CD Doug Alberts and his crew at Noodle in Chicago dial up the whimsy knob to 11 on this new in-house brief combining 2D, 3D, and cel animation into a captivating and cheerful exploration of pure enjoyable.
Doug Alberts: “Our group wished to create a private movie that will permit us to experiment with new types and showcase Noodle’s distinctive voice. Our purpose was to include quite a lot of movement design strategies into one cohesive brief.
“Incorporating this vary of types introduced a big problem by way of making a cohesive feel and look. To deal with this, we relied on music and sound design (by Jennifer Pague) and match cuts to hyperlink the scenes collectively and make the transitions much less jarring.
“We additionally had the chance to experiment with new manufacturing strategies, together with the usage of Cinema 4D’s Hair function for creating grass. Whereas rendering the 4K frames, we discovered that the method might take a whole night time, however we slowly bought our achieved look by way of these in a single day renders.”
Manufacturing: Noodle
CD: Doug Alberts
Further design: David Tatevosian
Music/sound design: Jennifer Pague
