Food Chain
The Challenge
The goal is to create an educational video for Sesame Street. This project will combine all our knowledge of 2D and 3D animation as well as the hand skills learned in Animation Techniques to create a whimsical, tactile and fun animation for one of the world's most successful franchises.
Exploring 5 different mediums in this animation, seamlessly combine: 2D animation, Hand Drawn, Stop-Motion, 3D Animation & Live-Action.
Designed & animated by Olive Mei and Sehee Kim
The Food Chain
A food chain is a way to show how energy and nutrients are passed from one organism to another in the ecosystem. Plants (producers) are at the base. Herbivores (primary consumers) eat the plants, then carnivores (secondary consumers) eat the herbivores. There might be tertiary consumers that eat the carnivores, and so on. Decomposers break down the remains of dead organisms, returning nutrients to the soil, which in turn nourishes the plants, restarting the cycle.
Design Approaches
Direction 1: 2.5D stage puppet dominate
Direction 2: 3D dominate
Style Frames
Process
Cel animated face expression on 3d elements.
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Live Action for burping.
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Stop motion for worm’s reaction.
