Selected Work — Motion Design
Kite fighting over a Brazilian neighborhood, drawn with dynamic lines, bright graphic shapes and strong compositions to show energy, tension, movement and competition.
Project Overview
Kite Fight turns a familiar rooftop game into a story about people: how we hold on, pull against each other, and finally let go.
Seven sequential frames follow one kite from the first unwinding of the string to a sky crowded with rivals. Made for young adults and anyone drawn to visual storytelling, motion design, culture and emotional narratives.
Make freedom, tension, struggle and connection felt, not explained.
Kite fighting as a metaphor: strings for connection and control, movement for struggle and release.
Seven key frames, motion tests and a 30 × 50 in process poster in a four-color graphic style.
Where it happens, and what’s at stake
The Fight
High above the city, the rooftops become an arena. A boy sends his kite into a sky full of rivals. There is only one rule: cut the other string before yours is cut.
Win the fight by cutting the opponent’s string.
Goal — victory, achievement, and a sense of freedom
The problem to solve
How do you make someone feel freedom, tension, struggle and connection, using nothing but the movement of a kite?
Communicate emotion through the movement and visual language of kite fighting
The idea behind every frame
Kite fighting becomes a metaphor for human relationships and emotions.
The design turns an abstract emotional experience into something you can understand through a familiar activity. You don’t read about tension and release here. You feel them in the kites.
Real kites, real rooftops
Kite Season
I started by looking at the real thing: kite festivals, rooftops packed with flyers, handmade kites and spools of string. I studied Brazilian neighborhoods and how kites are built, then built black-and-white environment studies to find the camera angles: rooftops, windows, spools and the view straight up.
Kite fighting
Environment studies
Finding the look
Line over fill
The mood board leaned on line: crossing strings, skylines reduced to bars, figures caught in a web of threads. Lines would carry the story, not detail.
Testing ideas in black and white
Black + White
Everything started as loose, quick, black-and-white line drawings: first string studies, then three rounds of storyboards. I explored:
String studies: how a single line can show pull, speed and collision.
First pass: finding the beats, from a single kite to a crowded sky.
Second pass: pushing camera angles and the moments between kites.
Third pass: widescreen teaser boards, the layout for the final frames.
These experiments decided how the strings would speak: Tension Flight Connection Competition
From pencil to motion, step by step
Sketch to Screen
The chosen sketches became a graphic language: four colors, simplified environments, and strings that carry the movement and connect each part of the frame.
Sketch
Line test
Motion
Final07.1 Palette
Four colors only. Green holds the world, yellow is always the string.
07.2 Line → Color
Line tests on flat color, then the move to the full green sky.
07.3 Before → After
Drag across a frame to turn the rough board into the final image.
07.4 Motion
Before the detailed frames, the strings were animated on their own: one line rising, a skyline building up, then a sky full of thread.
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01 Release The spool unwinds. One yellow string pours across the frame.
02 The City Christ the Redeemer above the city, already crossed by strings.
03 Flight One kite, one line. The calm before the fight.
04 Control The boy reads the wind and aims his line.
05 Connection The string runs through his fingers above the rooftops.
06 Tension Kites collide. Strings cross, tangle, cut.
07 Kite Fight The sky fills with rivals.
Process poster
30 × 50 in. The seven final frames as one sequence, with the concept, keywords, palette, mood board and process sketches underneath.
Looking back
Reflection
Kite Fight taught me how to turn an abstract idea into visual storytelling.
It strengthened my skills in composition, visual rhythm, line, movement and sequencing, and showed me how much emotional meaning a few simple visual elements can carry.
The sequence in motion
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