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.
Learn more about various sections of the video below!
Section 1: This section describes the experience of going to a ballet at Lincoln Center.
Section 2: This section describes ballets beginning in Italy and how ballet moved to France.
Section 3: Cats go to ballet class.
Section 5: This section describes the evolution of pointe shoes.
Section 7: Cat's in ballet class
Section 8: This artistic section interprets ballet as "living paintings."
Section 9: This section tells the story of Marius Petipa and Pyotr Tchaikovsky.
Section 10: This section describes Sleeping Beauty's prologue.
Section 11 and 12: These sections describe a fairy variation and the ending of a ballet performance at Lincoln Center.