Every spring break I challenge myself to make one large project in the 8 or 9 days I have to myself, and this was the project for the spring of 2025. I was responsible for all aspects apart from the audio, which was done by Gavin James (link to his soundcloud).
I made this incredibly loose concept art and storyboard to show my mentor my ideas and to explain some design choices.
For Example, the Cinephiles jaw muscles are incredibly large and pointy because he’s always clenching his teeth due to how infuriated he is that you haven’t seen all the movies he likes.
And the other character is mostly meant to contrast him, as well as being as chill of a guy as possible.
As for the storyboard, some elements of the story and camera angles ended up changing a lot especially the end due the fact that I wanted to make it more bizarre than cartoonish.
I’m also really proud of this dandruff simulation I made for the cinephile character. It’s done by putting a transparent proxy mesh over the hair that has a particle simulation of a couple random ‘flake’ particles. On top of that, there are two simulations, one to have the static dandruff, and one that makes some of it fall to the ground.
The second effect was a bit hard to see in the final version just due to the particles being so small and sometimes blipping out of existence during the sampling process.