Apes in the Finery
3D Animation short film, made with Frida Ding and Gina Yang, 2019.
-responsible for character design, storyboard, previz, part of character modeling, part of prop modeling, lighting design, part of rigging, 3D and 2D animation, illustration, smoke sim, compositing and editing.
-used software: Maya, Zbrush, Substance Painter, Photoshop, After Effect, Nuke
WORLD SETTING
This is a steampunk world that each people have gears and a core on their head. There are smokes that come out from the chimney on the head, and the color of the smoke represents the quality of the core that the person has. How colorful the smokes are would affect one’s creativity, productivity, uniqueness, and even social status.
The boy, our protagonist, has a “low-quality core” and his color of the smoke is dark and dirty. People’s disrespectful attitude towards him made him desire to change, but things weren’t that simple……
SCREENSHOTS
COLOR SCRIPTS
CHARACTER DESIGN
