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Fit

Animography’s “Word-a-Week”: Fit

‘A word, a week.’ is an ongoing collaboration where artists choose 1 word and create a short animation based on that while incorporating one of Animography's animated typefaces. Having complete creative freedom was a bit daunting, but I used it as an opportunity to flesh out a short story and try to show off some new skills, which in this case, was blending some 3D & 2D styles.

Story, Design & Animation: Zak Tietjen

Sound Design: Chad Wahlbrink at Sono Sanctus

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I wanted to keep the character fairly simple since the timeline was short, but explore realistic shading on the head.

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I also created a short teaser for social platforms. This was originally a scene in the full video that I didn’t think fit into the overall narrative, but it’s a good mysterious teaser!

I really wanted the objects in this video to be 3D, while the character is animated in 2D. Figuring out how to blend the two styles was a fun challenge.

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