IMPACT – Animated Short

‘IMPACT’ is hands down one of the best Blender shorts I’ve seen this year! Excellent story line, great animation and fantastic sound design – enjoy!

Plyro writes:

With the mission to find life, a lonely alien scientist roams the endless vastness of space. It quickly becomes clear that he has to protect is fragile discovery from extinction.

Impact is my master’s thesis and the final project for my studies within the program M.F.A. Media Art & Design at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. I am responsible for all visual aspects of the 3D animated short; only for music and sound I sought the support of Maximilian Zwiener and Christoph Stötzer.

For modeling, rigging & animation I used Blender; the textures were designed with Substance Painter. The film was rendered in Cycles, which made it possible to process the whole film over the course of a month on just three consumer PCs (GPUs).