Désir de Contemplation

Hello! My name is César Luton and I am a fourth-year animation student at MoPA, a french CG school. I stumbled upon Blender when I was fourteen, and I’ve been loving it ever since!

During the second half of my third year in school, we had to make a one-minute short film by ourselves. The goal of the exercise was to make sure that every student has a good grasp on all of the aspects of CG animation before we specialize during our fourth and fifth years. We also learn 3ds Max and Maya in school, but I decided to go with Blender.

The Characters 

I wanted to give the characters an elegant but menacing look, hence their angular design. I did the texturing in Substance Painter, and the clothing in Marvelous Designer.    

金先生 - The art collector

林先生 - The  other art collector

王先生 - The auctioneer

斌 - The henchman

The background and lighting

Plants and furniture, like chairs and sofas, mostly constist of premade assets. Facade of buildings were generated procedurally using particles. Very little compositing was done to the images, I simply added lens distortion and a vignette.

Conclusion

Except for the cloth, every simulation was done using Blender’s internal tools.

Overall, the project took a bit more than 5 month to make. The animation process was the most time-consuming part of the film, at more than half of the production time.

This exercise was extremely instructive and made me realize how much I still have to learn.

Hope you enjoy this short film !