Our team created Remnants to convey a story of the past, reflecting on what had become of the future.

Taking inspiration from works such as Little Nightmares, the soundtracks of The Evil Within 2 and visual novel games. We've incorporated a 3D environment and character with 2D animations to better reflect our story and our capabilities individually.

2D ANIMATION

My main work on this project in terms of what you see in the final product were the animated loops for the grandfather remnant. These, start to finish, were created in Clip Studio Paint EX.

I began with a redesign of the original character design by Jake, in order to bring down the line count. Then, I started with drawing the pose on its own, then moving onto a rough animation to figure out the motion, then cleaning that up and coloring it. It was exported into an image sequence, and brought into Unreal as a flipbook.

Animated Expressions for the Grandfather Remnant:

3D ANIMATION

My role throughout this production is 3D Animation. I have had so much fun creating these animations, and adjusting the different aspects I didn't enjoy that much, so that I could get the walk and idle animations to where they are today. Throughout this production, there have been a lot of different changes that have hit us, and changed the way we have all worked as a team, though, we are so happy to show our finished product, and i am especially excited for people to go through our interactive experience, and watch how. the characters animations are being used throughout the game.

Below i have included a variety of different renders and angles of play-blasts all from my process of creating these animations, to get the finished, polished versions. I have got some other animations that we didn't end up using just because we simply ran out of time due to re-scoping the project multiple times, in order to get a completed experience, that works, and something people can still be immersed in, even without the creature animation being a minor thing missing.

MAIN CHARACTER WALK CYCLE

MAIN CHARACTER'S IDLE ANIMATION

CREATURE ANIMATION (DIDN'T MAKE FINAL CUT DUE TO RE-SCOPE)

CG Environment Art

Since we were utilizing a sidescroller viewpoint, I purposely had to guide the player's attention to one side of the rooms and made sure that it was spaced out correctly, there were no lacking spots that felt empty and redundant, and that it served purpose as to tell a story through the environment. This was both difficult to manage but also extremely fulfilling as it pushed my novice CG Environment Artist skills to be able to utilize a 3D space within a generally 2D sidescroller camera and movement usage. Having to utilize the perspective to implement specific shadows and cracks and crevices for light to go through.

I also took charge of implementing blueprints for how our text and dialogue would appear, including a fun little physics based blueprint to make an object fly out of screen into the viewport. It was a new and tiring venture for me but nonetheless fun and exciting as there was so much possibilities we could've implemented in the final build. I also made a few specific props and assets that suited the storyline and environment that I couldn't source through asset packs, which I placed throughout the walking simulator. Sadly I didn't have time to fully texture them but once they were placed within Unreal, the default textures and materials were fine to work with.

Film

Audio

Design