Alina Chau lives in Los Angeles, California and works for a production service studio as a 3D character animator, storyboard/concept artist, and a part time CG animation professor at a university. Alina worked on The Legend of Spyro: A New Begining opening cinematic and commercial. She also did the storyboards for all the cinematics. These were done under Technicolor Interactive. Below are links to all the storyboards. I cut the links from her blog so you could access them directly. In the blog they are accompanied by her other, non-Spyro work. Here are the links:

Opening Cinematic Storyboard 1

Opening Cinematic Storyboard 2

Spyro's Egg Storyboard

Meeting Terrador Storyboard 1

Meeting Terrador Storyboard 2

Meeting Terrador Storyboard 3

Rescue Ignitus 1

Rescue Ignitus 2

Rescue Ignitus 3

Rescue Ignitus Continue 1

Rescue Ignitus Continue 2

Rescue Ignitus Continue 3

Volcano sequence 1

Volcano sequence 2

Volcano sequence 3

Volcano sequence 4

Volcano sequence 5

Volcano sequence 6

Escape from Convexity 1

Escape from Convexity 2

Escape from Convexity 3

FlashBack 1

FlashBack 2

FlashBack 3

Cinematic No.8

Cynder's transformation 1

Cynder's transformation 2

Cynder's transformation 3

Cynder's transformation

Temple scene

End Scene

This is the cinematic she worked on:



Alina's work is amazing! I love how cute Sparx is. In my opinion, he should have looked like that in the game. Some interesting notes - Spyro's blushing when talking with Cynder in one scene, that didn't appear in the game. Did it give too much away? Also, the ending originally took place outside in the snow, not on a balcony. The most intriguing art however is the flashback scene. Whatever that is, it didn't appear in the game and those humans with spears have got me extremely curious. Why are they stealing the eggs? Was it a story element that got removed entirely or will TLoS 3 reveal the secret behind those images?

The ANB storyboards and cinematic work took about six months from from pre-production to finish.

Alina also worked on God of War II. The majority of the postings in her blog are quick ideas and experimental sketches for our evaluation. It isn't right for me to post all these storyboards directly which allows you to bypass her blog. All of her sketches are colorful and unique and I urge you to go look at them and comment on her work. You will find the Spyro storyboards as they were originally posted there, as well.

Ice-Cream Monster Cinema Blog

Ice-Cream Monster Toon Cafe Blog

Spyro Storyboards Post

Please support her. After all her work for Spyro, she definitely deserves our feedback!

I think this is the happiest day of my life. XD You have no idea how long I've been hoping something like this would be released. Thank you for sharing!

The flashback scene DID get used in the game, just that there were monkeys used in the end result instead of humans (or if they were monkeys in the concept drawings they somehow look a little less primate).

Thanks for sharing them though, they were fun to see :D

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