Overview: A 3D animated short film. This short film is a light horror animation film. It starts off in a office space. The main character is working on his tasks and he is bored. He looks off at the window and stares for a minute then gazes at the clock to see how slowly time is going. Then all of a sudden the lights goes off. Scared and confuse he is wondering what is going on. Then red lights start flashing and sirens are going off. He knows he has to get out of there, as he rushes to find an exit he find his coworker still working. He shouts her name and the coworker stops what she doing and slowly turns to him. He startles and is mortified. She has no face. He jumps back and rushes to find an exit. He desperately trying to open the door but it won’t open and then rushes to the other side and the door will not open. He turns around to see his coworker is right at his face. He instantly wakes up, breathing hard and looks around and notices he is back at in his office and everything is normal. He looks at the time and sees that only a minute has pass by. He signs and resume his work only to see his hands are covered in blood he looks around and see his coworker eyeballs are on his desk and an instance the animation film will end.
The vision of this project is to create a horror film and to branch out and experience different software to create the vision I have. Additionally, it will help me get better at my animation skills. The video produce a nice, short, good film that will entertain all. Final goal of this project is to finish in time and make a smooth clean production.
Project inspiration/background: I created a fun film and also benefits me to master my animation skills. I love animating characters and I knew I wanted to corporate that into my capstone. I decided to do horror genre because I enjoyed making one animation of creating a creature that was creepy.
DayDream Terror YouTube video as of now has 27K views! Check it out above!
In the making for this was short film was definitely a HASSLE, with a tight deadline and various challenges along the way. Either way I am proud of how this came out!
I created both of my characters into ZBrush, where I painted them, added clothes, and hair. I then transferred them into Maya where I added joints, rigged the characters up, then bind-ed the rig joints to the skin. Once the characters were rigged up I painted
weights to clean up the joints. Move on to create the office environment. I made two office rooms and a hallway, added elements like bookcase, computer, desk, etc. Once the elements were added, I attached textures onto them. Next, I move the characters into the scene and started animating them. Once the animation was completed I render them out and exported them into After Effects. Where I then put the renders into a composition, added in sound and exported them into Adobe Media Encoder and exported my final animation video.