It’s been a while since we made this little short, kind of a hybrid between free, creator-owned work and an edutainment commission made for a consultancy specialized on occupational psychology.
We had full creative freedom, only client-side requirement was to showcase how frustration & failure in a professional environment relates to mindset and capability to act calmly and self-organized.
So instead of making some boring real world stuff we went full fantasy and created a little story about two makers of magic books, Nelson and Rita, and their associate Lozerd, the lizard.
Except the first 3 shots which were rendered in Cycles, the short was rendered in Eevee on 2.8.
Character concepts:
The workshop’s stash (concept):
Some doodling with ideas:
Their main tool, the squeezer:
That damn book on black holes …
Fighting the phone …
Here’s the full short:
… and, finally, shamelessly reused, the X-mas and Happy-New-Year card we made:
