2D&3D Combined - Animated Water

I am slowly chipping away, creating these scenes for my film. I haven't yet designed the characters that will be in the film so I'm focusing on the cut scenes featuring nature that I am sure will make it in.
In this one I animate a small creek running through a forest setting. I explore more camera mapping techniques and combine my painted textures with the 3D models.
Hope you enjoy it.
2D&3D Combined - Animated Water by Olof Storm
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Watch my short film ''Sensations'' here : • Sensations (2019)
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What software am I using?
Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere, Cinema 4D (Currently with Redshift)

[@mikodesh]

I feel like saying "its so beautiful" wasnt enough. Its fuckn beautiful.

[@minombreesirrelevante4407]

agree, thats not enough! this is beyond beauty

[@LeszczynskiDavid]

LMAO

[@Plaufin]

It just seems so easy it would probably take 200 hours for me to learn this

[@MsTrash666]

2000 hours will be correct

[@simplesj5329]

Just go for it

[@josecolon2185]

5 hour sessions for 40 days. Just over a month doesn't seem like too much!

[@carlgoodwin9953]

Think your heads in a fantastic spot jose

[@minombreesirrelevante4407]

i think learning is the easy part, the execution would be the nightmare

[@RandomRobo]

perfect merging of 2d and 3d. Watching these are a real treat!

[@gusmaiawork]

I'd love a paid course on stuff like this but more technical/in-depth, please consider 😍

[@fridayimp7784]

Yeah the moss green on the rocks really did the job

[@MissE_Ali_5559]

Same

[@actually_romanoff]

Would love to see you "redesign" a scene from Spirited Away to 3D!

[@shyhrk]

This! This is what I want!

[@ArudanOfficial]

you're probably the only guy that gets to the bottom of things for animators who are seeking help of combining 2D and 3D. You see it a lot in anime (mainly Makato Shinkai's work) so your tutorials really help!

[@elissitdesign]

The glint off the rock in the middle is a wonderful touch. This scene reminds me of the cartoon 'Bambi' before the mother is killed--warm and peaceful. I would add gnats and swarming mosquitos! ha!

[@lightcer5339]

Biggest tool that made this all come together was projection mapping. Tbh it is probably the best technique you could possibly use other than a toon shader to bring a painterly look to your work. Projection mapping also comes in handy for making gradient style ambient occlusion effects that also help bring a stylistic vibe. It is literally so powerful.

[@opendstudio7141]

Very calm and soothing environment; a place that children would love to explorer. Also a good hangout for beetles, birds, trout, frogs and Sasquatch. :)

[@user-yx8lp2ds7z]

:)

[@HeavySpiral]

This looks really nice, good job KZbin recommendations.

[@RobotKongTV]

I've learned more in these 5 minutes than in many months of tutorials. If you want to know how to do this, listen to the techniques he used and get to learn and apply them.

[@jason.martin]

THis is my fav animation style. You did a great job in fusing the 2D and 3D style. So inspiring and creative

[@studiopixel]

Sorry, I have to say : you're a kind of genius.

[@Dr.JimmyBrungus]

Dude, I'm totally blown away by how well you combine different techniques. Really inspiring.

[@proc8468]

Throughout the entirety of this video I am thinking to myself "Now how am I going to do this?" I'm sure others feel the same, this is truly inspiring! Love the art!

[@ScottVanKirk]

beautiful scene

[@yezzzsir]

This is just the kind of look I'm after for my BG work. Thanks for the breakdown.

[@OlofStorm]

Good to hear! Cheers

[@finallyanime]

great way to think outside the box

[@probhakarsarkar2430]

They told me I need nirvana in life. But if I get all the skills u have, i can spend rest of my life without any more urge. Kudos man!!

[@banitalks6910]

Will really love to see more like these ❤

[@yoyoneel45]

Bruh, you're killing the game

[@aycanbasar]

I really want to explore more of this type of technique. Please keep sharing. So inspiring!

[@kystelportgasd.6011]

Just beatiful!!!

[@chanruzzi]

Subscribed and followed. You make some outstanding mix between 2D and 3D.

[@-._.-._.-._.-._.-._.-]

This get me so hyped about animation!!! I don't have enough time for this new hobby, please stop being so inspiring!!! I'd be sad if you stop, please continue =]

[@dpdp6920]

The ten dislikes are from people who r jealous they can’t do what you do. Keep up the great work!

