ANIKE

This year we'll be attending the Manchester Animation Festival, just for a day, on Wednesday! It's the first time for us so excited to see how it's like.

We reached our goal on Kickstarter!

In 19 days we managed to raise £28K! Just thinking about it makes my head spin. We still have 11 days to go but having reached the goal already relieves a bit of the pressure.

If you wanna join the campaign consider pledging:

Let's explore how we did the table fan in the first short of the teaser trailer for Grattachecca.

It all started from the animatic panel from @bixels

Having mechanical animation is always problematic, if you're not Gainax in the 90s that is, so we went and modelled a 3D fan in Blender, using a cute vintage teal table fan found on the internet as reference

Very cool, then we posed it using the animatic as reference and ✨animated✨ it. It is just a rotation on the Z axis of the head of the fan, but some (not so) clever origin setting and parenting saved the day.

Then we rendered it on transparent background and checked the timing on the animatic

Finally brought the rendered frames on CSP for iPad and traced and bucket filled every 3 frame

Aaaaand all done!

If you'd like to see more, consider supporting us on Kickstarter:

This is the first half of the teaser trailer for Grattachecca, our indie animated short!

Watch the full teaser here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/anikestudio/grattachecca?ref=7jb6wa

10 days to trailer drop and campaign launch!

And here's Marco! Second protagonist of Grattachecca.

Stoic and hard working, he put his only family and sister, Gio, first, no matter how hot this summer is going to get.

Character design by @tulliok

We’re going to be at this year’s Annecy Festival!

If you’re around and wanna say hi, drop us a DM, we’ll also have goodies 👀

Final piece of environment concept art for Grattachecca.