El encenillo viajero

An animated story for Señal Colombia about a young tree learning to see its world.

El Encenillo Viajero title image set in a dense green forest with a dark reflective foreground

A young tree wants to travel like the birds, but his father teaches him that there are many ways to travel. One of them is learning to “see”. ‘Cuentazos con Efectazos’ won Best Television Series at the Kolibri Festival in Bolivia for “El encenillo viajero”, one of the new episodes released by Señal Colombia.

Client: LaPost Studio for Señal Colombia
Role: Storyboard, characters and backgrounds
Category: Film & video

Video 01

Storyboard

Storyboard page for El Encenillo Viajero with title, forest panels and line studies of trees and roots

Storyboard sheet with annotated forest drawings, branching tree forms and a landscape sequence

Storyboard sheet pairing a water-and-forest sequence with tree studies and arrows indicating movement

Character and scene studies for El Encenillo Viajero, with expressive tree faces and dark forest reference panels

Storyboard page with an expressive tree face, a branching character and forest composition studies

Storyboard sheet with bird studies, directional arrows and a forest scene in line and shaded versions

Closing storyboard studies of a leafy tree and a densely drawn forest scene

Characters / Father

Tree-character design sheet with twelve bark-textured facial expressions above a full green tree

Characters / Son

Tree-character design sheet with a grid of round facial expressions and a narrow-trunked tree below

Characters / Australian Eucalyptus

Tall green tree character with a small face and red accent near its upper trunk

Characters / Chinese Urapan

Green tree character with a branching crown and a face embedded in the trunk

Backgrounds / Enchanted forest

Forest clearing glowing in violet and pink light, with flowers spread across the ground

Background / Dead forest

Dark violet forest with slender trunks and scattered points of pink light

Background / Fog forest and Páramo

Green forest below a softly rendered mountain disappearing into pale mist

Backgrounds / Frailejón

Wide hillside landscape dotted with slender palms and large spiky plants

Two tree trunks above an exposed network of roots in dark brown soil

Panoramic green forest floor with closely spaced tall brown trunks

Monochrome forest scene with dark silhouettes of trees and a textured reflective foreground

Image index

Credits

Agency: LaPost Studio
Illustration: Catalina Vásquez
Animation: David Castaño

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