Midnight Refraction is an animatic produced as a thesis project for my year-long Creative Seminar course for my degree. I wrote a rough draft of a script to guide the animatic, and produced character sheets as well as some environment illustrations to help establish the setting of the narrative. As the animatic is black-and-white, the additional illustrations support it with greater detail and the use of color.
One of the illustrations features a gas station, which was a location for a scene that I made the decision to cut in order to bring the story to a conclusion within the time I had available. The scene would have shown the character Lune exchanging her bank funds for cash in the gas station, and throwing her phone into the desert.
Midnight Refraction is a shift in paths. It’s about freedom, and choosing to take the right path, even if it’s harder.
A selection of some of my favorite frames from Midnight Refraction.