the head of the Switchboard, Madame Alexander . . . a rather sharp eye.
Enter Hannah, the spunky daughter of the building’s owner. She thinks Ever needs a friend, even if he doesn’t know it yet.
Good thing she does!
Lisa and Madame Alexander are each clearly up to something.
Ever is beset by a menacing band of rogues looking to unlock the secret he holds–at any cost.
And whatever is hidden deep in the Switchboard building will determine all of their futures.
On a journey that twists and turns as much as the mechanical building Ever Barnes calls home, he and his new friend Hannah have to and out what’s really going on in this mysterious city of secrets . . . or else!"
Check out the graphic novel here:
PENGUIN RANDOMHOUSE OFFICIAL SITE- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/bo...
AMAZON KINDLE - https://www.amazon.com/City-Secrets-V...
AMAZON PAPERBACK - https://www.amazon.com/City-Secrets-V...
Hey guys!
Sorry I haven't been posting much, but here is a Proof of Concept video for a thing I've been trying to develop. This idea is set in the early 1990s, the footage is really just to show the specific aesthetics and tone for it.
Music is Madonna - Like a Prayer
Voices by Tiffany Benicke, Sean Gilvary and myself.