12 Years - 3D Short, Subtle Facial Animation

[schmiddl]

Hi,
last year I did modeling, blendshapes and animation for a short called "12 years" by german director
Daniel Nocke. It premiered at this years Berlinale film festival (Berlin, Germany).

Click on the image to watch the film:


Our goal for the animation was to reproduce the very subtle human expressions that usually just
float across the face for a couple of frames or seconds. It was a lotta fun (and work) to transfer
them to the dogs faces . To speed up the process we worked very closely with video references
of the voice actors playing their parts. The original version features german language, but only
the english version is online.

Greetz,
Martin

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[Nukie]

Oi, very nice facial animation (I hate that word: facial).

[L10N]

brilliant, simply brilliant. You really brought the emotion across. I found myself really understanding both of them. As far as you can from a film anyway