A moth who repairs umbrellas opens a shop in a town where the weather takes everything personally.

A Small Weather

Format
Hybrid animated series
Target year / Status
2026 / Pilot concept
Studio role
Creation · writing · hybrid animation
Production
Whimsical Arc Original

01 / The story

A moth who repairs umbrellas opens a shop in a town where the weather takes everything personally.

Each episode begins with an ordinary repair and becomes a small emotional catastrophe. Beneath the comedy is a story about making room for feelings that cannot be fixed. The town is assembled from tactile surfaces, crooked rooflines and the things people keep.

A little awkwardness makes a character feel alive.

A fictional production concept. Artwork and studies illustrate the proposed world; release years are part of the demo.

02 / The visual notebook

Inside the world.

03 / Production notes

An intention in
every department.

Design & performance

A world with its own rules.

A little awkwardness makes a character feel alive. Character silhouette, spatial rhythm and color are explored together in the visual notebook, before a sequence moves into an animatic or playable test.

Technical development

Built around the image.

Handmade material studies inform stylized 3D sets, while stepped animation preserves the hesitation and asymmetry of a miniature performance.

Music & sound

More than what we see.

Tiny brushed percussion and gently detuned keys give each gust of wind its own comic timing.

04 / Moving studies

From stillness
to a sequence.

Explore the studio’s animated visual anthology: a short sequence of world, character and material studies.

Orchard: first light01 / Felt tones & warm harmonics
The night courier02 / Low pulse & distant keys
A room after rain03 / Suspended electronic textures
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Original synthesized studies · select a track to listen

05 / Fictional project credits

Many hands.

Creative direction
Mara Sol
Visual development
Ren Okada
Production
Elian Vale
Music & sound
Leila Nadir
Technical direction
Ivo Hart

Keep wandering

Related worlds.

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The visual notebook
Enlarged production artwork
Visual anthology / 5 scenes / 00:20

01 / Animation

The Orchard

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