Painted Flower is a short funny short animation about 2 little girls in painting class: Su and Sy. Su is trying to paint as close as possible to the real flower pot but Sy has something else in mind. Su is pretty much happy with her drawing until she looks at Sy’s painting. The animation is done with a little bit of anime style conveying a simple message: “Be yourself, be creative”.
Painted Flower character was created in Autodesk Maya and then rendered in real-time using UR 4.12 with numerous of studio's in-house tool used to aid the production.
“Painted Flower is our debut short animation utilizing power of Unreal Engine 4 to showcase the ability of producing quality animation in short amount of time. This animation is built to refine our existing animation pipeline and is an opportunity to develop more tools and workflow to perfect the pipeline of animation production between UE4 and other 3D software packages. We are also going to release a number of in-house tool used to aid the production” – Phung Dinh Dzung – Founder – Thunder Cloud Studio
"Thunder Cloud Studio is a remarkable boutique studio with a great group of 3D artists and animators. Their enthusiasm for the art and craft of 3D animation is a pleasure to see. With this most recent experiment using UNREAL ENGINE 4 you can see a preview of the quality Thunder Cloud Studio is going to deliver."– John McIntosh, Board of Directors – Visual Effect society, BYC, Chairman – SVA, school of Visual Arts.
"I was very fortunate to visit Thunder Cloud Studio on a recent visit to Hanoi and it was exciting to meet Phung Dinh Dung and his team of artists. In Vietnam it seems as if the commercial is mostly located in Saigon but as you can see the best creative work is in Hanoi."– John added.
Let's check out the film:
VR demo is available soon and The Unreal Engine in-house plugin which used for the firm will be release by studio soon. Before that, Thunder Cloud Studio was known as a creator of very handy plugin GMH2 for Maya which is easily to model complex hair styles using traditional polygon modeling method and convert to Maya Hair.
Credits:
Director, Storyboard & Character Design: Phung Dinh Dung
Producer & Voice Actress: Hoang Thuy Dung
Environment Design, Character Build & Animation: Phan Thanh Truc
Animation: Tran Viet Tiep, Cao Ngoc Chau
Character modeling: Ha Vu Huy Duc
Props & Environment Build: Duong Duy Thai, Le Hoang Nam
Music Composer: Nguyen Uy Vu
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