Green Ninja!

It's finally online! I'm proud of this episode since I co-directed it with Samia Khalaf and we had an awesome team consisting of

(click on their names for their blogs!)
Vis Dev
Leslie Wyatt, Maaike Scherff, Stella Longfish.
Animation
John Kleckner, Chelsea Holt, Danielle Harmon, Matt White, Natalie Corsie, Heather Gregersen, Arturo Miramontes.

and produced by Revathi Kotni!

The Green Ninja Project is a collaborative effort started in San Jose State where students and faculty come together to promote climate science and solutions to current world problems.

Samia approached me with the idea of a video game themed episode and I thought it was really cool so I hopped on board. We went through a couple revisions of story, style, and at one point since we thought it would be mainly just us two, to have it as a motion comic style where animation is minimal and we would rely more on illustrations. Eventually we went back to the video game idea and gathered a crew together to pull it off! We worked on it most of last semester then myself and Samia edited it over winter break. I'm pretty happy with how it came out and glad we had an enthusiastic team for it.

So this older animatic had a couple of problems. It had more of a storytelling aspect to it rather than video game and it had no ending.

Here are some sweet notes we got from Dave to simplify and to incorporate the solutions to climate change into the fighting moves.

The animatic we made to address the notes and the final below! Originally it was going to be silent with captions but it felt empty so in the end they have voices!