Musical Monkeys

Type: Commercial

Client: Ravensburger | Production: Namoto | Post Producer: Maggy Fischer | Animation & VFX Supervisor: Manuel Kotulla | Animation & VFX Team: Manuel Kotulla, Inés Koßack, Timon Patris, Tanja Kerner

Tasks: Character Design Monkeys, Modeling, Rigging; Adult Monkey Animation, Rendering, Compositing
Software: C4D, ZBrush, Akeytsu, Redshift, BMD Fusion

In this TV Commercial the animals from a children‘s book wake up and jump into the real world. My part in this project was to bring the monkeys to live.

Character Design

The monkeys’ design was based on the actual illustrations in the book, but changed substantially to make them more appealing in 3D.

Animation

Apart from the monkeys’ creation, I also animated them in this shot.

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