“Avatara” by Cheng
Conference:
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SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 07
Title:
- Avatara
Length:
- 2:58
Director(s):
Description:
This short film was originally inspired by the creator’s experience of the bonds that people and plants share, and the residual energy left between a tree and its planter. The film encourages people to engage with nature more freely and more frequently, and it hopes to promote protection of the world’s environment.“Avatara” was produced with a program that is not traditionally used to produce animations of this complexity and scale. Within the animation, there are 1,684 non-repeating frames that were individually painted by hand using a graphics tablet. Unlike most MA animation projects in the UK,this film was produced by only one student instead of a team, and it was created in a much shorter amount of time than most other MA projects.
Additional Contributors:
Story: Kam-Li Cheng
Character Design/Storyboard/Background: Kam-Li Cheng
Art Director: Kam-Li Cheng
Music Director: Ethan Lewis Maltby
Composer: Ethan Lewis Maltby
Animator: Kam-Li Cheng
Editor: Kam-Li Cheng
Research & Development: Kam-Li Cheng
Producer: University of Sunderland
Acknowledgement: Alison Snowden (Advisor)