We received a pre-production package to create a 3-minute animation video. Initially, we thought of changing the background story and concept arts to suit our vision, but we realized that it would take a lot of time, and we would miss the deadline. So, we decided to stick with the original storyboard and background settings provided to us.
We started to look for art references and tried to determine the art style for the animation video. Our artists did a lof of discussions and finally decided to give this piece a stylistic look. We found some references that we thought would suit the video and shared them with the team.
Here are some of the art references:
In the 2nd, we focused on testing the pipeline for the animation video. We decided to use Unreal Engine 5 for the project and made a simple animation to test the pipeline. We imported the animation into the engine and rendered a sequence out to check if everything was working correctly. We encountered some issues, but we managed to solve them with the help of the engine documentation.
We then moved on and started modelling both the exterior and interior of our environments.
