Totem – 3D animation short-film

This is a 3D animated short-film that I directed along with Estelle Guingo, Anne-Amélie Laugier and Tristan Darras. It was made with 3DS MAX for the class of Yoann Gagnon at UQAT (Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue).

A little being, wearing an angry-looking mask, worships a totem with a wrathful face. But when he finds a picture of smiling people, he’ll get to change his perspective.

 

 

In this project, I first wrote the script with my team and made the storyboard. Then, I modeled and textured the main element of the set : the Totem

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I also textured the character and animated the texture so that when it stops flying, its tribal tattoos disappear and its skin gets less transparent.

 

 

 

 

 

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Then, I created the lighting of the scene, and I animated the cameras.

Finally, I made the renders (with Arnold) and the post-production : editing, mixing, color correcting…