ANANSI and NOTHING (for African Folklore Explained by Jon Solo)
I was lucky enough to work with Jon Solo again for his Folklore Explained series and this ocassion with a African tale called Anansi and Nothing, in this one I took the opportunity to study the work of Tartakovsky and Scott Wills and I ended up learning a LOT of shape language and texture use among other things so...
Thanks again, Jon Solo and Alejandro Pinzón @aguacate_magullado for animated my illustrations
SCENE 1: Anansi tricks Nothing into changing outfits
Scene 2: Nobody pays attention to Nothing, no one except Amara.
Scene 3: Nothing takes Amara to his palace and the Anansi new wives realize who he really is
Scene 4: Nothing gives everything to Amara but Anansi has nothing to give
Scene 5: Anansi's wives flee to Nothing's palace and Anansi takes revenge
Scene 6: The death of Nothing
Scene 7: They are crying for Nothing
Anansi
Nothing and Amara sketches
Anansi's wives sketches
Some explorations of style
To see the whole project animated and hear the full story narrated in spectacular quality watch this