The SuccesorS 6 Opening Title

The Successors season 6 is a TV show featuring stories from descendants of notable family businesses in Asia so the idea of this opening title is to capture the essence of a family business passing on from generation to generation.  The show can be watched on Channel NewsAsia or their Toggle website.

 

Having been given the idea and storyboard from the pre-production team, my job was to come up with an art direction, production pipeline to work with the team. As a project leader, I was in charge of guiding my teammate to get the right models during the sculpting stage and reviewing the animation. The models were retopologized in Maya and rigged using Advanced Skeleton Tools, the props are textured using Subtance Painter. Our biggest obstacle was to converted the characters' 3D animation into a textured sequences on the abacus' beads. The character's sequences were animated in Maya, rendered using Vray and compiled in After Effect, then they were converted to diffuse and normal map sequences used as texture maps for the beads.