Koda Tribe Entertainment

project brief

For California based production company Koda Tribe Entertainment I had the pleasure to create this logo / title animation based on their trademark logo. I was only provided with the logo and from there had complete freedom to create something that would reflect the vision of the two female founders of the company.

Zbrush modeling & Cinema4d rigging

I knew I needed the statues for the animation so before concepting the animation with a storyboard I modeled the statue in ZBrush based on the logo. Then rigged and weighted the model in Cinema4D, as I had to create the raising arms and head movement. Since the movement is very slow and subtle, a simple forward kinematic was good enough, rather than an full IK character rig.

styleframes

After modeling the statue I created a bunch of styleframes to find the right mood for the animation. Later on I decided to go for a solid gold look for the 35mm film strip as well.

storyboarding

The storyboard I created in Adobe Fresco. It's a great tool to sketch out ideas and even storyboards, to then eventually send over to Photoshop with one click. I'm not the best storyboard artist, but it was important in this case to have consistent storytelling through the animation and keep the overall concept together.

score

I also created the music in this case. I had a reference track early on in the project to help set the mood and really got used to it. So I composed a similar track from scratch in Ableton Live with the Spitfire Symphonic Orchestra and some synth pads with Arturia Pigments in addition to a few soundFX like the 35mm film projector.