Ascend To Zero - Visual Development
My first real anime project at Chase A Cloud. I am extremely happy with how it turned out, and I feel honoured I could contribute significantly to the character design process, the layouts, the animatic, and the 2D VFX designs. The biggest challenge for me was adapting the client's original game character design to an anime art style suitable for animation, giving her our unique take while retaining her recognizability and iconic features. Went through a ton of iterations before it landed. Special thanks to the Chase A Cloud team, Sava Komitski and Alexandra Proynova, for their art direction and guidance.
Credits:
Client: Flayway Games
Art Direction: Sava Komitski, and Alexandra Proynova.
Clean up & Colour: Declan van West, and Alicia Cañadas Marcos, Marta Rico Solsona.
Colour script: Kevin Gnutzmans
Character Animation: Shashi Shekhar, Garai Vorm
BG: Kevin Gnutzmans, Yana Georgieva, Zack Adame.
3D & Compositing: Alexandar Nachev, Radostin Stefanov
VFX: Sahil Sadave, Axel Rousselot
Music, Mix & Master: Big Bite Records
Producer: Pollyna Vucheva
Early keyframe concept
Early sand monster concept
Early mecha concept
BG and colour script by Kevin Gnutzmans.
BG and colour script by Kevin Gnutzmans.
BG and colour script by Kevin Gnutzmans.
BG and colour script by Kevin Gnutzmans.
BG and colour script by Kevin Gnutzmans.
Lighting guide
Clean up by Declan van West, and Alicia Cañadas Marcos.
BG and colour script by Kevin Gnutzmans.
Lighting guide
Clean up by Declan van West, and Alicia Cañadas Marcos.