The Christmas Surprise
Time Frame: 12.2015
The Christmas Surprise is the beginning of an animation in which a boy doesn’t believe in Santa. His dad plays Santa to convice his son he is real, but then gets caught in the act by the real Santa.
Responsibilities
Creating character models
Minecraft Steve as the main character
A smaller son
Santa
A reindeer
All textures except the one for the reindeer were taken from a website hosting free Minecraft avater skins
Creating the environments
Setup was done in the video game Minecraft, and an external tool was used to export the environments as .obj files
Rigging, animating, lighting and rendering
Editing and adding audio
Recording voice overs
Turntables
