song credit: Nils Frahm- My Friend The Forest
Green Thumb illustrates the beauty of nature and growing a garden both metaphorically and physically. The style treatment is simple and clean with gentle texture and pacing, matching the tone and speed of the script. The illustrative design compliments the beauty and emotion of the theme using abstract and surreal morphing imagery with a combination of frame by frame animation and illustration assets to showcase the subjects and metaphors in the poem.
Objective
The objective of the story and message I want to communicate for this motion piece is the healing properties of gardening. The act of gardening is very meditative, focusing and caring for your plants, growing a garden of your own is enlightening. This poem has a double meaning as a metaphor for our own life and the future we envision for ourselves. The tone of the script is soft and somber, I wanted the words to simply be heard as they are, and the visuals to support the context with more surreal and abstract interpretations.
