OUTGROW was created in 2020 quarantine, from May to September. Our team was small at first, but quickly grew in size. The story was driven by my own personal experience of moving back into my parents' house, and reminiscing on my childhood. When you're a kid, you don't really realize you'll become an adult someday. When you do, there's always the fear that you'll become someone you don't like. This film highlights one kid's short journey to realizing that he's not alone, and that lots of people will help him become a good person.

To emulate a stop-motion feel, we combined realistic textures with stylized character models. All set modeling was done in Maya, and characters were sculpted in ZBrush. The film was rendered on twos in Arnold, effectively cutting our render time in half, to further push the stop-motion style. Finishing touches and compositing were done in After Effects.

CREDITS:

Ollie Yao - Director, Story, Previs, Texturing, Concept 

Mav Vitale - Story, Concept, Character Modeling, Rigging, Texturing 

Ben Meyer - Rigging, Animation 

Kaitlin Yu - Previs, Animation 

Heather Yun - Animation 

Alex Yun - Modeling, Lighting/Rendering, Compositing 

Deniz Mani - Modeling, Lighting/Rendering, Compositing 

Westine Leung - Concept/Color Keys, Lighting/Rendering 

Jacob Fanto - Music 

Length: 3:32 minutes

Completion Date: September 26th, 2020

SOFTWARE USED:

Maya, Substance Painter, Arnold, After Effects, Nuke