Érase Una Vez

She wanted something to play during the party. Her own idea was the usual one — a photo collage of her daughter through the years with a song under it, mostly to fill the silence in the room.

In the consultation she mentioned the theme for the night was Disney princess. That changed the job. Instead of a slideshow we made a storybook: a once-upon-a-time telling of her daughter's actual story, narrated in Spanish with English subtitles. I trained a custom image model on family photographs so the characters read as her family, then deliberately retrained it on fewer photos when the first pass came out too photorealistic — a fifteen-year-old's story should look like a storybook, not like her. The script I wrote with the client, so the words were hers. Animation in that style normally means an agency, a budget she didn't have, and a timeline that wouldn't have made the date.

• ✓Concept
• ✓Script, written with the client
• ✓Character design
• ✓Custom image model training
• ✓Image generation
• ✓Animation
• ✓Spanish voiceover
• ✓English subtitles
• ✓Music selection
• ✓Sound mix
• ✓Edit & assembly
• ✓Color
• ✓Delivery for event playback

Érase Una Vez — 2:00

Turnaround: Delivered in one month against a two-month deadline — about 100 hours