NIGHT ISLAND

Animated Short film

A merchant ship navigates through a terrible storm. Onboard a young girl tries to save her cat from being washed overboard. But a wave takes them both and they are swept into the sea. Waking up on a desolate beach, the girl encounters strange creatures that tempt her to stay on the mysterious island. In order to find her way back to her father's ship she must liberate the music trapped in the undertow of the Night Island.
Short listed for Oscars for best animated short on 2011

Chopin Etude Opus 25 No.10

Composed by Fryderyk Chopin

Performed by Lang Lang

Written and Directed by Salvador Maldonado

Produced by Crystal Compton & Hugh Welchman

Breakthru films

CREDITS

 

CHARACTER DESIGN - Liliana Kalnakova, Agnete Todd.
LEAD ANIMATORS - Peter Dodd, James Duveen, Allan Fernandez, Sam Taylor, Simon Swales,
Gie Santos, Janusz Martyn, Liliana Kalnakova and Crystal Compton.
ASSISTANT ANIMATORS - Moe Sugiyama, Patrick Lerwill, Denise Dean, Panagiota Chadogiannou,
Valentina Grasso, Veselina Dashinova, Kate Springfield, Jack Davies and Lorraine Ward.
CG ANIMATION - Ville Nevalainen, Zakarias Boumediane
LAYOUT ARTIST - Victoria Kitchingham
LEAD COMPOSITOR - Salvador Maldonado.
COMPOSITOR - Hajeet Bains

ADDITIONAL ANIMATION - Chris Cray, Dilara Arin, Camilla Lunn, Mark Island and Melody Compton
AFFECTS & WATER ANIMATION - Kate Springfield
DIGITAL INK & PAINT - Ermeson Viera, Sarah Murphy, Nubya Garcia, Yui Hamagashira, Alexander King and Agnete S. Todd.
MATTE PAINTING- Agnete S. Todd, Marcus Jose and Thomas Hebdon.
SCRIPT EDITOR- Robin Todd
EDITOR & STORYBOARD- Salvador Maldonado
MILO'S MODEL- Lea Ferlauto
SOUND DESIGNER - Joseph Stracey

 
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This is the line test of some of the Character animation, the film was all drawn on paper and pencil first. then it was scanned, clean, traced and colour in Photoshop frame by frame, and finally composited in After Effects.

Official Selection Festivals:

 

WORK MENU

Under ANIMATION you can find all the story-based form like animated documentaries, short films or character-based animation. In MOTION DESIGN all the animated infographics and explainers vector-based. In COMPOSITING you will find all the Advertisement, Promos, Explainer Educational series using archived images, footage or CG. Under DESIGN there are some of the designs, concepts and Art Direction I have created for my animations