The SINGING GARDEN
The Singing Garden is a start-up musical education show for
Christian families and homeschooled homes seeking a world class music education, one that seeks to teach children music as a language from a young age, developing perfect pitch, and a voice for worship. I began working for this LLC after graduating from Montreat College, where my former musical voice instructor, Bryce Lupoli, founded the idea that would become
The Singing Garden.
The Pitch
The idea was to create a Blue's Clue's meets Veggie-tales style show, with a live action host interacting with a fully animated background and characters, including the Solfège Seeds, the main characters of the series who would need to be designed to be both iconic and naturally beautiful, matching with the serene beauty of the Garden itself.
MY ROLE
Bryce came to me with really only a visual concept and a few ideas for how the world of the Garden would look, leaving me as the primary art director for this project. I worked closely alongside Bryce as an illustrator and concept artist to ensure that the Garden came to match the dream within his head.
EARLY CONCEPT ART
Early Character Design
Logo Concepts
Many of my roles eventually extended post-filming of the pilot series, including animating all characters and backgrounds, video editing the entire series, from RAW footage to finished product, and designing the logo and pitch deck for use of marketing. I was incredibly happy to work alongside such a talented team of people, including Sio Tepper, composer of the series, and Zach Dasher and his production studio.
Test footage and Animatics
THE RESULTS
The final result was a complete two episode pilot series and collateral pitch deck, to be shopped around to various production houses and investors by Lupoli himself. I myself left the project during this period to pursue other professional endeavors and it remains one of the most rewarding professional journeys of my career.
Finished Show Intro
Show trailer
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