Doodles - Stoodio Launch Film

Role: Lead Compositor
Year: 2023

Having started as a collection of NFT PFPs, the Doodles team are building a global media and entertainment brand.
For this Launch Film, I was working as comp lead as well as the edit.
This included camera work, animation of secondary elements and fx as well as 3D Setups for some of the shots. You’ll find some progress shots below.

Managing Director/Executive Producer: Dotti Sinnott
Creative Director: Sammy Moore
Head of Production: Heidi Stephenson
Creative Talent Director: Henry Purrington
Art Director: Charles Bigeast
Animation Lead: Stephanie Mercier
Senior Producer: Rebekah Hamilton
Production Manager: Lucy Caetano
Production Coordinator: Dani Bordelon
Resource Coordinator: Bea Rodrigues
Storyboard: Stephanie Mercier
Design: Sammy Moore, Cendan Claiborne, Eliot Lockwood, Thomas Eide, Nick Stoney, Alexander Hellebaut, Rachel Shin
Animation: Stephanie Mercier, Tim Whiting, Thomas Eide, Ian Chan, Eliot Lockwood, Paul Kartachov, Rory Byrne, Desi Garrido, Alfie Bogush
Compositing: Michael Müller, Paul Cheshire, Ian Pinder, Karl Fekete,
Animation Clean Up: Pudoctopus
Music: "4EVA - KaytrAminé featuring Pharrell"
Sound Design & Mix: Take Your Medicine

Some of the Shots I worked on:

Some more progress shots. On both of the shots it faced a similar challenges: For the 360 shot, a key solution was to place all the background elements inside of a 3D sphere on multiple distance levels, where each element would face the camera.
I used textured toruses for the clouds. For the green ribbon, I placed a spline throughout the spherical scene.

This shot faced a key challenge: To recreate a camera move that followed along with the 2D Animation in a way that made sense. I started out with a random point cloud to get a better idea of how much distance would be covered with each move. As soon as that looked believable, I was able to start placing the styleframe elements.