Guiding Light Motion Picture Reveal
"Guiding Light" is a computer-animated short motion picture that tells the story of a bulb bot wanting to escape the mundanity of an automated lifestyle in the miniature prototype world of tomorrow. The stylistic approaches to the visuals and animation, which I aimed to replicate (hand-made miniatures and stop-motion), support the recurring themes of control, automation, and reflection.
Idea, story, design, models, animation, lighting, rendering & video editing by Nikolai Jónasson (A Jono Niko Studio).
Made in Blender 3.3 and Unreal Engine 5 during the "Digital Playgrounds for the Online Public" course at the University of Edinburgh. Finalized in just 2 weeks.
Music by
AlexiAction (Night City Knight)
https://pixabay.com/music/synthwave-night-city-knight-127028/
Jazz at Mladost Club (C-mol blues)
https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Jazz_at_Mladost_Club/Jazz_Night/C-mol_blues/
Sounds by
Bolkmar (Neon Tube Light Flickering)
https://freesound.org/people/bolkmar/sounds/500693/
Jacobzeier (vhs hum)
https://freesound.org/people/jacobzeier/sounds/166178/
PBR Textures
https://3dtextures.me/2019/09/06/solar-panel-001/
https://cgaxis.com/product/dirty-glass-pbr-texture/
https://www.cgbookcase.com/textures/painted-metal-03/
https://www.cgbookcase.com/textures/scratched-gold-01/
https://freepbr.com/materials/grimy-metal/
https://freepbr.com/materials/dull-brass-pbr/
https://www.textures.com/download/PBR0190/133229
https://www.textures.com/download/PBR0294/134376