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Docked

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Life on the docks

ROLE: Designer, Animator, and Finisher
STUDIO: Buddha Jones
TOOLS: After Effects, Cinema 4D, Redshift, Media Encoder, Illustrator, and Photoshop 

CREDITS:

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  • creative directors: Ricardo Castro

  • designers: Ailis O'Reilly and Xiaozhao Zhou

  • Unreal Artists: Adam Velazquez and Xiaozhao Zhou

  • AE animators: Ailis O'Reilly, Xiaozhao Zhou, and Kristina Hansen

  • Finishers: Ailis O'Reilly and Kristina Hansen

  • Producer: Lizzy Bradley

  • Coordinator: Mojdeh Ghanbari

What was this for?
This is a video game where you manage a dock with the goal of making money, expanding your business, and weathering storms. 

What did I do?
I was in charge of making an ALT card design with a program of my choice, while the other artists made one in unreal. I decided to have fun with it and make a C4D card with toolkit-able AE text. I enjoyed seeing what textures I could play with and what animations I could add to the simple camera movement. Once I had everything set up, I then made them work in vertical formats for finishing. 
 

Design Process

3D Background Creation

It was fun to make something new in C4D, experiment with layering of textures, and play with erosion. At first, I thought a 3D text could be interesting but I switched to AE Text for better flexibility.

Arrow Animations

My team wanted to have arrows point to various crates in the footage. I animated some frames to make movs with alphas to put in Unreal. I played around with a few styles until we got one we liked.

Frame Tests

Some of the frames that were prerequisites to the finals:

Final Frames

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