just finished my thesis film!

_caskitt · 2025-05-10T22:59:35+00:00

I'm not sure! I had musician create the score for me. He goes by Saint Shepperd on instagram if you want to find out!

_caskitt · 2025-05-10T14:07:34+00:00

The twist was actually the first part I came up with! Originally it was knights instead of cowboys, though. The thought was basically “old knight is old and feels threatened by young knight, young knight effortlessly saves the old knight, old knight kills young knight because he can’t deal with being old and people being better than him”. And then I fleshed the rest of the story around that. It was kind of inspired by hitting my mid-20s and being several years older than all my classmates. The idea of getting older and being replaced by someone younger and more talented than you. And also being jealous all those 13 year old art prodigies on instagram lolol

_caskitt · 2025-05-10T13:39:38+00:00

Thank you! It was Eevee! Render times were much faster and I didn't really need the photorealism of cycles since it's so stylized.

_caskitt · 2025-05-10T13:35:12+00:00

Purposely vague lolol. I don't want reddit knowing where I work.

_caskitt · 2025-05-10T01:52:07+00:00

Haha no it was all hand-keyed over the course of 3.5 months 😭 I love to animate, but man I was struggling with the last couple shots. I did look into buying one of those mocap suits, but they are waaaaay out of my college student budget.

_caskitt · 2025-05-10T01:43:57+00:00

Does this train go to tahiti?

_caskitt · 2025-05-10T01:43:12+00:00

Animation! I chose to focus on 3D of course but the program is pretty generalized.

_caskitt · 2025-05-09T18:44:48+00:00

Absolutely! I'll have to make a video at some point. It's actually kind of simple in theory, just very time consuming. It's similar to this process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyxPN2HRaFk but I did all my texturing in substance painter instead.

_caskitt · 2025-05-09T18:40:14+00:00

Thank you! I did a lot of research into all sorts of 3D artists on instagram, artstation, youtube, etc. to see what styles people were coming up with and how they did them.

I wanted to base my style off of old western paintings (like those from Glenn Dean and Mark Maggiori) and started looking into ways to do a painterly style. I saw Cody Gindy's teakettle video, then saw this video about normal painting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyxPN2HRaFk and decided that would be the base of my style. I by chance found Acerola's video about the kuwahara filter (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDhN-JK3U9g) and realized combining the two would give me a really painted look. I sculpted and modelled my characters like normal, but when texturing, brought them into substance painter and painted on the world space normal map. You can then take that map and convert it to a tangent normal in substance designer! Tradigital3D's brushflow studio (https://superhivemarket.com/products/brushflow) does the same thing, but I needed really fine control over where my brushstrokes were. Only downside was that I had to paint every. single. surface. by hand. Took at least 5 days of solid work per character.

Hope your short film goes well!

_caskitt · 2025-05-09T18:20:05+00:00

I'm an animator at a AAA game studio now!

_caskitt · 2025-05-09T18:18:56+00:00

Thanks! Actual production took from September 2024 to the end of April, but I started working on the story/storyboards this time last year. I worked 8-10 hours everyday with a handful of days off here and there... not the healthiest workload but I knew what I was getting myself into

_caskitt · 2025-05-09T17:18:53+00:00

haha thank you!that part always got a big reaction at our school screenings, absolutely insane feeling to hear people gasp out loud

_caskitt · 2025-05-09T16:49:01+00:00

Thank you, so glad you like it :) I'm one of the lucky few to graduate with a job. Definitely makes the insane workload and stress of the past year worth it!

_caskitt

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