CGI 3D Animated Short: "The Red Heel" by Elena Serenko | The Rookies

The Red Heel is a midcentury comedy about misogyny in the workforce, inspired by the style of the UPA animation of the 50s! # Characters Designing these characters was a unique challenge, as it translated a wildly 2D concept into a 3D space. H.R. Guy went under a complete redesign during the modelling process, so that he'd exude testosterone and fraternity energy. Both Suzy and H.R. Guy have camera locked textures on their clothing. The effect was made using a mixed shader combing an aiToon and aiStandardSurface Shader, and used a light mask to determine the texture's area of influence. # Set All of the textures in The Red Heel are hand drawn on paper and formated through Photoshop. Keeping textures organic was pivotal to the final look of the film, and creating seamless tiles allowed texturing to be more efficient. The film relied on alpha cards for all the linework, grunge, and detail effects. # Concept Art Being able to play with 2D art direction through 3D technology has been an incredibly fun learning experience, and I hope the film's comedy conveys its message. Feel free to take a look at the links below, thanks for reading! We really hope you enjoy watching this video! When you do, please hit the LIKE ✔️ SUB ✔️ SHARE ✔️ button as well as the bell symbol 🔔 so you'll be kept in the loop as new material is published on our channel! ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ Thank You for SUBSCRIBING -► http://bit.ly/subscribe-therookiesco ▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂▂ WANT TO GET FEATURED? If you’re a CGI ARTIST, SCHOOL, ANIMATOR, FILMMAKER, or STUDIO and would like your project showcased on The Rookies, simply apply here ►http://bit.ly/therookiesco-submit ———————————————————— WHAT IS THE ROOKIES? CLICK TO FIND OUT ►https://www.therookies.co/about/ Founded in 2010, The Rookies is a community for non-professional digital artists. A place for artists with a passion for film, games, animation, immersive media, archviz, motion graphics, product design and other creative industries. It doesn't matter whether you are a hobbyist, student, self-taught or even wanting to change careers. All that matters is you want to become a better artist, learn new skills and be surrounded by people on the same journey as you. --- "The journey has been amazing so far, and I can't wait to see where I can go from here" Testimonial by Ben Macauley | Junior Environment Artist - Wargaming ———————————————————— FOLLOW US BELOW: ►Web - https://www.therookies.co ►Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheRookiesCO ►Twitter https://twitter.com/TheRookiesCO ►Instagram https://www.instagram.com/TheRookiesCO "The Rookies are strong anti-piracy advocates. Before streaming this video we obtained a copyright license from the claimed Rights Holder. If you have good and sufficient reason to contest the granting of this license, please provide us with all pertinent details at [email protected]."