Crypto Vault | Illustrated 2D Explainer & Storyboard

Overview

Crypto Vault is a 30-second illustrated explainer about keeping crypto funds safe. It follows the funds from a locked wallet to a vault, with no on-screen text.

Challenge

With no words on screen, each step had to read from the picture alone, at feed size and with the sound off.

Approach

I started with a nine-panel storyboard, drawn by hand: the funds, the watching eye, the key, the climb and the vault. I set it in a pastel world of glossy spheres and waves in pink, violet and peach. Camera moves and timing come from the panels, and colour, light and depth came in the illustration pass.

My contribution

Hand-drawn nine-panel storyboard with animation notes

Each panel redrawn as a full-colour frame in Illustrator, with every element on its own layer

Animation in After Effects, including the camera moves, the eye opening, the key circling the core and the vault filling with coins

Edit in Premiere Pro, cut to music with sound effects

Deliverable

A 30-second 16:9 explainer with music and sound effects. With nothing written on screen, it works muted and in any language.

Need a product explained in under a minute? Send me the storyboard or the idea, and tell me where it will run.