Isabelle Faulkner

Isabelle Faulkner

Papercuts

This story is about friendship and conflict, portrayed through the characters Naomi and Kiyo, their friendship turns sour when Naomi cannot contain her jealousy and sets out to destroy Kiyo's peice of origami resulting in an ugly dispute, hurting one another tremendously, it is only when they face the consequences of their actions that they realize how wrong they were and choose to show kindness and compassion to mend their friendship.

My inspiration for this production

I have been a huge fan of Studio Ghibli animations since I was a child and it bewildered me to see flawed characters become better versions of themselves by the end of the movie. I was also inspired by the storytelling and wholesomeness of previous major projects such as 'Kinship' and 'Yellow'.

My objective

The purpose of this project is to tell an entertaining story that explores behaviors of children and how their actions impact others, this story teaches the importance of empathy and encourages the audience to examine their own behaviors and build healthier relationships.

The team

Background Designs - Elizabeth Bognar

Story Treatment And Storyboarding - Silas O'Reilly

Audio - Michael Wellings

Colour Artist - Kate Grubelich

Animator/Character Design - Isabelle Faulkner

Vertical-slice For Papercuts

Isabelle_Faulkner_Papercuts.mp4

This is the scene where the characters are introduced to the audience with Naomi focusing on creating the perfect piece of origami before proudly showing it off to Kiyo.

Character Concept Art

Naomi

Naomi is presented as very ambitious, competitive and boastful. This confident facade breaks down when she becomes jealous and insecure, she manages to overcome these flaws once she acknowledges how her actions have negatively impacted her friendship becoming a more compassionate person.

Kiyo

Kiyo is portrayed as a quiet, humble and the typical "well behaved" child, but when his humbleness is tested by Naomi he acts out in anger because of his sensitivity, yet he manages to overcome his anger when also seeing the effects of his actions and reverts back to his calm compassionate self.

This was my original concept piece, I've made a few changes to Kiyo as well as their role in the story.

Silas O'Reilly - Film

Papercuts Treatment

storyboard

The story treatment and story boarding that was created in Pre production for this project.

Elizabeth Bognar - Design

These are just some of the scenes that are finalized for the final production of this animation, origami patterns being the most iconic and unique selling point of the designs.

Title and pattern creation

Final Product Animation Process

test2.wmv

I did some warm up practice animations before getting into production, using video references of myself doing the actions and learning how to use Toon boom Harmony.

This rough animation includes the continuation of my vertical slice.

Collaborative Work

Creating a character design based off of this artwork by Hayden Fryer

transferable skills.mp4

This is an educational animation I created in a collaboration with students from Melbourne on Transferable skills.

Previous Works

Alienation

This was my studio 2 project from last tri

Members of my team

The design was created by Elizabeth Bognar and my audio was produced by Anthony Munich, Lewis Ricketts and Ewan Colvin

Final_Alienation_IsabelleFaulkner.mp4

Some short story telling animations

Absentminded_smile.mp4

jacket_1.mp4

blossomtree_1.mp4

Contact Info

Thank you so much for watching my animation story come to life! If you really like the animations and would like me to create something with a unique sense of style feel free to contact me or check out the following links!

Email: isabellefaulkner99@gmail.com

Portfolio/blog: https://isabellefaulkner99.wixsite.com/website-2

Instagram name: XialophoneToast

Hope you've enjoyed my animations!

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