After an intense eight months of planning and animating, I am pleased to present my AUT Digital Design graduation capstone project...

After four intensive months of planning, testing, storyboarding, modelling, texturing, rigging, animating, rendering, compositing,...

As a bonus addition prior to my final submission, I rendered an 8-second turntable video of the cell-shaded Troy model, which a sped-up...

My first attempt at drawing a 2D animation for Shot 02 did not to well, mainly due to my lack of experience with Adobe Animate, and...

With test screenings in class and with the teacher, I got criticism regarding my colour scheme, with too many saturated colours fighting...

For the 2D characters that would interact with the 3D furries, I thought the best way to do this was through lineless vector shapes...

With both CG characters all modelled, textured, and rigged, it was time to bring life to them in the form of animation. The first step...

In a compressed production cycle, it was ideal for me to plan out the overall making of The Joys of Being Furry to ensure I get the...

With the two 3D characters mostly-completed, it was time to construct 3D props for them to interact with and to serve the environment...

It was advisable to us that we should create a mock screenshot to see if the style and colouring would be possible to create, as well as...

Creating a model with a custom-built rig purely in Maya was a failure in my eyes due to the numerous technical issues, so I decided to...

Starting off with creating the main character of Troy was important, as he is among one of the most vital parts of the documentary. My...

After submitting the pre-production package of The Joys of Being Furry, I received surprising positive feedback from assignment teacher...

With the transcript of the 40 seconds I chose from the interview, I had to visually plan The Joys of Being Furry through storyboarding....

To help give a consistent visual aesthetic to certain scenes in The Joys of Being Furry, I drew up a character sheet of Jonathan's...

To begin researching on the ambitious animated documentary, we were advised to look into four animated short films (under eight minutes...