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Banner image for nutcracker

Client

Personal

Year

2021

Media

Blender 3D
Davinci Resolve

Audience

N/A

About

This was an end-of-year personal project to create a piece for Christmas 2021. The goal was to tell a story in a short looping animation. "The nutcracker sits under the holiday tree, a guardian of childhood stories. Feed him walnuts and he will crack open a tale..."

Final animations

Final renders

Full Nutcracker in snow scene
Upper torso of Nutcracker in snow scene
Lower body of Nutcracker in snow scene
Head of Nutcracker in studio scene
Upper body of Nutcracker in studio scene

Process

Sketches & Modelling

A very rough sketch was made at the start of the project to get an idea of what the nutcracker would look like. This was ultimately just a loose guide to base the character off of and a lot of the design decisions were made impromptu during the modeling phase. Everything was modeled through hard-surface modeling in Blender.

Rough sketch and Modeling

Rough sketch of nutcracker
Initial box-modelling of nutcracker head Iniital box-modelling of nutcracker head and torso Initial box-modelling of nutcracker lower body

Rendering & Post-Processing

Rendering was done in Blender's Cycles render engine and some post-processing was done in Davinci Resolve.

Final Renders and Post-processing

Clay render of Nutcracker in snow scene
Render of nutcracker without all scene elements or post-processing
Render of nutcracker without post-processing and smoke
Final render of nutcracker with smoke and post-processing

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