Untitled Chess Project

Over the summer of 2021 I began working on the story for a short claymation film I planned to make, based around chess. Whilst I was throwing around ideas for the narrative, I also worked on the various charatcer designs. This process took me into the beginning of 2022, when I finally had a completed treatment written, and a rough idea of how all of the characters would look (though occasional and sometimes drastic changes would still be made over the following months).

Throughout spring of 2022, I storyboarded the first and second act of the film, leading into the beginning of summer where I began doing some animation tests and made a start on constructing the props, such as the weapons, headgear and even the board itself (as I needed one that could fit all of my characters on it).

Animation finally began in September of 2022. I decided to begin with the second act of the film, which centres around the game of chess itself. As of right now I am still working on it, and have no idea of when it’ll reach completion.