Future Camera

Future Camera by Tianze Li.

Who?
Future Camera was created by students from from China Dalian Nationalities University. The short film was directed by myself, Tianze Li.

What?

A veteran inventor successfully invents a FutureCamera and takes photo with his desk of a future award. But he does not see the future award in the photo. Our inventor modifies the camera again and again, In the end giving up the experiment.However the photo changes magically when he leaves his work room so the future is not changed forever which the photo shows. If you want change you real future you need change yourself.

Our inspiration comes from a movie about photos and combines our moods and impressions felt whilst watching it. We also referenced lots of French animation, due to my love of the French style.

How?

We used Maya,Zbrush,Photoshop,AfterEffect,Premiere and mentalray for working. The main job of Maya is to model building,animation output,light material quality setting and some special effect production. Zbursh is used as high-poly sculpture. PhotoShop is a tool that design for some 2D works,for example,set the map. We make the composition in AE and to do some 2D special effects. We used Premiere to output the music.

What Next?
We just graduated from University and do not have job. If there is a chance we must do the next animation. Also we hope continue this style which has a bit of a nostalgic feeling.