the process of making

LEft Behind

Animated Short

WORKing on the design

Year
12/2022

Early Storyboard

The flow of the video and general shot list was there from the beginning, but you can see I wasn’t sure at first how to make the sock character run.

Animation Tests

Walk cycle tests

The most difficult part was figuring out how the sock was supposed to look when running. What does a sock puppet look like without an arm inside?

Character Art

Early sketches for the design of the laundromat character who
(fun fact) is based on my wife.

The Animatic

Sock Puppet

I knew from the beginning I wanted the sock to move as though it were a sock puppet with an invisible hand inside. So I put a sock over my hand, did a little performance and took tons of reference pics.

Animatic

After roughly sketching out some of the character models and the storyboard,
I make a quick animatic in Procreate and edit it to the background music.