THE HUNT - Visual Development
The Hole

The Hole

BG Painting by Léa Pinto
AD: Diogo Costa

BG Painting by Léa Pinto
AD: Diogo Costa

For The Hunt we had to define an entire visual language to tell our forest apart from all the other forest we've seen in film before. Everything was designed - from the tree trunks to a single blade of grass. Here's some of the individual elements designed for the film.

Art Director/Design
https://www.artstation.com/diogocosta
Background Painter
https://www.artstation.com/l-pinto

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The Hunt is an animated short film written and directed by Diogo Costa in his cinematic debut.
The film is produced by COLA Animation and Studio Kimchi, and co-produced by Studio Unkai and Blauw Films.
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The film had its world premiere at the Lisbon International Horror Film Festival (MotelX) where it competed for Méliès d'argent - Best European Short and had its international premiere at the Sitges Film Festival where it competed for Oscar-qualifying "Anima't - Curts Session".
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