My rendition of an animation trend called “Sinking Town”. This animation is designed to resemble a carboard cut out puppet show and follows the “weird route” from the game Deltarune.
Year - 2025
Storyboards
Using inspiration from the sinking town animation meme trend and chilling storyline from Deltarune’s weird route, I created these storyboards as a baseline for this project.
I used the set dressing of a puppet theatre as control and lack of bodily autonomy are the main themes and driving narrative behind this route in the game.
I broke down the narrative into four different scenes to time with the music and create a short form version of the story without dialogue, allowing any viewer to understand the content without needing the full context from the game itself.
Final Assets
Using my storyboards as a baseline, I finalised all of the assets needed for animation. To keep in line with the puppet theatre aesthetic I added cardboard outlines to each of the seperated assets and textures onto their base colours.
I felt these were super successful in keeping everything consistent and elevated the final project.