The Climb is an original animation by ilustrograma that is pure experience. We explored a new theme that we love, the passion for mountains and a new way of animating.
Each animation brings challenges like a great mountain. Each climber studies his route just as we study the scenes in the storyboards. But a map is not territory… we know that it’s only halfway up that the true north face appears.
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Before the climb, only the essential equipment for the climber’s backpack is chosen. Likewise, at the beginning of each animation, we carefully choose each element that will help us tell our story.
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After a series of hand-drawn watercolors, which were the sparks for the idea of the project, we started storyboarding in Blender using Storypencil and the whole structure of the scenes was created from that.
Concepts and storyboards are our map. The experience and resilience of each mountaineer to complete their goal, even in the face of the impossible, is like our repertoire in the various animation techniques that help us in our conquest, which is to thrill through drawings.
The purpose of The Climb was to prepare a new workflow for the studio and we managed to complete almost all of the animation and colorization in Blender, leaving only a small part of the effects that were animated in Photoshop and the compositing done in After Effects.
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Producer Company: Ilustrograma
Direction, Storyboard and Illustration: Henrique Neumann
Animation: Henrique Neumann
Marina Zucchi
Audio Producer: Ricardo Massao Fujii
3D Advisor: Daniel Meurer
