JADE LIESSA WHELDON

ANIMATION DIRECTOR:
MOTHER OF THE FOREST: CURUPIRA

Scripting, storyboarding, character design, initial animations and illustrations for this 5 minutes animated short found in feature documentary Mother of the Forest Curupira. In collaboration with Illustrator Betty Simons Denville and animator Giulia Bavagnoli.

TITLE SEQUENCE:
ALEXANDER: MAKING OF A GOD

Moving, hand illustrated titled and font for Netflix’s latest drama documentary on the life story of Alexander the Great.

SCROLLING AFTER EFFECTS DIGITAL PROP
THE SERENGETI RULES

After designing a series of scientific papers as physical props, I was asked to create them scrolling and scrubbing, with moving images replacing the pictures, and text animating in as if being typed in real time. This was then projected onto glass on set during the master interview with Sean B. Caroll.