Offcut

Offcut

Offcut is a musical odyssey set inside a luthier's workshop. The story follows the adventures of a discarded scrap of wood, who comes to life and finds meaning in music.

This project was a collaboration by third-year undergraduate Animation, 2D and 3D Visual Effects students at Escape Studios in London.

Over 12 weeks we took our Director, Petroc's Story idea through the concept phase, creating storyboards and 3D previsualization. Then onto filming where we shot all of the background plates that our character would interact with. We then proceeded with 3D Modeling, Rigging, and Animation to bring Offcut to life. Texturing and Lighting our animated character came next, before finally compositing all of our 3D and 2D prepped elements together into our final shots.

Offcut has had success at the following film festivals:

Dirigo International Student Film Festival 2020- Winning: Best Animated Film

Flicks Film Festival 2020- Winning: Best Under 5-minute Film

Cineshots February 2020- Official Selection

CREW

Offcut was Directed by Petroc Menuhin

Produced by Tosin Ogunleye and Ethen Dent

Lead Animator: Daniel Lötter

Animators: Petroc Menuhin, Kacper Fratczak, Cuchulan O'Byrne

Lead 3D Artist: Cian Ataie

3D Artist: Oscar Lowe

Matchmove: Ethen Dent, James Pratt

Lead Compositor: James Pratt

Compositors: Harry Havens, Tosin Ogunleye, Milan Grundza