The Escape
A claymation teaser
'The escape' is a hypothetical short film based on the life of a mushroom. It was kept next to an open fire oven in a pizzeria, exposing it to the scorching heat from the flames inside. This awakened it, and it's survival instincts kicked in, somehow giving it the ability to jump away to escape.
The models were made in Blender 3.0. For the claymation style, displacement modifiers (musgrave) were used wherein a moving empty with linear extrapolation helped with the moving textures. For the environment, a simple fog was set up along with sinister orange back lighting. Three light sources were used, The sun (for general atmospheric ambience), a spotlight (key), and backlight (flames). The animation and images were rendered in EEVEE engine.
