Out of the box
Cube Prism
Role
3D Modelling,Texturing, Lighting
Music and Sound Design
At the start of 2020, when all of us at Boxfort had to stay home, we still wanted to collaborate on something. So we did this short called Out of the Box. And each of us did 1 or two animations based on the same square shape in the center. This allowed it to cut together and feel coherent. Watch the collaborative piece here.
I took one of my scnenes and extended it. I added some of my own music and sound design, in order to make a more meditative piece.
Stills
Process
The most important part of this piece was to get the right look from the lighting. I wanted it to feel like light shining in through a window, filtered by trees outside that are blowing in the wind. Below you can see the animated shadow matte that I applied to the Redshift Lights and how it worked in the 3D scene. I animated the Shadow Matte in After Effects with fractal noise and particular.
Here you can see the comparison of the final top down look to a perspective angle. In the viewport render you can see that the actual movement in the scene was very subtle. Slow camera movement along with two lights moving for the highlight on the cube. Much of the life of the scene comes from the moving shadows.
Another look at the C4D viewport.