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Define behavior
Decide what the system should do, what rules are artistically important, and what parameters should remain controllable.
Documented professional project
Animation / Storytelling / Cinema
Cardboard — animation DNEG
2025Animation · DNEG Animation
A short written and directed by Jean-Philippe Vine, produced by Michaela Manas Malina. DNEG Animation, Locksmith Animation and Ritzy Animation contribute to this father-and-children story imagined around a cardboard box.
Creator Disciplines
VFXCGI3D
A guide to exploring this craft
Learning guide
Ideas for practice
This breakdown is a Framely learning notes based on type of work and discipline. It does not claim to describe the exact steps followed on this project when the artist has not published them.
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Build the system
Create the procedural network, attributes, constraints or simulations that generate movement and shapes.
03
Direct result
Iterate on timing, scale, forces, collisions, caches and composition to leave the simple technical result.
04
Lookdev, rendering & comp
Illuminate, make the passes useful then integrate the effect into the final image with photographic consistency.
To practice this type of work
Tools & skills to explore
These are typical learning tracks for this discipline, not a statement about the exact software used for this project.
HoudiniVEXKarma / ArnoldNukeProcedural thinkingSimulationAttributesCachingCompositing
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In the same universe
Video
Storyboard / Preproduction / Animation
Once Upon a Snowman — storyboardWalt Disney Animation Studios
Getting into practice
Courses to go further
Original source
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