Percy Cat of the Seas
Date
2020-2025
Some behind the scenes on my final year project, about a silly cat pirate who during one of her adventures comes across a thunder storm. For this project I used both Autodesk Maya and TV Paint.
Final short film:


The pre production process:
I knew I wanted to do a pirate character from the beginning, so I started to do some initial sketches to get ideas going and eventually the idea of a cat pirate came to me as I thought it would be comedic.

Testing colour palettes

Simplifying character shape language

Storyboard:









The ocean i found was really tricky to animate, so i tried my best to simplify as much as I could.



Production Process:
The opening shot was rotoscoped using a boat model made in Autodesk Maya. The character animation was animated pose to pose, the 2D VFX were done straight ahead.
Opening shot breakdown using maya model and rotoscoping
2D VFX