About the Project
​This was my senior capstone project for my last year of university. I've had this idea for a couple of years to explore a friendship between an old monster and a teenage girl. I even did some test animations for it early on before deciding there was something worth pursuing in this story. My project was to create pre-production work: Assets, storyboards, scripts, and environments.
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Release Date: May 2020
Role: Director, Animator
Tools: Autodesk Maya, Adobe Photoshop
CREDITS
Director and Producer: RJ Kroeplin
Environment Artist: RJ Kroeplin and Gavin Popken
Animators: Patrick Shay, Adam Bordsen, Ashlyn Hughes, and RJ Kroeplin
CONCEPT SKETCH
Pre-production
Margo and Stan. This sketch was done during the preliminary stage before the story became what it is.
QUINN'S RIG
created using Autodesk Maya Rig
The Jasmine Rose rig was remodeled and polished for the film with new hair and outfit.
STAN'S RIG
created using Autodesk Maya Rig
The rig was bought and clothes were added to make the character become Stan.
THE INSPIRATION
2018 Animation Test
For a class in university, I animated a fight scene and this became the inspiration for this short film. In this version, a young girl and a monster go on an adventure to find her parents and along the way they run into strange enemies.