"The Reward - Tales of Alethrion" on Kickstarter!

The Reward has launched a Kickstarter campaign to seek funding for a series!

We want to make the Reward an animated series, and with your help we can make it happen! Support the campaign by visiting the Kickstarter page, pledge as much as you want, and recieve one of many awesome pledge rewards if we reach our goal!

"The Reward - Tales of Alethrion" will expand on the world of The Reward and the stories of the heroes that inhabit it. The money will be used to fund the first of many episodes - details of how the money is spend can be found in the page description.

Kickstarter trailer:


Click here to go to the Kickstarter!

Welcome

Welcome to The Reward blog page.

The Reward is a wordless 2D animation short, directed by Mikkel Mainz Ekljær and Kenneth Ladekjær in artistic collaboration with Glenn August, Jonas Andreassen, Josefine Hannibal, Karen Bennetzen, Ole Christian Loken, Paolo Giandoso and Tanja Nielsen.

The team worked on this project at The Animation Workshop's Bachelor Educations (located in Viborg, Denmark) in 2011/2012 during their final year at the University, as part of their Bachelor Thesis.

The Map!

Background Test - Sunset Beach

Drahloque Concept

Look of Film

Testing effects and camera movement

animated magic light beam test from The Reward film on Vimeo.

Vito shooting a light-beam from his staff.

Untitled from The Reward film on Vimeo.




Different camera movements and methods to achieve them on a great treebranch. This scene is cut out of the film so far though.




Approved color script for the film

The color script is divided into two columns - where each row consists of two images. They should be read from left to right.

Character design for our Main Characters

Character design for thugs

Character designs for background characters

Creatures

Color script, 2nd pass

Light script for The Reward

The Directors - Hard at work

Character Design

Environment Designs

Early Sketches