Production: Skelly

Medium: 2D Animatic/Animated Pilot

Logline: Sarah Kazner, a thirty-something high-achieving Black woman who’s unraveling in silence, discovers a skeleton who lives in her closet and runs a bar in there. Skelly explores grief, corporate burnout, and mental health through a surreal, chaotic, and heartfelt lens.

Director: Kayla Davis

My Role: Production Coordinator

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When I joined Skelly mid-production, I had the opportunity to craft the production guide from scratch. Using a blend of ideas and templates I’ve worked with on previous projects, I created the guide above to fit the established workflow of the project and introduce a comprehensive one-stop-shop for a look at the pilot’s progression.

This pilot is organized sequence by sequence rather than shot by shot, with work being assigned with time stamps instead of shot numbers, making the DURATION section very useful to the animators.

The pilot’s animation pipeline tracks from the storyboard stage to final composite, but only a handful of shots are being fully finished for the release. Given the deadline and budget, the goal is a mixed animatic-animation that features both cleaned-up animation alongside fully colored and composited animation with backgrounds. I set up the progress bars that track each stage’s completion in real-time. It counts every step for each sequence depending on its final stage, so the percentages at the top accurately show the episode’s progress.

This production guide saved the project thousands of dollars, reduced confusion about assignments and production information, and was introduced to potential investors to provide the pilot’s status and gain funding.