[@iamYork_]

Beauty and genius combined... I am quite the fan... I enjoy your videos much much much°°° I say I say I say... type type type

[@sasogoricar82]

Awesome work.

[@sierra4603]

I love 2d/3d styles

[@HappySoDuh]

There needs to be more behind the scenes channels on this stuff. Its so amazing to see how this stuff is made, I never knew.

[@arthurb4309]

This piece is amazing and very inspiring. I'm a 3D animation student and sharing your process to achieve this work is very apreciated. Thank for that and have a great day !

[@Shteuf]

You’re an absolute genius man. This is such a great use for 3D. Must be pretty time consuming though but hey… passion, right!

[@ahmedshakib3883]

another masterclass.

[@grimsonpardo932]

Mindblown

[@RogerKilimanjaro]

Great breakdown! Thank you.

[@ReaZaaa]

Wow, just wow.

[@_Shahab_]

Everything is just AMAZING!! in what you do! Great job! incredible work! Thanks for sharing

[@whegazi]

Amazing .... exactly what i was looking for

[@raguel4416]

You deserve so many subscribers. Your work is just amazing.

[@AqooaKim]

I LOVE YOUR VIDEO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@activemotionpictures]

Awesome technique!

[@goosedaddy001]

Your videos are very inspirational. Thank you

[@personontheinternet304]

Man why are you so underrated? Glad I found your content

[@watevakid]

beautiful scene, nice work!

[@TheEleventeen]

Absolutely gorgeous looking animation ! Thank you Olof Storm for presenting it here !

[@demetresaghliani9048]

This is breathtaking. I wonder how one could go about doing this art style in a game. The rocks you could probably just paint on and import into the game engine. But I'm not sure how you could add moss onto it ⁠- and onto everything else. A system similar to grass, maybe, but I don't really know how that works. (I've only worked in 2D before.) The water, though... I don't know how to get highlights of that exact style. Or shadows, for that matter. The foam can be achieved with a particle system. It's just gorgeous.

[@ericbishop2461]

You'd be surprised what people can do with shaders and the like. Not that I could do anything like this though, it's crazy.

[@xweert711]

It honestly wouldn't be that difficult; it'd just be incredibly time consuming depending on what type of game it is.

[@theblah12]

There's the simple but time consuming way of just painting moss onto the tops of individual rock meshes, but that obviously limits how you can use those assets to build up a scene, or the more procedural route where you create a height map for the moss (could be painted as well) then create a shader that blends between the rock and moss textures based on height and vertex painting - UE4 has a heightlerp node that allows for just that. The good thing about that latter is that you can easily reuse the different rocks without repetition by scaling and rotating them around, and then simply paint the locations of the moss, or replace the moss texture with something else (like snow). For the water that's something that can be done in a shader as well, mostly by simply multiplying and dividing a bunch of scrolling mask textures similar to what Nintendo did with Wind Waker. You could also hand animate parts like the foam, and again do a bit of shader trickery to make it look less like it's just a flat card.

[@xweert711]

@@theblah12 Although vertex painting is good for blending different composite materials together, it goes by vertices, so it detracts from the hand-painted precise look unless you have a decently high-poly rock. If it was being done in UE4, projected decals would probably be the best bet without manually hand-painting every rock with vertex paints, but that's just my thoughts :p

[@theblah12]

xweert711 That’s where the height blend element comes in, which hides most of the vertex-y appearance of the blend.

[@LutherTaylor]

Beautifully done

[@nguyenletruongphuc7778]

Great!

[@justinz9225]

Gorgeous. I definitely don't have the technical knowledge of C4D to make this happen. But I did understand your general process. Very cool.

[@rushikesh7005]

0:25 the shot was so satisfying....love it ❤️

[@jasai2021]

I lov your paint texture o.o

[@WorldAquariumSingapore]

Nice nice anndddd nice

[@キラキラくりくり頭]

Absolute fantastic

[@poloo92]

The more you do the more incredible it gets ! 👍 The combination of 2D and 3D is on point , really great process, wander if it could work for archiviz, some stuff is hard to convey in only 3D

[@TsubasaAnimations]

Well timed tutorial! I've been working on something like this and was having trouble figuring out how to add a painted background like you did with the plane, thought it would look weird with the camera moving. Also, interesting process with the water! Great work as always :D

[@franklinjumelles1140]

I like your work. Regards from Dominican Republic.

