THE FINISHED PRODUCT

Wow everybody! We're finally finished!!! It was a hard journey, but I'm insanely happy to say this short film is completed. Yes, there are still things to fix, and errors here and there. But this is the result of our 1 year animation program, and damn, it's not too bad. Thank you for you support, and we hope you will enjoy "The Perfumist"!

ThePerfumist Final from Daniela Lobo Dias on Vimeo.

"The Perfumist" is a dramatic story highlighting the battle of Machine-Equipped Man against Cosmic Nature. Seeking the perfect scent for his perfume, Benedict Malville runs into the consequences of trampling on sacred, natural ground. Enrolled at New York Film Academy's 1Year 3D Animation Conservatory, we are a group of four working together in our final thesis project.

Our Goal

A shot at compositing. Still need to fix little things here and there, but it's on it's way!

Busy Bees working Busily

Some screenshots as we work! We're animating and lighting and etc.

Animation in progress by Daninela:

Lighting in at work by Shannon:

More Behind-the-Scene captures will be uploaded!!!

Animation Animation Animation!

We're in the thick of it. We're furiously animating, and rendering as we polish to make sure we meet our deadline at the end of June. Really excited at some of these poses. Benedict is a ridiculous character and I love it!

Queen's cave Lighting Update

lighted by Shannon Lee
Cave Designed and modeled by Yukari Akaba
Queen Flower by Sandra Rivero

Queen Flower Rigged

Benedict Flower Texturing

Silhouettes

Checking out Benedict's silhouettes. The hair needs a lot more work, I hope that once we've blocked out more animation, I'll have time to spruce it up lots.

Backpack Texture by Mudbox, Maya, Photoshop

Benedict Flower Blend Shape Test Animation

Love playing with blend shape lol.

Benedict Flower Blend Shape Test from Shannon S Lee [이승민] on Vimeo.

Bendict Flower is almost Finished!

Modeling of Benedict Flower has finally finished! And moved on to blend shape today. The process of making blend shape can be so tedious and tiring, but after when they are done, the results are so entertaining. 

Blend Shapes:

Test Lighting

As I block out the animation in my shots, I've been experimenting with lighting. It's so fun to see the project getting closer to our vision!

Lighting the Environment...trials and errors...

Going through many many many trials...each render costing up to 4 minutes....(cry)

Benedict Flower Version 04

Major change has been made to the Flower Benedict. We had really good feedbacks from monthly SIGGRAPH BYOA event that perhaps losing "human quality" could make more interesting design. So this time I made his body more asymmetrical and during reference search, I came across a type of orchid flower called "Dendrobium". 

The meaning of this flower is "beautiful, but selfish". This orchid was indeed a perfect inspiration for Flower Benedict!  

Concept Sketch:

Zbrush model: