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Tendril
Keinon

A passion project that pays tribute to classic anime movies, while honing Tendril’s unique in-house art style.

This project was born out of our love for game cinematics and our desire to showcase our strength in character animation. Everything in this film is original — from concept, characters, environments to the smallest details of the protagonists’ fashion and choice of weaponry. In order to create this cinematic, we dove deep into the creation of the entire storyworld of Keinon. The sound design was brought to life by our long-time collaborator CYPHER.

Below is a glimpse into the backstory we imagined — perhaps one day we’ll bring the full story to life. The hero of our story is Keinon, an abandoned orphan raised by a Ronin (a Samurai without a master) to fight an ancestral curse. Centuries ago, Keinon’s ancestor — greedy King Aram — forged a pact with a demon, promising all his blood descendants in return for control over the Empire. Upon reaching a certain age, his descendants begin transforming into demons. Keinon’s face and limbs have already turned and it is now a race against time as the only cure to this curse would be to defeat King Aram’s army…

Process

Credits

Client
Tendril

Creative Directors
Christopher Bahry & Alexandre Torres

Executive Producer
Sarah Arruda

Director
Vini Nascimento

Producer
Ryan MacLean

Coordinator
Brittany Sheahan

Art Director
Vini Nascimento

Concept Art
Rodrigo Rezende, Vini Nascimento,
Marcelo Souza, Runbo Chen,
Marco Teixeira

Storyboard
Charline Parisot, Runbo Chen

CG Supervisor
Ben Pilgrim

Modelling
Ben Pilgrim, Christian Hecht,
Runbo Chen, Vini Nascimento,
Alexandre Veaux, Eric Macedo,
Rodrigo Rezende

Rigging
Tyrel Scott

Lead Animator
Will Sharkey

Animation
Will Sharkey, Charline Parisot

FX
Peter Sanitra, Igor Ivanov,
Tyrel Scott, Alexandre Veaux, Will Sharkey,
Flavio Diniz, Eric Macedo, Samuel Bohn

Lead Lookdev and Lighting
Alexandre Veaux

Look Development
Alexandre Veaux, Christian Hecht,
Marcelo Souza

Compositing
Alexandre Veaux, Christopher Bahry,
Brad Husband

Sound Design
CYPHER

Titles
Gabriel Rocha, Rodrigo Rezende

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