A contribution on Checkmate short film

April 02. 2011, under 3D Animation with No Comments

Checkmate is a short film produced by Maya Weidner and directed by Laura Smith
For more info please visit Checkmate on Facebook

I’ve met the director Laura Smith while Checkmate under production and we discussed one of the opening scenes which needs some animation.

The scene is showing the hero walking in a sad mood and we needed to add some chess pieces to look at him in a sad mood as well.

I made this animation (playblast)

 

During the process of this very short animation work I’ve gone through some experimentations: I was experimenting how to rig a chess piece.

It was fun but took me around 3 days to rig the middle chess piece.