Project Thesis

Heron in Trenaya is a short animation film about the impact of hydropower plants on birds and their surrounding ecosystem. While this film is based on a fictional town, it’s inspired by real-life situations and is driven by public domain data. This film is intended for individuals aged 13 years and above to educate and motivate the audience to provide alternate perspectives in a healthy manner to their respective governments. 

This 2D animation film employs workflows from Rhino, Illustrator, Photoshop, Blender Grease Pencil, Adobe Premiere Pro and Audacity

Precedents

Youtube Animation - Odd1sout, Illymation

True costs of damming a river

TedEd - Vultures

Scale of the Universe

Storyboard Snippet



Script Snippet



Interviews

Species we spoke about  -

- Vulture (Medicine-Cow-Vulture)

- Pide cockoo (Indication of Rain)

- Common Hawk (Indication for farmers to start work)

- Indian eagle bird

- Sunbird (Like a hummingbird)(Pollination? Can I find videos?)

- Raw Bird Footage

- Vulture Could be a common topic

- Explore don't confide!



Sanctuaries 

- Indian Birds 

- Birds of Pune 

- Birds of Maharashtra 

- Bharatpur Sanctuary 

- Sanctuary Asia 

Sketches Snippet



Rendering Exercises

Perspective & Figure Drawing Exercises

Rhino-Illustrator Workflow (Pt. 1)

Rhino-Illustrator Workflow Pt. 2

Blender - Rigging (Bone Workflow)

Sound Mixing - Narration, SFX & BGM

Editing Process

Final Video

Thank you Robert, Rob & Ariya

Ariya - Hydropower Plant Owner