Foam Cat

Software

• Blender

Overview
A 3D animation that I made with the goal of seamlessly combining hand animation and simulations, while experimenting with both stylised toon-shaded and realistic texturing.

Role and Contributions:
I handled all aspects of the project, from the initial concept to the final render. I created the audio by mixing royalty-free sounds from pixabay and YouTube.

Breakdown
I began by simulating and baking the foam falling into the cup using Blender’s Mantaflow. Once baked, I used shape keys to animate cat. For the realistic version’s materials, I used a combination of procedural texture nodes and PBR images. The stylised materials were created with the custom node-based shader I originally developed for the Pineapple People project.