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Image credit to Z2H Media
Animism: The Gods' Lake is an animated kids' show on APTN in Canada. It pairs modern Urban Fantasy with traditional First Nations' mythology. It focusses on a group of people who's story is woven through the powerful forces surrounding the fictional location of "Gods' Lake", and around a heroine who is tapped to be aemmisary for the unleashed, and sometimes violent, forces of the world.
For this project, my main role was over-all conceptualizing, generating all assets, working with sound designers and composers, animating the piece(s) surrounding the pilot episode. I also provided support in terms of strategy consultation and graphic design for the accompanying Alternate Reality Game while was played across the continenet by a dedicated group of people.
The pilot episode was nominated for a Leo Award, and was also a finalist at SXSW-I for online motion graphics in 2010.
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Preliminary lookframe for "The Wanderer" style portion
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Preliminary lookframe for "The Grower" style portion
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Preliminary lookframe for "The Grinder" style portion
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Title cards for each chapter of the pilot series. Each one was a simple 2 second fade-in / fade-out, and the words masked out
a fire animation created by Ron Serna for the project.
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End Credit slides for each episode. This changed as the series evolved and cast / crew members changed.
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Sample portion of the ARG pack sent to media outlets and blogs
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Sample of the wooden tokens crafted by a Vancouver Native Artisan, and the business card for the fictional professor (actor) sent to speaking engagements
Blog Post on the Alternate Reality Gaming Network in advance of FanExpo 2010