Project summary and synopsis

This project aims to deepen my knowledge about the character and environment design. Indeed this project is to create a 3D animated short film because that is what I studied for. So, the goal will be to successfully create a good environment and a good character design to lead to a good result. The fact that it is a animated short film helps to take into account the design in relation with the scenario and that is why we'll have to focus on the psychological profile of the characters.

Here is the synopsis written by Arnaud Boulanger:

It is a story about a chef, he was one of the best chefs in the town, he transformed an old subway car into a restaurant. But now, he lost his popularity and his job because of the new society. All the traditional restaurants had to close because of a new revolutionary burger company. Every night, he goes home to his former subway car which he now uses as home, throws his clothes away, puts on the TV and goes order a burger with a new electronic machine. It takes between 20 and 30 sec to get a burger and within seconds, the subway car will begin to tremble slightly and two of the many items of the kitchen, namely an electric mixer and the pepper mill, will start to transform. From that moment, the objects will try to take the burger from the chef, and a couple of things will happen, for example; the electric mixer will shoot the burger with one of his whip and the pepper mill will catch the burger and goes away with it! At the end, the pepper mill crushes the burger with a book. The chef is scared and goes to take the book, that is when he realizes that the book actually is his own cookbook. The subway car will tremble and kind of recompose itself, there is going to be a sort of zoom out and we will come out of the eyes of the chef. Everything that happened was just an internal struggle, an inside fight. He is holding the book in his hands and realizes he has to become the great chef he used to be again.

In this work I deal with the design of the Chef, the robot, the metro station, and some of the objects inside the car so that it could fit with the scenario and the camera plans.