{"id":619543,"date":"2026-08-04T07:45:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/619543\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T07:45:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T07:45:08","slug":"how-stylized-animated-short-film-noxious-was-made-in-blender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/619543\/","title":{"rendered":"How Stylized Animated Short Film NOXIOUS Was Made in Blender"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Artist and Motion Designer Kay Hilman recently shared a breakdown of the creation of his <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/watch-this-blender-animated-short-film-with-scavengers-reign-vibes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">animated film NOXIOUS<\/a> using Blender.<\/p>\n<p>In the video, Kay Hilman covers the entire production process, specifically discussing combining projection mapping with a custom Grease Pencil workflow and re-scoping and surviving a production crunch. The breakdown also includes a guest segment from the film&#8217;s composer, Mikael Umarov, detailing the soundscape and score.<\/p>\n<p>The film is Kay Hilman&#8217;s 2024 graduation project, which took the artist two years to complete. &#8220;Creating this short was an intense journey of exploring the boundaries between technical artistry, custom workflows, and cinematic storytelling within Blender,&#8221; Hilman shares. &#8220;For a long time, the pressure of releasing it held me back, but looking back at what I accomplished, together with help from other artists, in such a short production window, this film deserves to be seen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To create the fantastic visuals, the artist combined hand-painted textures, Blender&#8217;s Outline modifier, and &#8220;geo-node tricks to get lines to stick on surfaces&#8221;. Earlier, we shared with you <a href=\"https:\/\/80.lv\/articles\/this-breathtaking-blender-made-cinematic-will-soon-see-the-light-of-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">behind-the-scenes<\/a> of the project, in which Hilman shared a glimpse of how he used Grease Pencil and modeled the flowers, leaves, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Digital Artist and Motion Designer Kay Hilman recently shared a breakdown of the creation of his animated film&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619544,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[263],"tags":[110271,9800,18,117,19,17,327,5,261605],"class_list":["post-619543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-3d-art","tag-blender","tag-eire","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stylized-art"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117036130457563479","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619543","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=619543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619543\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}