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Maya Severino

BS in Entertainment Design - Animation — Entertainment Design
Course:
Shorts 1 & 2
Faculty:
Terri Shellen
Term:
2025 Spring
Collaborators:
Gustavo Hemstreet and Kyumin Kim

Sugarcoat

Set in a candy-and-sweets world, a mysterious but notorious Bounty Hunter enters the roughest bar in the land with one goal: capture the Gingerbread Man, DEAD or ALIVE.

Process:

This short was part of a three-person group project for Shorts 1 (Fall 2024) and Shorts 2 (Spring 2025). I was the executive producer but the story was pitched by me. My team and I also played the additional roles of storyboarding, animation and visual development (I was responsible for character design). 

Learning Outcomes:

Since this was my first collaborative project for animation, my biggest learning curves were being a producer and finalizing an animation. I was already skilled with scheduling and organization but using a professional chart for animation on Google Sheets was new to me. For animation, this short taught me how to cleanup and color an animation in ToonBoom Harmony.

Project Website:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQltcH9jLKc
Tags:
2D Design,
Animation,
Character Design,
Film Editing,
Film Production