{"id":531761,"date":"2026-06-12T15:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/531761\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:00:24","slug":"closer-look-at-painterly-indie-animated-film-protagonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/531761\/","title":{"rendered":"Closer Look At Painterly Indie Animated Film Protagonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the latest video at the top of the article is a test that brings together animation, look development, and shading exploration for Asja. The animation was done by Toni Buenavida. Asja was sculpted by Amy Ash, with hair grooming by Bassem Shenouda. Texturing was done by Veronika Vajdova, while rigging for Asja was completed by Lucas Salamon Lama. Creative supervision was handled by Alex Alvarez. The team also used the <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/improved-modeling-symmetry-is-coming-to-blender-s-hair-tool\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hair Tool<\/a> Blender add-on by Bartosz Styperek.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re interested in learning more about the process, including visual development, animation tests, and the challenges of building an independent production from the ground up, join the Solace newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solacetale.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blender NPR artists, don&#8217;t miss the release of Casey Sheep and MeiU&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/blender-tool-for-creating-stylized-3d-clouds-with-true-volume\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cloud Paint<\/a> for creating stylized, fully volumetric clouds:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the latest video at the top of the article is a test that brings together animation, look&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[746,9800,18,117,19,17,327,5],"class_list":["post-531761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-blender","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116737738142556758","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}