Rosa "Sai" Salangsang

Momoko, the last axolotl, is frolicking outside their lake home when they encounter someone big.

This video is a part of a series titled, "Stories of Friends Made", where my four lonely characters are featured in four open-ended stories. This story took the longest because I was relatively new animating in Blender. Because keyframes are involved, I quickly developed a workflow that's somewhat similar to the one I developed for After Effects. The hardest part was rigging the models, especially Momoko. While most of the models were handmade in Blender, some of them were photogrammetry models that I made with PolyCam. It took a lot of patience, but I eventually rendered four Blender animations and editted them in After Effects.

This video can also be viewed at New Art City

You can also visit Momoko's Lake Home here!