Work In Progress

9 June 2017

Work In Progress is a short animated movie about a factory employee that is confronted with it's place in the circle of progress.

i like to see this movie as a continuation of an older project: Monday Morning. I wanted to continue combining 2D and 3D animation.

the development of the movie started out with the idea of how i could combine human ethics with cold mechanical logic. we use our machines until they become obsolete. it's only logical that older models get replaced by better newer ones. We humans however don't work like that because we have ethics.

The movie is set in a giant factory where hundreds of employees are working hard creating newer versions of themselves. what they don't know however is that the material they use to make new employees consists of the remains of older employees. One employee finds out about this and refuses to be a part of this endless circle. He soon is confronted with the question what purpose he has left when he becomes obsolete.

part 1: first I created the 3D models and rigs and made sure that everything was ready to animate

part 2: i created the moving textures while I was animating the 3D models. the textures had to be in sync with the movement of the characters

part 3: i exported the images two times. One time with the limbs and one time without .

part 4: using toon boom i drew over the 3D arms to create 2D animated arms. In the final version i then removed the original 3D arms .

this is what the textures look like when they are unwrapped. this is how i drew them before placing them over the 3D models