Taking day without work from their weight-reduction plan of tv and movie VFX work, the crew at Motif Studios in Cape City dig in for a enjoyable blast of character design and animation on this brief movie they name Gelato Roboto.
Motif director Craig Parker: “We needed to experiment with doing a extra idea digital artwork look whereas additionally discovering as shut an answer to rendering in real-time as attainable. We additionally knew we needed to do robots. Combating.
“By utilizing Blender Eevee for scene-building, lighting, and rendering, we had been in a position to create a workflow with our animators in each Blender and Maya. Some further character animation was executed with a brilliant DIY technique of utilizing an outdated X-Field Kinekt for movement seize.
“We needed to experiment with doing a extra idea digital artwork look whereas additionally discovering as shut an answer to rendering in real-time as attainable.”
“One of many enjoyable issues that occurred was Procreate obtained an replace the place importing 3D fashions into the portray program could possibly be textured with brushes on an iPad Professional. We constructed a rudimentary metropolis road, characters, and props this manner that saved issues extraordinarily optimized.
“As soon as all our animation and primary blocking had been full, we opened up the scenes in Cinema 4D and created and refined all of the digicam strikes. This was helpful since you had a repeating efficiency and will reframe for timing till issues had the rhythm we had been going for.
“As soon as the textures had been exported again to Blender, we went into further lighting and rendering and did closing compositing and grading in Adobe After Results. Our turnaround time for the piece was about two and a half weeks from idea to complete.”
Manufacturing: Motif Studios
Director: Craig Parker
3D artist/animator: André Janse van Vuuren
3D animator: Linda Middleton
3D modeler: Galeed Majiet
AD: Craig Parker
Editor/compositor: Craig Parker
Producer: Jacques Bock
Sound design: Craig Parker
Music: Redoctopus (licensed)
