The team even created a script which added random fingerprints on the pseudo-clay character models, to make it convincingly real.Īnother odd couple features in Supinfocom Arles’ Ascension, which features two climbers attempting to take a statue of the Virgin Mary to the summit of a mountain in the French Alps. So viewers will be surprised to learn that it was made almost entirely on a computer, with V-Ray rendered CG characters over a hand-crafted backdrop. “V-Ray allowed us to have flexibility between a raytraced, globally illuminated environment, and easy to create but effective shading networks for stylized look dev.” It feels like something its creators would have poured hours into, thanks to the notoriously painstaking nature of stop-motion animation. While the off-kilter story combines black humour and slapstick, it’s Roommate Wanted’s claymation aesthetic which makes it stand out.

What makes this worse is that the cohabitee in question is a zombie – another element most students can relate to. Roommate Wanted, from The Animation Workshop in Denmark, tells a story every student can relate to: the roommate from hell. Here we’d like to share a few of our favorites. A big part of the fun is seeing future directors and artists explore filmmaking and effects, and V-Ray, our rendering software, has been behind a number of impressive student shorts. We here at Chaos Group love student shorts for their inventiveness, and their ability to show us a new take on familiar worlds, or build new ones.

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