Paper Boat carries a dream, cruising on hope

Drinks brand Paper Boat has launched an animated film, conceptualised and executed by Humour Me – Branded Entertainment. The film of 4 minutes and 25 seconds is titled ‘Hope, the Boat’.

 

The film tells the story of hope, manifest in a paper boat. A man in a sailor’s hat stares longingly at a picture showing ‘The Great Indian Cruise’. A sheet of paper blows in with the wind through an open window. He makes a paper boat from it, labels it ‘My Great Cruise’ and lets it afloat in a puddle on the road. The film thereafter follows the paper boat’s adventurous journey, through pleasant and not-so-pleasant times and climes, before it lands up in the ocean. There, the paper boat sees the dream cruise ship, and its creator sailing on it. He invites the paper boat to join the cruise, sailing behind the larger ship, alongside several others like it. The film ends with the message, ‘Every dream is a journey. May your paper boat carry you far.’       

 

The film went live on the brand’s YouTube channel on 13 September 2016.

 

Credits (via TouTube):

 

Concept and execution: Humour Me - Branded Entertainment 

Created: Dhruv Sachdeva

Directors: Dhruv Sachdeva, Clifford Afonso

Co-director: Tanvi Gandhi

Screenplay and story: Clifford Afonso, Dhruv Sachdeva, Aradhana Mathews

Executive producer: Ashray Sachdeva

Project head and client servicing: Gitana Singh

 

Sound score: Aradhana Mathews 

Sound score Arrangement & Sound Engineering: Anindo Bose 

Sound design: Anindo Bose, Zain Calcuttawala, Siddharth Talwar

Sound mixing and mastering: Plug N’ Play Studios

 

Animation project lead: Vrinda Sood

Animation direction: Zero Gravity Filmz

Film editor: Shubham Singla 

Production manager: Dhananjay Visvanath

 

Art direction: Tanvi Gandhi, Clifford Afonso 

Art supervisor: Akanksha Sharma 

Storyboard artist: Vaibhav 

Character design and illustration: Clayton Dmello, Varun Nair 

Environment illustration: Clayton Dmello

 

Modeling: Abhishek Soni, Ashish Negi, Bhairab Boithoque, Manoj Negi, Nishant Saxena

Surfacing: Abhishek Soni, Ashish Negi, Bhairab Boithoque, Tushar Tanwar, Nishant Saxena

Lighting: Tushar Tanwar, Ashish Negi, Nishant Saxena, Atique Mujawar

Rigging: Azhar Hussain Quadri

Layout and animation: Ashish Sharma, Gaganpreet Singh Anand, Raghav Nagpal

Effects: Azhar Hussain Quadri, Asif Ali

Render wrangler: Manoj Negi

Compositing: Shivam Sharma, Swatantra Dubey

Matte Painting: Swatantra Dubey, Bhairab Boithoque 

Render supervisor: Sachin Kolate

 

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