Alone in the Darkness
2024 Siamés Music Video
Role: Scripting, initial character concepts, and storyboards with a board partner (selected pieces below are my own sections.)
At MAKE, boards also includes putting together the animatic edit.
Opening to the Music Video.
Rough character exploration, with a focus on gender ambiguity.
FINAL VIDEO:
Sunny Side Down
An original microseries directed for MAKE Originals.
Sunny Side Down is about a tiny diner hanging inexplicably in front of a supermassive black hole... and the alien customers unlucky enough to get sucked in.
6 shorts, 2 minutes each to be released in 2025.
Early beatboards.
Episode 1 Sunny Side Down (Boarded solo)
Episode 5 animatic (story lead, board revisions assisted by Andy Bella)
Lightbox Expo ‘24 Socials Campaign
A series of short social spots designed to highlight the personalities of the three main mascots for Lightbox Expo, which are three creative, colorful spirits of pure light.
Mythic Co.
An upcoming MAKE Originals series where I was brought on to help with scripting, plus beatboards to show the character's relationships and potential staging.
Classic office comedy with a medieval fantasy creature twist.
Creator
(a personal short film)
Worked on for about 5 years, originating as a student thesis and evolving into what it is now.
Final Short (To be released Fall 2025, after festival circuit.)
Thanks for looking~!
You can reach me at nataliapoteryakhin@gmail.com.
