Opus
A short film created and screened Design Week 2018.
"This dummy dude is too curious and gets into a whole bunch of hijinks. Will his curiosity consume his soul?"
Design, Animation,
Lead Compositing
Design + Animation: Kim Daley, Yahira Hernandez, Alex Bernard, Daniel Moreno
Full credits below
Selects
A collection of my favorite stills from the piece.
Process
We worked together to create a cute but simple character to be our protagonist. We wanted him to be easily translateable to any art style and still be recognizable.
The mystery box went through a few design rounds and plenty of collaboration between all of us. We decided to go with a 4D cube and integrated random floating elements to give it a unique look.
Monster world
One of my personal favorite things I made. Just two monsters hanging out in a swamp and then being stunned when a third mate suddenly appears out of no where.
Used a mix of Substance Painter for the trees and Redshift to render out the entire scene.
Squeky town
Reintroducing some elements of a past personal project, I put our main character into a super clean and bubbly world being carried by a balloon party.
Into the void
Our final section is a super mash up of all kinds of styles and imagery. This was an opportunity to make a bunch of stuff as quickly as possible and further expand his journey.
Credits
Design, Animation - Yahira Hernandez
Design, Animation - Kim Daley
Design, Animation, Cel - Alex Bernard
Design, Animation, 3D - Daniel Moreno
Lead Compositor, Editor - Daniel Moreno
Audio Track - Alex Bernard
Audio Mix, SFX - Daniel Moreno