In this animation, an individual that goes by Esperanza is trying to get in contact with her Catholic faith by manifesting a church setting in her mind. The setting fades into black when the character feels anxious of loneliness. However, she was able to be eased with the presence with the Virgin Mary as she lets Esperanza know that God is with her. If this project was done again, it should be amended that the Virgin Mary isn’t meant to be an individual equal to God, but as an individual that we respect and communicate towards to aid in prayer. The animation is inspired by the unfinished work print The Thief and the Cobbler, for utilizing 2d animation to create 3d environments and include background pieces large in scale; evident to the first seconds of the animation.
To achieve the 3d effect on the benches, I first drawn a vector drawing of it in one point perspective and select the points connected to the foreground side to which dragging distorts the perspective in illustrator. This vector test is then recreated in adobe animate by using shape tweens to change the bench’s perspective from the left to the right. To keep the animation from staying in place with its distortion, a classic tween can be used to bring the first frame to the left side of the composition and can move the animation towards the right side. Giving the illusion that a camera is following the character, for the benches to descend from the right to the left while retaining a one-point perspective. It isn’t accurately one-point, but it does give the illusion of three dimensionality in a 2D environment.
As follows are the script and storyboard for the animation. The Storyboard and script varies juristically to the final product, yet time constraints lead to the potential ending to be cut.