Deep Battered Love is a Short film by myself and Sophie Indraputri.
Entailing the forbidden love story of an unlikely duo, Deep Battered Love is a comedic romantic film.
We decided on 2 derpy characters: a pigeon and a fish. We really wanted to use that unlikely duo trope, and make it as funny as possible. Below are some character iterations:
I finalised the design for our pigeon character "Pidge"
I modelled Pidge directly in Maya, and rigged him using Rapid Rig. Reflecting upon my work now, I would probably refine the model further through a sculpting process.
The environment was based off a real fish and chips shop in Perth 'Cicerellos'. I mapped out the story action throughout the environment and then started to model a proxy set.
The style was inspired by stop-motion animation, aiming for a clay look and handmade set. I used substance painter to map a clay displacement.
Below are some concept arts I painted in Procreate for some key moments of the film:
