“Tezcatlipoca” by Southern Adventist University
Conference:
SIGGRAPH Video Review:
Track:
- 37
Title:
- Tezcatlipoca
Director(s):
Company / Institution / Agency:
- Southern Adventist University
Description:
“Tezcatlipoca” is a three-minute animation inspired by the music from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. In the tradition of Walt Disney’s “Fantasia”, it combines the elements of classical music and imaginative animation to retell the Aztec myth of Tezcatlipoca, the deity who descends from heaven in the form of a jaguar.
“Tezcatlipoca” was a senior project at Southern Adventist University’s School of Visual Art and Design. From September 2007 to January 2009, the film moved from conception to completion as a solo project, from storyboards and animatics, to modeling, rigging, texturing, preliminary set design, character animation, and ultimately to final sets, backgrounds, lighting, rendering, and finally compositing.
Software:
Maya 2008, Vue6, Realflow, Blastcode, After Effects CS3, Z-Brush 3
Additional Contributors:
Director: Robin George
Story: Robin George
Art Director: Robin George
Animator: Robin George
Compositor: Robin George
Lava Simulation: Chris Wombold
Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky
Production: School of Visual Art and Design, Southern Adventist University
Acknowledgements: Special thanks to Aaron Adams, Zach Gray, and Chris Wombold
