Danone Hippo

Character design for Avion Films for Danone Germany 3D animated TV spot on which I worked last summer. I loved creating these animal characters and at that job I learned what is necessary for the designs to be easily adapted into 3D by the modelling staff. Before the commercial was finished, I had to leave because another job was waiting for me, so I didn't see the final animation. Now my friend found it on the net and it was pretty cool to see something like that realized! (Though, at the same time I was kind of disappointed by the eyes of the animals which were diverging and made the characters look kind of dead... But I guess there wasn't time to bother with eyes and it's not my place to ponder about it )

Here is the link to the commercial: [link] (I love how the hippo smiles :3 )

A part of this commercial ( [link] ) is also on youtube where I did the blowfish character design and matte painting of the corals. Yeah, and the dead starfish design too