It’s 1972, and a small-town girl (Vickie) is accepted into the prestigious National Ballet School and selected to play “Clara” in the Company’s holiday production of The Nutcracker. Unfortunately that’s when Vickie finds out about the mysterious “Curse of Clara”, which threatens to derail everything. Thankfully, she’s got a good friend, the 1972 Summit Series and an imaginary mentor (in the form of Phil Esposito) to keep her “on pointe.” Starring Saara Chaudry, Sara Botsford, Sheila McCarthy, Karen Kain, Bob Cole, and Phil Esposito.
Winner of the 2017 Canadian Screen Award for Best Animated Program.
The Logo
The logo design process:
The final design:
The Website
The main requirement for the website was that it needed to represent the short film and be festive. I decided to use the storyboard backgrounds as inspiration for each page, and to make the site more immersive, I separated the backgrounds into layers (foreground, middle, background) and added a bit of parallax to them. I also added additional effects (leaves, snow, dust).
