I wanted these two sides to be contrasting, so at work our character is wearing an elegant dress, a wig, and red lipstick.
My line was, “You can sing, you can dance,” and I had this idea of an opera singer character being creative both at work and at home. What was the prompt that you were given, and how did you interpret it for this project?Īnja Shu: The whole project is about discovering creative sides of personality. Below, they share the interview with Cartoon Brew’s community. Toon Boom interviewed Anja about the scene she contributed to the demo pack for Harmony 20, as well as her advice for experimenting with textures and watercolor effects in animation. The aesthetic style of her frame-by-frame animation is directly inspired by traditional art materials.
These teams were drawn from both the Toon Boom Ambassador Program and the company’s international community, and were given total creative freedom on their scenes.Īnja Shu is a 2d animator from Kyiv, Ukraine who has contributed to a number of animated feature films, shorts, series, commercials, and games - and was selected to be a Toon Boom Ambassador for 2020. To showcase all of the features in its software Harmony 20, Toon Boom invited seven artists and teams to produce a demo video, each contributing scenes inspired by a short prompt.
