Musical Monkeys

Type: Commercial

Client: Ravensburger
Production: Namoto | Post Producer: Maggy Fischer | Animation & VFX Supervisor: Manuel Kotulla | Animation & VFX Team: Manuel Kotulla, Inés Koßack, Timon Patris, Tanja Kerner

Tasks: Character Design Monkeys, Modeling, Rigging; Adult Monkey Animation, Rendering, Compositing
Software: C4D, ZBrush, Akeytsu, Redshift, BMD Fusion

In this TV Commercial the animals from a children‘s book wake up and jump into the real world. My part in this project was to bring the monkeys to live.

Animation

I animated, rendered and composited the monkey’s graphics and effects in one shot.

Shot 08 | 0:07 - 0:08

Character Design

Apart from the animation I also worked on the design, modeling and rigging of the monkeys.

The monkeys’ design was based on the actual illustrations in the book, but changed substantially to make them more appealing in 3D.

Breakdown