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This year's Pictoplasma theme, doomsday, inspired the trailer for the world’s largest festival of contemporary character culture to tell a story around a Macy's Day parade full of twisted characters. Far from the gloom and doom which usually goes along end of day stories, our creatures invade a vacant city and make it their own.

The initial idea was to do the whole movie in 3d and to render everything directly out of the view port. Over time we decided to draw over those basic renders and to layer the images to get some parallax in the final movie.
It was my job to define the overall style of the film by drawing all the backgrounds, define the light situation and build the shader and render setup for the creatures.

CREDITS
Client: Pictoplasma
Product: Pictoplasma Conference and Festival 2012
Director: Mate Steinforth
Art Direction: Philipp Broemme, Christian Zschunke, Julius Brockelmann
3D: Christian Hoffmann, David Weidemann, Ronny Schmidt, Christian Zschunke, Adrian Azadvaten
Compositing: Christian Zschunke, Helge Kiehl
Animation: David Weidemann, Chris Hoffmann, Pascal Monaco, Felix Meyer
Concept: Peter Thaler, Mate Steinforth
Music: "Miniatur" written by David Kamp, performed by "Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester"
Sound Design: David Kamp

And here some frames I drew for look development:

And the making of by Adrian Azadvaten: