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My goal was to mix 3D and 2D animations similar to the Gorrilaz music Video aesthetics and to try out rotoscoping and cel shading. All of those techniques can be found in the clip.

The scenery was inspired by a recent visit to Paris its surrounding arrondisments. I build it Cinema 4D and rendered it with octane. By using Light passes I was able to modify the whole lighting scenario in Post like the neon light flicker to the beat or the traffic light in the middleground.

By adding different elements like the car, the train, the dancing neighbor, the equalizer windows and the changing lights I tried to break up the simple loop and give the whole scene more variety.

2D Elements that I handpainted in Photoshop and After Effects. The Smoke Elements were drawn without reference and the human characters were based on reference footage that I shot of myself.

The car was is a free 3D model from the internet. I rendered it with the Cinema 4D standard renderer since Octane didn't have good Cel Shading shaders at the time.