The Animation of Laura Jurkaityte

Short animated film "Pancake Day"

Pancake Day is a short animated film co-directed with Augustina Bartkute as the final project of our 3rd year at the University for the Creative Arts. The project is not finished yet. 

I did all 3D modelling, rigging, texturing and 3D animation, while Augustina Bartkute did animatic, 2D backgrounds, 2D VFX/animation. 

Main character:

Ona is a young girl. A bit of a scaredy-cat, but to get back her beloved toy she will learn how to be brave

Lašininis (porky) - another effigy of winter. Portrait as bad traits for the Spring time, like being lazy or over-eating.

Kanapinis (Hempman) - An effigy of spring. Shows desired traits of a good villager. Hardworking and ready for fasting.

Storyboards:

Visual Development:

Storyboards vs Final Renders:

Full movie (still in progress):

The short animation film "Between two fires" (2020) is about a baby camel who tries to run away from a bushfire in Australia, however, a shocking surprise awaits him at the end of the journey. I co-directed the film with Veronika Jakutaviciute. "Between two fires" is our debut film. I did the biggest part of the modelling, texturing, animating, and lighting for this film, while Veronika did all concept art for it. For this entry, I present my animations and models.

The film splits into two parts. The first part recreates the impression of stories that were once told in the shadow theatre technic by using a 3D medium. I wanted to make a visual style based on real shadow theatre but with the feeling of a sunny Australian vibe. For this reason, in most of the scenes, dominant colours became yellow, red, brown, and orange. In the end, the result resembled quite different from shadow theatre but I am happy with it because in this way the look of the film turned out more unique than expected.

The second part of the film looks more dimensional and real. This helps to create an illusion of danger and contrast between the real and dream worlds. 

Camel character:

Full movie "Between Two Fires"

Character modeling, rigging and animation "The pirate Mushroom"