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Renai Dance is a 3D animated film blending visual appeal with cultural themes and emotional depth. The story combines elements of Chinese Lion Dancing and Western Modern Ballet, showing the merging of different cultural heritages. Its soundtrack features traditional oriental music, modern symphonic elements, and thematic melodies to enhance the emotional experience. The film aims to offer a new perspective on exploring folkways, familial bonds, and the enduring vitality of culture.
Nomad is a science fiction animated short film about the future of the Amazon rainforest. The film shows a moving city that can carry Amazonian tribes to new habitable areas when a location can no longer support human life. The machines in Nomad keep a mechanical structure but are built mainly from natural materials instead of metal. This nature inspired approach avoids the coldness of traditional machinery and gives the city a sense of vitality. Sketches and storyboards were made first, followed by modeling, animation, rendering and compositing. Motion capture was used for the characters.
Eggshell Montage is an animated video that brings together a series of looping motion artworks. Each scene is built around ambience and a sense of flowing movement, similar to running water in a river. The looping motion is smooth and continuous, and it creates a calm atmosphere for the viewer. Most shots are very wide, and the objects are small and distant, so the audience can feel placed inside the scene. The artworks were illustrated in Photoshop on a tablet and animated in After Effects. Projection on a wall increases the impact of the viewing experience.
Sea of Ink is an animated short film about an artist who struggles with a creative block and travels under the sea. The film shows how the artist breaks through barriers during the creative process. A visual aesthetic of three-dimensional hand-drawn watercolor ink gives the story a distinct look. The work combines 2D animation, 3D animation, live-action footage, hand-drawn illustrations and motion graphics. The live-action scenes were filmed with a DSLR camera. Sea of Ink runs for two minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
Promising Ideas Innovation is a short animation created for Unicef to explain how more young people, especially girls in remote areas, have been connected to the internet. The animation compares the number of men and women who access the internet in developed and less developed regions. It then shows the problems that limited access creates for women in those regions. Complex data is turned into a simple story about one girl and the millions who face the same situation. The animation was produced entirely by computer.
SLV Group Promo Video is an animation created for a manufacturer of building scaffolding. The animation presents each stage of production in an abstract form. Casting of metal pipes, galvanizing, welding, quenching and drying are shown in sequence. The separate elements gradually join and form the body of the company logotype. The scenario was based on direct observation of the production process at the company headquarters. The film was made with three-dimensional modelling and rendering software, and was shown at company presentations and construction fairs.
By Polar is a short animation created for the winter of 2020. The story was inspired by a 2019 news report about a hungry and exhausted young polar bear seen wandering in the suburbs of the Siberian industrial city of Norilsk, hundreds of miles from its usual habitat. The animation focuses on the atmosphere and the mood of each scene, and music is used in place of spoken dialogue. All graphic elements were first illustrated on a tablet and a computer, then animated. By Polar recalls that some creatures are neglected in good and in harsh times.
Capture the Moment is a short animated film about the importance of timing in photography. The film shows individual shapes that move and slowly morph into new forms, building one perfect moment. The work is a cell animation, drawn frame by frame for fluid and organic movement. Style frames were first designed in Adobe Illustrator. Each frame was then animated with the timeline feature in Adobe Photoshop. Compiling, adjustment and finishing were carried out in Adobe After Effects. The result is a video of 1920 by 1080 pixels, viewed without any interaction.