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Films with Force and Vision
Films with Force and Vision
Violence within the home can devastate a country’s values. Saudi Arabia was indexed as a country with the highest rates of domestic violence in the middle east, until a 2019 initiative was made by Saudi women to flip the script. So, we were asked to partner with Dalyah Bakheet and her team to help end the violence done to women and children in Saudi Arabia.
Through pre-production efforts of storyboarding and character design, we were able to weave together several domestic survival stories we called “vignettes”. The final product is a sobering, visceral depiction of the Arabian world that many women and children endure.
In an effort to ensure that the characters, narration, and emotions are all composed correctly, we developed an animated storyboard to help guide our animation team toward our creative vision.
Using grey-monotones as the overall direction proved to be challenging when trying design these characters. We had to slip in colors of blue, yellow, red, and green in the environment in order to correctly convey the emotions their story was associated with.
We designed several frames of compositions that acted as a stage for our animation team add motion and sound.
The eerie animations elevated each illustrated vignette in an effort to depict the Saudi's world as a dark, dismal children's storybook.
While this video has been acknowledged by the Saudi Arabian Civil Rights community as a whole, the story won several small awards and a nomination at the 2019 Annecy Film Festival, while also being awarded a grant.
Grant Winner
Annecy Perspectives Award
"We hired Endure for an animated film, and they went above and beyond our expectations. They always responded with amazing communication all the time, and they are really one of the best groups I worked with. We highly recommended them."
