Hi! This is Joseph Angelo Cartaño, a 4th year AB-Animation student from De La Salle- College of Saint Benilde, Manila, Philippines. I am majoring in 2d animation with a huge interest in taking part on pre-production stages for professional animations in the future. I am currently in the middle of the production stage of my thesis project, Madman Diaries: Blood, Blade, Balloon.
Madman Diaries officially started as an animation short project in mid September 2011. It came out by it's pre-production name, 'Hide and Seek' which plot mainly revolves around a teen age guy who's been haunted by the ghost of his past and eventually travels into various false dimensions made up in his head only to find out the truth about his twin brother's death towards the end.
During the story building stages of this project, it garnered mixed reviews/comments from my friends and mentors. Many liked how the story was told but there are also some point of views which doesn't agree of how the mystery was being unfolded and found it too confusing.
To reach out to a larger audience, with the help of my mentors, I developed the story into something not too far from the original concept but with a clearer vision of the story and more interesting character development arc posed by its main protagonist.
Now, the project has been running into full completion by its new title, Madman Diaries: Blood, Blade, Balloon, a psycho-horror-fantasy-thriller that centers around the story of a British-Korean teen age boy named Finn Lee (or Lee Baek Yeol in Korean) who suffers from a mental breakdown years after the tragic death of his twin brother, Nigel Lee (Lee Wang Kyu). After being sent to a mental institution by his mother, Finn travels into worlds beyond reality and finds himself in a journey towards madness.
This is all for now. I'll dig further with the story and the characters in my future posts. :)
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