THINKLE

ROLES

Director

Writer

Concept artist

Character designer

Storyboard artist

3D sculptor

Texture artist

2D animator

Compositor

Editor


PROJECT

Thinkle (2024) 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





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AWARDS

Rai Cinema Channel

Mompeo International Film Festival

Babbaluci Film Festival

Esen Studios

RUFA on Screen







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TRAILER


CONCEPT ART

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.

BACKGROUND DESIGN

The door-studded hallway.

The psychologist’s office

CHARACTER DESIGN

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 ANIMATION

2D VFX created in Toon Boom Harmony.

3D SCULPTING + TEXTURING

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.

TEXTURING