Pause 2016 Motion Response:
A Brief History of Time
Created with the most amazing artists around when I was a staff at Cravefx. My role in this project includes designing and art directing with Lai Hui Li.
In this conceptual animated short, we aim to create a comedic performance where the past, present and future realities overlap and interact in an environment where time has no start or end.
A modern take on Zbigniew Rybczyński's Tango, every actor that participates in this space is trapped in an infinite loop where their actions simultaneously bare and yet bare no consequence to another.
Starting with a single actor that performs the same series of mundane actions, followed by another and yet another, we start to discover the motivation of these characters and their performance do not simply coexist but are correlated in a complex chain of events. Hilarity ensues as every absurd action cumulates in an amalgamation of intricately choreographed antics.
Model Sheets
As the project was done pro bono, all of us at Cravefx had to juggle paid client projects on top of this passion project of ours. The work was split so that none of us would get burnt out and the quality of the paid projects
won’t get compromised.
After the designs were done, I had to quickly move on to focus on paid client projects. I was thankful to get to tag-team with the wonderfully skilled illustrator,
Lai Hui Li, who helped turn my designs into model sheets to prepare for 3D modeling.
Right from the get-go, I wanted the feel of the film to be colorful and playful looking to compliment with this whacky world the characters live in. The toy look, cheeky design elements, colorful palette in contrast with some elements of gore were a result of expanding
on the idea of playfulness.
...and because I want to meet the characters in real life.
Client
In partnership with The Foundry.
For the Pause 2016.
Studio
Cravefx