Tuomas Kankola

A short film created at Undo for the Finnish Red Cross, featuring two characters designed by artist Julia Vuori.

The whole project was an experiment into creating non-photorealistic 3D and a lot of time was spent on trying out what worked and what didn't. We ended up using a hybrid method: all elements in the short are animated and rendered in 3D, but the backgrounds also received a paintover in Photoshop to make them look more cartoony.

The base models for the characters, Reddie and Cat, were created by Aki Harra and my job was to finish them for use in the final animation. Rigging and animation was done by Pekka Kytölä and Meuran Salim, while Leo Lipasti helped with modeling props. Markus Elo did a lot of work painting some of the backgrounds.

Apart from modeling work, I was did most of the lookdev and handled all of the rendering. I also helped to paint the backgrounds and was responsible for delivering the final product for the client.