Espen Soerensen's profile

Character design | 'Aldo'

Educational project

This character was produced for an animated short we did on the 2nd year at Noroff University College.

My work:
- Art Direction
- Character design
- Modeling
- Texturing
- Rigging
- Animation
- Rendering
- Compositing

Polygons
Full scene | 175,000
Character smoothed | 150,000
Character unsmoothed |   32,000

Software used:
- 3D Studio Max        | modeling, texturing, lighting, rigging, skinning, posing, rendering
- Adobe After Effects   | composition



| Final Shot |


| Blocked Shot |
| Character presentation |


| Composited still frame |
Final composition stillframe


| Wire |
Diffuse layer with wire on top of it


| Render passes |
Wireframe
Ambient occlusion pass
Depth of field pass, Zdepth
This is the two main lighting passes.

Left: Key light
Right: Jungle fill light


| Concept Sketches |
Concept sketches - Head
Concept sketches - Hands and boots
Concept sketches - Body
Character design | 'Aldo'
Published:

Character design | 'Aldo'

University project, Animated Short

Published: