A dark & short story

motion graphic 2d/3D

Awarded

HAMBURG HANIMATION AWARD 2023 – EXPERTS 2nd place

This combined 2D/3D animation is a short, dark story told in a single scene. I was inspired by a mood visual I drew years ago for a series of illustrations for a novel by Ross Macdonald. Unfortunately, the project wasn't realised, but the little scene still captivates me. It contains the whole mood and dark essence of the story - pure "film noir". In this tyle I designed the scene and the title animation: hard and high-contrast drawings, rough and expressively animated.

work process

This is the inspiration image:

The landscape was drawn in Procreate and post-processed in Photoshop. For the 50th-Chevie, I used a simple 3D model, animated it in CINEMA 4D, and rendered it with deliberately rough toon settings to match the harsh style of the scene.

Grass, lighting and rain was animated entirely in AFTER EFFECTS with various masks and effects.