Shadow Fae will be an animated short in 1920 x 1080. My plans are to complete it in Photoshop.
Synopsis
Wisteria is a fairy living at the edge of a large, dense forest where people rarely venture. There are multiple fairy colonies within it, and the story opens with her visiting friends living in a colony close to the center of the woods. At the center is the lair of the monstrous Shadow Fae, a place that is feared and avoided by typical fairies. Wisteria has always been fascinated by the stories about the Shadow Fae, and sneaking out of her friends’ colony late at night, she decides to go meet them. When she does, she discovers something that none of the other fairies suspected about the deformed creatures – though it isn’t what everyone else might think.
Concepts
The concept for Shadow Fae came to me during a storyboard brainstorming session. The storyboard itself is yet unrealized, but I still have the written description of the action for each panel. When imagining the fairies in the short, an image that stuck with me for the main character was of a fairy from a previous project I drafted while learning how to animate in Photoshop. An animated GIF derived from it is above! Thus was born the idea for this fairy becoming the protagonist of Shadow Fae, Wisteria.