Animator vs. Animation || Unspoken

'Unseen. Unheard. Unspoken.'
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Everyone thinks Eleven-year-old Second has a normal life. They're wrong.

His older siblings are broken in ways no child should ever witness- 17-year-old Victim with his missing eye and quiet intensity, 14-year-old Chosen drowning in guilt and constant apologies, and 14-year-old Dark hiding behind a mask of emptiness. Alan, their father, is trying... but some wounds run too deep.

At school, Second is bullied for having a "strange" family, rumors spreading faster than anyone will stop them. Kids avoid the very topic of befriending him as a result of these cruel rumors. As if that wasn't enough, at home, he's invisible, his pain downplayed by the very people he loves most. Misunderstandings run free, tearing this dysfunctional family apart further and further. Once Second gains his first friends in Green, Blue, Yellow, and Red- the first who don't bolt at the sight of his family- he finds that he feels safer with them than he does with his own family, and begins avoiding his family deliberately.

Healing is like a journey. Challenges are almost guaranteed to be faced, and misunderstandings- well, they ARE guaranteed. Especially when it comes to the Becker family. "Unspoken" is a story of a boy struggling to navigate the effect of his family's trauma, all while having his pain downplayed when he tries to speak up. No one's the villain here. Just a story of a family whose misunderstandings threaten to tear each other apart, their father trying his hardest to reconcile, the older siblings trying to recover, and their youngest being indirectly affected by trauma he never asked for.

This is the story of the Becker family.

Through accidental misunderstandings and past mistakes, can this family find a way around them and a way to help each other heal?
Or will they tear each other apart while trying?

Only one way to find out.