The purpose of the diploma thesis titled 3D costume and character design for a short animated film by authorial content is to present the process of creating stylised photorealistic fantasy character with costumography and its living environment and to then present everything in a short 3D animation. Short animated film is set in a fantasy land of Eldorija, where Aurora, protagonist of the film and the main focus of our diploma thesis lives. Inspiration for costume and character design is an entertwinement of distinctive shapes of Art Nouveau and contemporary clothes, mostly 3D dresses from designer Iris Van Herpen, while the atmosphere of the film originates from Romantic and Symbolist movement of the 19. century or paintings of that time, to be exact. After studying literature on animation, character design, meaning of costumography, its importance on understading the character and artistic-intellectual movements, styles and eras that inspired our design we started with experimental part of our diploma. First we sketched the character with costumes and edited the background image in Adobe Photoshop and Procreate iOS. Program Makehuman was used to make the character’s body, which we later upgraded with sculpting in open-source program Blender, where we also created all elements of the costume and environment, created and added materials and textures to all objects, rigged the character, made simulations, defined the camera movement, rendered the final images and created digital stop-motion animation.
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