Road Rage is a short film made by four other people and I for the class ANIM 313: 3D Pipeline at Savannah College of Art and Design.
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It features two parking meters fighting over a nice car. Both of them want it to park in their parking space!
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Additional animation, modeling, texturing, rigging, and lighting by: Tor Parker, Ryan Marsden, Alex Robertson, and Ibaa Al Rawahi.
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Software: Maya, Arnold, After Effects, Photoshop
Year: 2019
Animation!
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My favorite part of the process was animating these little robots to have such fun personalities. I tried to imagine them as little kids throwing a tantrum over a shiny new toy. It was a nice challenge to get these stiff looking machines to convey a sense of emotion through acting.
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To get the feeling I wanted from them, I took video of myself acting and used it as reference to animate them.
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Parking meters and car all animated in Maya 2018.
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Parking meter design by Tor Parker.
Modeling!
While I don't consider myself a modeler, it was really fun to be able to make things for this film, especially these houses! It was really my first big foray into texturing and shading, and I really learned a lot from these.
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Eventually these were all rendered in Arnold along with the rest of the film.
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As the setting was Savannah, I took inspiration from the houses that I see around me every day. I also took pictures of things like painted walls and sidewalks and turned those flat pictures into the textures on the sides of the houses and the concrete steps.
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All modeled and textured in Maya 2018.