We caught up with Plante to discover how he used Toon Boom Harmony to bring his vision to life - or death, as the case may be. With The Gate, he was able to combine his professional experience animating shorts with his personal love for horror, creating something that is rarely seen in mainstream animation: terror.
An animator at the Ottawa-based studio for the last 14 years, he is a self-described “jack of all trades but master of none” who has worked largely on Mickey Mouse shorts, alongside other projects. Working as part of the Mercury Shorts program, Plante created the entirety of The Gate using Toon Boom Harmony (including the backgrounds!). He brought his sensibility for scares to his latest short, The Gate.
Mercury Filmworks’ senior animator Shane Plante has a taste for these ingredients of fright, having a lifelong appreciation for the genre. Great horror storytelling shares key elements - fear, revulsion, surprise, and terror - which allow a scene to become truly haunting.
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