Capsule House - The Tale of Kitsune
The 2D animation studio, Future Power Station, was tasked with creating a short film following the character Nami, a Kitsune, as she goes about her deliveries in Yokai Tower. The film was very influenced by Japanese art styles, and as such it was going to be quite labour intensive, so the decision was made to create all the backgrounds and camera moves in 3D.
I designed the interior and exterior building shots, modeling and texturing each asset and lighting the completed scenes. The approach was the same for both, I created multiple, modular assets which would fit together seamlessly to quickly create large, interesting and non-repetitive scenes.
I prepared each shot in After Effects with render passes and 3D tracking data to allow the 2D characters to be composited in after.
