The Tragic Life of a Fishman
Director | Writer | Story Artist | Concept Artist | Animator | Clean-up & Colour Artist | 3D Layout | Compositor
- Premiered at MIAF 2024 -

The very first sketches of Fishman and Womanfish

A 2.5D (2D Characters, 3D Backgrounds) Animated Short Film created as a graduate project with a team of 25 artists.
Fish: slimy, slippery, not good at walking, terrible at keeping a job. Men: ideally dry, usually walk to get around, need a job to live. Fishman: the worst combination of the two. He fails at everything he does, usually due to his fishy fins in place of hands and feet, the stench of his fishy head, or his general fishy slipperiness. Nothing goes right for him – getting ready in the morning, walking down a street, and going to work all end in catastrophe… Until he finds his perfect match in a river creature called Womanfish. He looks into her human eyes, holds her fishy body, and slides a shiny ring onto her dainty human hand. Maybe his life isn’t so tragic after all.
ofFISHial Trailer
CONCEPT ART
Character designs for Fishman and Womanfish

Storyboards
My favourite excerpts from the storyboards | Created in ToonBoom Storyboard Pro

My storyboard work on Fishman - not the final boards. The thumbnails on the right were given to my storyboard team so that they could choose the shots that interested them, while having thumbnails to work from.
Animation
Roughs, Revisions, Clean-up, Colour, and Lighting
Work done by me unless stated otherwise in the captions
Animated in ToonBoom Harmony























