He named me Malala

Storyboard, Illustration and Concept Art for the animation for the Documentary Film ¨He Named Me Malala”

"He Named Me Malala" is a documentary directed by Davis Guggenheim about Malala Yousafzai. The young woman from Pakistan won the Nobel Prize in 2014 for her defense of every girl’s right to an education, and has continued to fight for that right after surviving being shot in the head by members of the Taliban for speaking out on behalf of girls in Pakistan.

Director: Davis Guggenheim
Writer: Malala Yousafzai (inspired by the book: I Am Malala)
Producers: Davis Guggenheim | Laurie MacDonald | Walter F. Parkes
Editor: Greg Finton | Brad Fuller | Brian Johnson
Composer: Thomas Newman
Storyboards: David Navas

WINNER, Annie Award for "Best Special Production" - 2016
NOMINEE, Annie Award for "Best Production Design in a Feature Film" - 2016

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First Concept Art and Styleframes for “He named me Malala” animation.

I always start with pencil or ink drawings in notebooks where I also jot down ideas that come up in meetings. From there, I develop the most relevant ideas and create storyboard sequences to see how they would work in animation.

“He Named Me Malala” was the first documentary I worked on with Davis Guggenheim, in 2013. The film is based on the book of the same name written by Malala Yousafzai. I spent several months working closely with Davis before the animation team, which I eventually joined, came on board. Those were exceptional times as we wrote the documentary's script and explored potential moments to animate.

The goal was to translate Malala's experience into drawings that conveyed her story. As we progressed, new ideas for scenes emerged, which I storyboarded, while others were discarded. This is the part I enjoy most about any project: translating the narrator's voice into images, searching for ideas, concepts, and style, and creating images, storyboards, and animatics in a very loose way to see how the animation flows alongside the rest of the documentary.

I always start with pencil or ink drawings in notebooks where I also jot down ideas that come up in meetings. From there, I develop the most relevant ideas and create storyboard sequences to see how they would work in animation.

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