[@scottbotmilton]

completely blown away

[@arpankumarnayak7257]

Mesmerising!

[@pawaalfilms]

amazing boss

[@JoshuaRandyBuono]

I love you so much you give me so many ideas of what I could do thank youuu so much, here’s a bagel and a coffee ☕️🥯

[@benjaminread5287]

Super awesome! I love how you mix the 3d and 2d! Excellent!!!

[@ziching859]

thank you so much for sharing !

[@gstapleton]

Simple but brilliant techniques! Great job!

[@dustincdouglas2290]

I love U man U inspire me so much thank you

[@VisualArt3D]

You are a true inspiration! Thank you for this!

[@evesjeanz]

AMAZING

[@irlWIKKO]

Wow, this is very cool.

[@pedro_a_martins]

Incredible!

[@star_gaz3r33]

Appreciate the effort and time you put into this! Simple but atmospheric

[@Mark-uk8wz]

A free roam game should be made with these graphics

[@joshuabingwa1040]

Great videos! They are really inspiring

[@TommyLikeTom]

This is a genius approach. I love you a lot. I just uploaded 3 trailers made with blender. By the way, a small change in height in a river is called a "rapid". There is a small flicker in the shadow on the big rock on the left

[@mrirurfkjsdo]

Sweet job and workflow !!

[@YouAlreadyKnowBabi]

This is fantastic man!

[@JeffNelson3000]

Very appealing mix of 2D/3D. Keep it up man!

[@ss-oq9pc]

Very cool.

[@hitrozhop]

Super Cool!

[@SweetyMitSchnabel]

amazing work!

[@luca__3044]

I love that water effect soo much oO.. looks absolutely gorgeous!😍 realy have to try that out.. tho it looks a bit complicated

[@terencelo4579]

god dam brilliant !

[@tonestarrstudio]

i love your workflow, i just started doing cartoon stuff recently, i am doing a cartoon web series i was trying to explain to my set design guy this very idea using 3d to 2d when i saw your videos i was so excited i will be following you to learn this process to show my set design guy what this does to a scene, thank you so much

[@backupdf3170]

One of the best channel and I really like you're works and ideas..but can you just put a little more details on how to make it looks 3d and 2d at the same time that's would be extremely helpful..because i'm new in cinema 4d and thanks for this beautiful view

[@advanches]

Thanks for sharing the process. The end result looks really beautiful!

[@leonardoribas6974]

Things like these are why I am studying animation, you are amazing, bloody beautiful mate.

[@jbi1839]

perfectionist!

[@Boris_Wagner]

Great work! Amazing!

[@lucasbird6367]

Awesome!

[@nevinfilmextracts409]

Extremely talented

[@ALNUHA]

An interesting technique for a beautiful result!

[@frankiesuchan]

This is amazing, great job!

[@MarcoBezoetdeBie]

wow, amazing work...i like the combination of 3D and 2D

[@jamesolumeka6402]

Very interesting scene. Please try to do a step by step tutorial on something like this.

[@Zahlen0]

Thank you for posting this! I can't wait to see you final product!

[@vyouttar]

More of these, please

[@ViktorsJournal]

Freaking great work homie! :-) I like feeling your animation gives, it's inspiring to see how nicely you can blend 3d and 2d to make a nice looking animation even without a whole studio behind you. Hope to see more of your work.

[@sharonjose77]

How do you paint and project on a moving shot .is it a single texture?

[@lumik]

Yes he projected the image that he drew onto the rocks. This works well if the perspective of your shot doesn't change too much. At 3:00 you can see that the textures are stretched on the sides of the rocks, but as said if the camera doesn't move too much from the original position this won't be visible in the end.

[@AdictiveGaming]

@@lumik but he said in the water texture projection part that it moves with the camera movement or maybe I understood it false.. So is it in fact the simple cam project of texture and then animating a cam so far you can till the texture is gone. To make it then possible fly threw the whole 3d scene you then should texture every element individually right?

[@ianlau6879]

Love your videos, they're teaching me tons

[@RomboutVersluijs]

Cool process man, very tedious but still much faster than manual drawing and painting :)

[@RomboutVersluijs]

PS how did you do those water rippels around areas, can sort of mask paint that in AE?

[@RomboutVersluijs]

hahah just when i asked, you explained you used an alpha map hahaha i never wait to the end for questions ;)

[@oneweekproject9190]

awesome!

[@chrisp2588]

Just amazing. Well done, as usual!