Star's Genius Project

Ahhhhh, Chimera. A sweet and bitter title which fits best for a visual dramatic short. While there is no certain plot or dialogue in the video, I suggest viewers to make their own theories and inferences into what happened. The more ideas, the better. The story is simple: Taking place in a Team Fortress 2 universe, our protagonist who is a middle-aged man (known as the Spy) is a hired mercenary which he finds himself stuck between dimensions in fantasy and reality. So what got me into making it? Well, for starters I didn't originally plan to work on this as my genius project. I wanted to improve on speaking Cantonese, but I realized that I could do that while I'm doing something else so I picked on working on this, since I never made a animated short before. I was also inspired from watching many youtube videos highlighting the process to being finalized that professional animators(working in industry) had made. This is one of them. While brainstorming and imagining...

An example of 3d animation is the evaluating and giving characters personality and "breathing them in with life". A General Overview Before 3D animation was created, there was 2D Animation. There was the Golden age of animation which started around the late 1920s to late 1960s. These created notable characters such as Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, and Tom & Jerry. Films that were created at the time became well-known famous movies as what we know now. From here, Disney emerged to a major company that has several different composed departments (Walt Disney Studios, Pixar, Disney Interactive.. etc)︀. Since then, many major companies use 3D animation as its norm. However, it does not mean traditional animation has completely died out. From storyboarding, animatics—which gives the animators a better idea of when to do motion and timing; to its production phase: layout, modeling, texturing, lighting (and adding shaders) to give the overall art direction of the film...