|2017| Escape Room Project - Loutanina Productions

|2017| Escape Room Project

|2018| Photopsia Demo Work

In late 2017, I got to work on a group project where we had to design an educative Escape Room that:
– Had to take 1 hour to solve.
– Had interchangeable narratives and an environment that was easily changed to target two different audiences (kids and teens).
– Had to keep a group of at least 30 students occupied at all times.

I did a lot of work for it so I’d figure I’d share everything I made except for the final animation because that’s not 100% made by just me(audio and voice-over aren’t mine, neither is the music I used to get a bpm to animate stuff to) and I don’t think it turned out great but I’m a perfectionist so I’m never completely satisfied with my work, haha.
I made the logo, character design thumbnails, some animations, concepts, a storyboard and a character sheet. I ended up mostly working on the escape room for kids, one we made a missing cat story for. I also made some art assets for a puzzle but I’m not sure it’s appropriate to share them because it’s used in a puzzle with assets from others as well. Overall I think the project was one of the most fun ones we had at uni.

|2013-2017| School Work

The first character designs for a character that would serve to be an avatar for the hacker in the teenage narrative when that narrative was more cartoony.

The second sets of designs for mostly a character that would serve to be an avatar for the hacker in the teenage narrative when that narrative was more cartoony.

More concept iterations!

An exploration of the hacker avatar that was set up for bone animation, cancelled in favour for a more realistic style.

An animation concept for what could have been done with the hacker character if animated frame-by-frame instead of with puppet animation.

Some explorations for a more realistic type of eyes for the hacker, I personally like the glitched out concept at the bottom right the most but it wasn’t used. I’m not good with realistic rendering and photobashing so I switched to the kid narrative after this.

Mittens Concepts, the cat at this point was finally named Mittens.

Other potential styles we could use for the kid narrative, but we kept the style flat.

Concepts for the important human characters in the missing cat narrative. The officer would be called Bromsnor, which would translate into “Grumpy Moustache” in English and Mittens’s owner was Diana.

A character sheet for the cat, Mittens and a height comparison of her and her owner, Diana.

A storyboard for the introduction animation. Read from top left > bottom left to top right >bottom right.
Later on some things changed, like Mittens being in the middle of the group of cats at the start.
I won’t share the whole video as I don’t own all the rights to use the materials.

Mittens running animation in the video, I was going to adjust it further to make the animation look less clunky, animate the collar as well as the whiskers, but due to time constraints I moved on to the next animation.

An animation of Mittens that would play with some extra effects in the foreground at the end to indicate Mittens was stuck in a room. It would play during the final room of the Escape Room, which if the kids would solve would result in Mittens getting freed and returning to her owner.

The WIP of the previous animation, I actually preferred the more sketchy version to the final result and it made me wish we had gone with the sketchy style.

Lastly the team logo I made!