is a heart-warming 3D animation about a lawnmower robot and a hoover robot who find together through the strangest way. This was a university project that I created together with my master class colleagues as our final project.
My main tasks were the creation of concept art, storyboard, animatic, texturing, 2D visual effects and 2D assets and animation.
story
A small automatic lawnmower is mowing the lawn in the huge garden of a rich family. Their life is boring and every day they go through the same routine - mowing the lawn until late in the evening, when they have to return to their docking station to recharge their battery. However, one day, a delivery truck arrives at the house and delivers a package which includes an automatic hoover! The lawnmower falls in love immediately and tries to impress the hoover with different tricks and ideas.
But the ideas never turn out like in their imagination and the hoover is not impressed at all. The lawnmowers third trick goes horribly wrong and exposes their battery and at exactly that moment, a thunderstorm comes out of nowhere and it starts to rain - which is life threatening to the little lawnmower. Luckily, the hoover hurries to save the passed out lawnmower and they end up in a classic happy end.
concept phase
The idea about a lawnmower and a hoover finding love was sparked at the many lunch breaks my university teammates and I spent together at the university's campus garden, where a little lawnmower was mowing the huge lawn area tirelessly but also lonely. We joked about buying a friend for it and so, the idea for our last semester project was born. The story was developed together as a team.
animatic
test with a test model modelled, textured, rigged and animated by me to test the 2D animated face as a texture sequence on the face
production
As soon as the 2D animatic was finalized, we started building the environment and modelling the characters. The assets for the 2D "dream sequences" and the 2D faces for the animated texture on the robots faces were also started quite early in the process.
some example expression of the face textures for the lawnmower on top and for the hoover on the bottom. I tried to give the faces a hand-drawn look to give them a comic mood and go hand in hand with the 2D drawn comic expressions in the 3D scenes and the imaginary 2D scenes.
credits
concept & story
Sarah Golden
Hanna Kuppelwieser
Katharina Poscher
Thomas Rath
Livia Ringl
art & animation
Guillaume Freysmuth
Sarah Golden
Hanna Kuppelwieser
Katharina Poscher
Thomas Rath
Livia Ringl
sound design
Leonie Schönfelder