2022 UConn DMD BFA Senior Exhibition

Student Work

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How to Conserve Bread

Nicole Mata

Tolland, CT

BFA (Motion Design & Animation)
Advisor: Heejoo Kim

2D Animation
4 min 46 sec

Link to How to Conserve Bread

How to Conserve Bread is a short video game inspired animation about a species of bread tortoises. The main character Mita is eager to start his adventure to save the bread tortoise species! Over the years these bread tortoises have faced near extinction. Ever since humans stumbled upon the Island, tortoises began to go mysteriously missing without a trace, leaving nothing behind but a few crumbs. Mita might be the only hope these tortoises have left before they are completely wiped out. Will Mita defeat the humans and save his kind?


Artist Bio

Nicole Mata, a Digital Media & Design student at the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Concentrating in 2D animation, Mata is a first-generation student from Tolland CT. Having grown up in a Mexican immigrant family, drawing was often an outlet for dealing with the struggles of self-identity and mental health.

https://www.nicolermata.com/howtoconservebread

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