Narrative Tease

A 30-second animated trailer to tease the plot of a non-visual story. I chose the novel This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone.

The story is about two rival agents, Red and Blue, who eventually fall in love. Aside from their colors, they are also different in their themes—Red belongs to a technotopia while Blue belongs to a rooted nature society. I worked a lot with contrasting elements. So aside from color, I also made the red and blue elements different in their rendering, red elements in vector versus blue in rasterized hand-drawn style.

Storyboards

Motion Studies/Assets