JaidenAnimations the Anime - Music Video
At the end of January 2021, Jaiden announced to us in the animation team that she was planning an anime intro video. Starting with a meeting with primarily us storyboarders of the team, she revealed the in-progress 1min 30sec English version of the song as well as her concept boards for the video.
Seeing as most of the team at the time did not have the short film production experience as I did, I immediately jumped into organizing production to ease the process.
After pitching ideas developing her initial concept as a group and doing some anime intro research with the help of YouTube and Sakugabooru, I wrote a script after a few treatments and organized shots based on tone and complexity.
Afterwards, we further developed Jaiden's character designs and the layout of the scenes.
Designs developed with Jaiden Dittfach, AtroxChobatsu, Tiffany Seng, DavidBaronArt
Once the final script treatment and designs were approved, I developed production materials like the shot sheet and work calendar to mark progress.
Like for the rest of the storyboarding team, I chose individual shots based on my strengths.
You can check out the full posted animatic here.
I made some guides based on my management of layouts and animation exports, to make sure the background artist and compositor received their files correctly.
The video ended up being posted within a short time from Jaiden hitting 10 million subscriptions on Youtube in June 2021, and accrued now over 15 million views.