Gothenburg, Sweden-based Mindbender has released a short teaser for its next project, The Food Thief, a 90-second short that it will launch online this year.
The film, directed by Olov Burman, was made with the goal “to create a more flexible 3d rig than anything we had done before.” To achieve that, Mindbender developed a rig with sliding body parts that could be turned on or off between the different poses. Here’s a look at the rig, created in collaboration with Kippcase studio:
Mindbender has spent years developing an authentic cartoon language for computer animation, and offering a vision for cg that is completely at odds with mainstream production.