
Panda Express. Lunar New Year
Finally, we got to make a project with a dragon in it!
Together with our friends at our friends over at Animagic, we were asked to bring Discord user comments to life with the help of a couple of Internet celebrities. What resulted was a crazy multi-textured world filled with a mix of 2D and 3D characters.
Early character sketches and scene exploration.
We wanted to bring across a sense of a weird and kind of crazy world where anything was possible, including sexy armchairs in go-go boots. All of the characters needed to feel bizarre and unique. We then gave each one to a different animator, to make sure they all felt different, kind of like the people who use Discord. In the end, the mashup of styles and personalitites came together to feel just like a Discord chatroom: you never know who or what to expect.