This short video and project is about a little fox that looses it’s ball and gains the courage to go find it. This project’s theme was bioluminescence and rather than create a simple dark area with one light source, I chose to have my environment well lit with one small dark area for the bioluminescence to shine. With this choice, I was able to create a cute story and fun animation that subverted expectations.

All of the 3D modeling was done in Maya with extrusion based modeling, while all of the texturing was done in Substance Painter 3D. The character was then rigged with full controls from scratch and animated every 2 frames all in Maya. The final rigged character used an IK chain for each individual limb and driven keys for the tails movement. The final video was then put together in Adobe After Effects.