THINKLE - Chiara Amenta

PROJECT NAME

Thinkle

ROLE

Director

Writer

Concept artist

Character designer

Storyboard artist

3D sculptor

Texture artist

2D animator

Compositor

Editor

DATE

2024

Thinkle is an award-winning CGI short movie.

It recounts the story of a man in a long

door-studded hallway: a metaphorical place

inside his mind.

It’s time for him to come to terms with a past

that has been buried for years and will now resurface with the tinkling of keys.

FILM PROFILE

First pitch cover page

Clothes scattered on the floor concept.

First view at the pendulum clock

Family picture’s first view

Light study on a first version of Locke

First discarded concept of the wife’s door.

Concept for the first time we see Otho.

Concept for the father’s door

Limbo light study

Father’s discarded post-credit scene.

The door-studded hallway.

The psychologist’s office

Otho’s first design

First view of the psychologist

Elliot colorized vs Elliot’s shadow silhouette

A concept for Locke’s father.

Otho’s expression study

Lock and Otho’s poses

Elliot’s expression study

2D VFX created in Toon Boom Harmony.

Full view of Elliot’s sculpt and textures.

Elliot’s full body retopology.

Close-up of Elliot’s sculpt and textures.

Close-up of Elliot’s retopology.

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