The story.

The story of Herbert started from a small accordion style booklet I made in a book binding class. The book was to show a progression on each page. My progression was of an elephant coming into the frame to find some balloons, tie them to himself, then fly away with the balloons.

After finding this book I developed a more elaborate story of this elephant floating away with these balloons.

I then went on to write a short story about Herbert (using it for my Creative Writing class). This turned into the dialog used in my movie.

Each one of the images are hand drawn by myself with slight Photoshop to crop and add different objects to each picture.

I wanted this movie to seem as if you are having a children's book read to you.
Herbert and I have traveled four months together and I am very happy to have finally finished this movie!

Final Images

The final cut images that will be appearing in the move!!

Images for movie

A few images that will be used for the movie.

3D Prop

All though I made this, it will not be used in the movie. It was an interesting experience to work with the program MAYA.

Puppet Rigging

Used Adobe Aftereffects.

Finished Walking Sequence

Herbert is winking at you! Photoshop was used to create this.

Walking Sequence

Drawings for a walking sequence.

Concept art

Concept art for the movie. All hand drawn and scanned onto the computer

Elliot the Gazelle

Ava the Giraffe

Neil the Lion

Ivy the Zebra

Herbert the Elephant