The Afterlife is the biggest market you would ever find. Souls of the dead and creatures go alongside each other to offer a good pass through death, before some can go back to life once they trade their soul for a new one. You lost your eye while you're alive? Certainly you can fine a new one here! It's full of magnificent buildings and guides ready to assist you. Sadly, the only way to get here is by being a supernatural creature, or by being dead.

THE AFTERLIFE / FINISHED ANIMATION BRIEF.

by: Ruth Perala and Daniela L. Martinez Valladares

Our project started off as a regular short film, but ended up as a short animated music video after getting the Okay from Omid to make it happen. We were lucky to be able to use AmaLee’s song Kaibutsu for the finished product, though we were a bit saddened to have to let go our chosen voice actor, Crystal Lee, who was originally going to be voicing The Girl.

THE TREATMENT:Logline.The Mysterious Girl wakes up in a dreamland and is pulled by a mysterious individual, Angelo, to a world for the dead.Programs.The programs used to make this project possible are: ToonBoom Harmony, Clip Studio Paint EX, Adobe Photoshop.

SYNOPSIS:The Afterlife is the biggest market you would ever find. Souls of the dead and creatures go alongside each other to offer a good pass through death, before some can go back to life once they trade their soul for a new one. You lost your eye while you're alive? Certainly you can fine a new one here! It's full of magnificent buildings and guides ready to assist you. Sadly, the only way to get here is by being a supernatural creature, or by being dead.This story starts with a young girl accidentally stumbling into an unknown place, almost as if she just woke up in a dreamland. She is surrounded by clouds and before her stands an unknown male figure with a mask on his face, reaching his hand out to her.Hesitantly, she reaches out her own hand and decides to follow this stranger that seemed to be there to greet her almost too coincidentally. He pulls her through a reddish brown gate, after which he disappears and she finds herself in an unknown city, surrounded by unknown creatures and people.Scared, she starts running forward, trying to find somebody that could help her figure out just what is going on. She finds a place named The Afterlife and decides to enter, but before she has the chance to ask for help, a strange looking young boy with a fish bowl as a head starts pestering her. Freaked out, she quickly pulls away. This is when the shop owner, Name, a strange man with pointy ears, lets out a sigh, knowing that he is going to be needed.Together with Name and the fish boy, Uni, the girl starts looking for answers as to how did she end up in a place for the dead if she, in fact, has not died.It is an adventurous story with a lot of potential and fun characters. In the video we catch glimpses of other background characters such as the restaurant owner and the black market seller.After the finishing scene with the trio walking through the city, the credits start appearing on screen.

The Mysterious Girl - A Human
The girl is the main character of the story. She appears to be quite freaked out after suddenly appearing in a land meant for the dead, feeling more concerned about how she got there in the first place rather than figuring out how to stay there. She is constantly on the move, trying to find somebody that would be able to help her. She wears a look of concern and confusion on her face majority of the time, sometimes even a bit disgusted with the things she is seeing.

Name - The ShinigamiShinigami are Japanese Death Gods or Death Spirits. They are akin to the Grim Reaper in many ways, however these supernatural beings may be somewhat less frightening and they arrived later on the folklore scene. Shinigami have also transformed their unique role in Japanese culture over the centuries.Name is the shop’s owner and one of the three main characters. He sells all sorts of things, including eyes, fingers and other random body parts that someone in need might want to buy.He is a rather grumpy and exhausted individual who just can’t seem to catch a moment of peace to himself. Name does not have memories of who he used to be, all he knows is that he got his name after finding a random name plate on the ground with ”Name” written on it. And here we are.

Angelo
Angelo is a mysterious individual that we see being the person to drag The Girl through the gate of The Afterlife. He disappears right after and we don’t see him again afterwards in the animation. Could it be that he is the one with the answers?

Uni - Fish Boy
Uni is a young boy with a fish bowl as a head. He is often pestering Name, asking him a lot of unnecessary questions and bothering all of his customers. Needless to say, Name is quite fed up with his antics. Uni tags along with Name and The Girl for her search for answers.

In the animation, we see a brief glimpse of the following three characters. Amongst them is the Black Market Seller, but we do not see much of what he is up to, just him wearing a rather mischievous grin on his face once he appears on the screen.