the ART OF goodbye Kepler
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FOREWORD We have reached the end of this cycle. I would not like these lines to sound as if I were saying goodbye but instead, I would like to acknowledge the effort and brilliant work of this year’s Seniors. It has been an honour and a pleasure working with them all these years but it has also been a daily challenge trying to transmit the necessary knowledge in order to prepare them for the challenges that they will come across from this moment on in this profession that they have chosen. I am positive that they will continue to learn and develop every day just as they have done here. I am also sure that their education will enable them to overcome any problems that they might encounter. We are all proud to be part of their careers from the beginning. We would like to be remembered with affection in the future and although our main duty was to teach the subjects, we also tried to instil our love for this profession in them. Without it, it is not easy to survive in such a competitive and hard profession. We would feel very satisfied if we have accomplished this goal. This art-book shows the genius that has given shape to their final project. I am sure that readers will enjoy this book when they read it, just as we did while it was being made. This book is proof of the group’s talent and the promise that they will surprise us with the quality of their future works. I would like to wish the students good luck in their new life and I would also like them to know that DigiPen Bilbao will give them all the support they need in the future. I hope that they will not forget us soon, or better still, never. Best wishes.
Carlos Varela. Head of BFA department. DigiPen Bilbao
Table of contents Introduction ...............................................................................................................................9 Storyboards ............................................................................................................................... 13 Color Script .............................................................................................................................. 17 Character design: Haley ............................................................................................. 21 Character design: Lur...................................................................................................... 33 Backgrounds .............................................................................................................................. 41 Credits ............................................................................................................................................. 69
The team * David Modroño * Iraia Yarto * Nerea Ayala * Patricia Fañanás
The idea came with a specific sensation in mind: a night in a calm summer, one with a nostalgic tint to it and the feeling of freedom reminescent of when you where a child. From that idea the feeling stayed, but the story we were about to tell contrasted with it grately. We played arround with the emotion of grief but felt through the lens of being a child, and how they might react to it. At first we were thinking of depicting a grantparent but then we decided it would make more sense to make it about a chilhood pet. We had the feeling, the idea we wanted to talk about and an aesthetic that came from all of or collective lived experiences from chillhood. From that point on, it was all about writting an engaging journey for the main character to go on.
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Haley is the typical kid that can’t sit still and is covered in bruises she doesn’t know how she got. Later we realized she definitely would be a nerd about dinosaurs, animals and space so we tried to incorporate those traits into her outfit mixing them with what we used to wear at that age.
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For Lur we wanted a big, happy dog that loves playing and has an extreme amount of patience. Lur and Haley have been bestfriends since Haley’s birth and Haley always tries to be matching with Lur so that means Lur gets similar accessories to the ones Haley wears. Lur’s collar is also decorated by Haley. 37
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For the interior scenes we were inspired by the farmhouses that exist all over Bizkaia called baserri. We came up with the idea that this house was the grandparents’ house but had been renovated and had a mixture of old and new things while maintaining that old house feeling. The entrance hall and kitchen are a perfect example of that.
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In contrast, Haley's room and the bathroom we see her washing her hands in, have been taken over by her. She doesn't live in this house but she visits enough to have her own space decorated to her liking. All the posters, plushies and the fish in the bathroom are a perfect example. However there are items like the old radio that show that this is still her grandparent's old house.
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Being in a small town Haley is surrounded by fields and nature while still being near the house. We took inspiration again in Bizkaia, its towns and nature to make all the scenes of the field.
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The veterinary is probably the biggest change in the short film. We go from the warmth of the house to a creepy hospital mood. Haley is in a complicated situation. Her best friend is ill and she doesn’t know whether Lur’s going to make it or not. We wanted the ambience to reflect that aseptic and lonely feeling hospitals usually have in this situations.
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Props
Kepler
Goodbye Kepler, a shortfilm by: Nerea Ayala Patricia Fañanas David Modroño Iraia Yarto
President Claude Comair
Music Irune Ayala David Modroño
Special thanks Coco, Maze, Perdi Hiru, Mendi, Izki Our family and friends Digipen staff
Teachers Jon Bazo Gerardo Basabe
Artbook Saray Ramiro Tipography: Nerea Ayala
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