Ouroboros the Animation

Half-traditional half-digital animation titled "Ouroboros" in the fantasy genre and tryptic of posters for that short film.
It is a story about a dragonlike creature that was living in a dark forest and shot with arrows by someone unknown. However, the story does not end for that dragon here as inside it, there's little one which transforms into ouroboros - a snake that eats its own tail - a symbol of the cycle of life, death, and rebirth. Dragon reappears but has the same colour as the little one, but it becomes black again and looks the same as the creature that was shot at the beginning.

Since the beginning, I knew that characters that would be the main focus of animation will need to be created digitally if I want to achieve satisfying fluidity of movement, that also why creatures haven't got any shading, I didn't want to overcomplicate the already complex process of creating animation.
However I didn't give up on details completely, with newly learned knowledge of creating stop-motion animation and how to use Dragonframe, I was able to add some traditional and complicated in their form elements without using a lot of paper and time. To create the background for "Ouroboros" I took inspiration from how classic Disney movies backgrounds were created - They were painted in several layers on the glass to create depth. I've done something similar but with overlaying drawings of trees, with parts cut off, on two types of paper - normal and tracing with red paper underneath as a base for the whole scene.
Character animation was made in Clip Paint Studio and exported as PNG image sequence to keep transparency, therefore, be easier to put together with stop-motion animation parts in Adobe Premiere. After finalization of creating the video, I started designing poster tryptic, I gave a lot of attention to creating hand-rendered typography and keeping posters in similar stylistic to the animation itself.