Being on a personal project kick, Desmond from NoSleep Creative and I teamed up yet again to make something fun and lighthearted, based on a Masterstudy he had already been doing from Buck’s “Apeel” animation. We threw out random ideas and quickly landed on “Pokémon” as the theme. We also wanted to bring other people on board and enlisted the help of Alex Escobar and Rasita Kay, 2 very talented illustrator/animators (and good friends).
Process:
The Poké Balls were modeled in Cinema4D and textured and rendered using Element 3D. The Poliwag, Jigglypuff, and Gastly were made using shape layers and CC Sphere in After Effects. As for Magnemite and Tokepy, there were rendered in C4D. Finally, a "boil" effect was added using the Turbulent Displace effect in AE to make everything look hand-drawn.
Role: Animation
Creative Direction - Desmond Du
Created: 2020