The girl who made the stars is a father-daughter
story
about a girl who can't sleep
wakes up
from the middle of a nightmare
calls her father and and he calms her down
by telling her a story
about believing in herself and trusting herself.
It was so scary it.
The daughter is Young Burnham
and the father is played by Kendrick green.
You want to hear the story of the girl
who made the stars
and
as he tells this story launches us
off to a
epic tale
that is
very different from any Trek.
We've seen so far
back, then there were no stars in the night
sky,
so when the dark came and made them
afraid we knew instantly that the girl who made
the Stars had to be animation
because animation has a
Magical quality to it that is very difficult to
achieve in live action and action
going from live action to animation.
I won't lie was tough.
It was hard and cut very nice in live-action.
You can go to a set you can interact
with environment and you shoot it in animation you
go to vo booth and you go to a
computer and the then some magic happens
it appears.
So this was probably one of the most challenging
things that I've done in a long time
when we were establishing kind of the look and
feel of
the short a lot of it was taking a
look at the
show
like the actual Discovery show and trying to draw
as many parallels from that as we could
for example, like the Burnham character capturing the likeness
for that
working with pixel was great because there's a shorthand
because of disco
so, you know,
We kind of already speak each other's language.
We've been lucky enough to be working with Alex
kurtzman and 10 day
for the last few years.
So we're pretty familiar with it.
We have a lot of fans in the studio.
It's one of my favorite Brands out there.
So
we started with the storyboards
when we were talk to tunde.
He had a very clear idea of
where he wanted to take this visually
one of the first things we did was look
at
different
pictures and photographs of Africa.
West Africa South Africa North Africa
and different tribes that existed there
and
we talked about how we wanted it to look
super real but not too real so that it
maintained its innocence and it's magic
they
did a couple of concept images and literally nailed
it right out the gate.
My personal favorite
is when she's in the cave and talking to
the alien.
I just love how
how that shot is kind of lit
and
the dreamlike feel of it the Chloe asked.
Act of the entire thing again coming back to
that table element, it's a story it is a
myth and being able to weave in art I
think helps people suspend their disbelief and really sink
their mind into the storytelling, but how can I
tell everyone
You must show them
the being said
my favorite part about creating this short Trek
was
when I was
almost finished
showing my
daughter
and watching her watch someone who looked like her
and
just seeing the expression on her face.
It was priceless and I thought wow,
it's really cool that we get to spread this
kind of joy around the world
my night.