"The Staring Contest" Short Film by Nicolas Carranza

For my Senior Film, I worked on a hybrid of Stop Motion characters in a fully 3D environment. I used 3D printed puppets that I modeled in Maya, and animated in DragonFrame in front of a green screen. Using NukeX, Premiere Pro and After Effects, I composited the physical characters into the rendered backgrounds. The backgrounds were then textured with Substance Painter and rendered with Pixar’s Renderman. All together, edited in Premiere Pro, after adding sound and the finishing touches, I cobbled together my senior film, which in short, is about two superhuman students having a staring contest over the last blueberry muffin in the cafeteria. I hope you enjoy!