I was hired by The Ballet Club, a ballet studio in NYC that emphasizes individuality, creativity, and focused learning, to create a 22-min long animated video that tells the story of ballet. This video was designed to educate and inspire both children and adults about the history of ballet, the ballet experience, ballet class, and famous ballets like Sleeping Beauty. The videos were then incorporated into The Ballet Club's class curriculum. I was given a written outline of what should happen and then tasked with storyboarding, illustrating, animating, editing, and rendering the video. For this project, I created over 210 illustrations using Illustrator. See the animations here.
Map of Italy
Louis XIV with Baby Ballet on his shoulders
Baby Ballet growing up
Ballet Shoes, musical instruments, and paint
King Louis XIV dancing as Apollo
King Louis XIV in the Palace of Versailles
Marie Camargo raising her skirts and dancing
Marie Taglioni one of the first ballet dancers to dance in pointe shoes
Marie Taglioni dancing as a faerie
Faerie ballet dancers dancing in a pair of pointe shoes
Map of Russia
The Imperial Theatre
Sleeping Beauty, pas de deux
Swan Lake, Dance of the Little Swans
Sleeping Beauty title.
Catalabutte, the Master of Ceremonies, forgot to send an invitation to Carabosse.
Carabosse is angry a not receiving an invitation to the party and decides to come to the party anyway and seek revenge.
All the faeries of the land are invited to the party.
The ballet act seconds before curtain close in Sleeping Beauty.
Princess Aurora and the Prince bow at the end of their ballet performance.
People relaxing by the Revson Lincoln Center fountain.
Ballet dancers performing in front of the Revson Lincoln Center fountain.
Taxis dropping people off at Lincoln Center.
-View of people walking around the Metropolitan Opera House, David Geffen Hall, and Plaza from the second-floor balcony of the David H. Hick Theater
The shoes of people walking to the ballet.
Filled hall of Metropolitan Opera House waiting to see the ballet.
Living painting of La Camargo dancing by Nicolas Lancret.
Living painting of Marie Taglioni by Chalon and Lane and Bouquet of Flowers by Odilon Redon.
Living painting of several images including Spanish spray paint art, Starry Night Over the Rhone by Vincent Van Gogh, and Over the Town by Marc Chagall.