The models of the Stranded were designed to feel generally realistic with some stylization to match our character, and damaged like they had been through a crash leading to the jagged edges featured on many of the objects.
Daytime lighting proved to be a fun challenge. Each shot is tailored to it's respective focus while also keeping each shot feeling like the light source was the same.
The title cards were a fun experiment drawing from 1940s Merrie Melodies, Walt Disney Animations, and Looney Tunes title card art.
Stranded is a 20 second animated short modeled in Autodesk Maya and rendered using Renderman 25.
Stranded follows a shipwrecked crow named Hardee as he waits impatiently for any form of help to arrive. Although he's been there a while, there might be help on the way sooner than he thinks. Unless of course, something were to go wrong...
I was the lead modeling and lighting artist for Stranded, responsible for most of the prop models and the lighting in the short. I was also the environment concept artist responsible for creating iterations for our potential environment.
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