Hamster Cheek

Created by: Jannik Gensler, Vincent Maurer (2020)

My Roles: Animation, Modeling, Layout/ Camera, Lighting, Shading

Lonely and abandoned, the hamster lives encircled in mountains of food. His greed is undeniable. When the begging raccoon’s UFO lands on his planet, it’s time to defend his hoarded supplies. Just don’t give in and give away something.

This film was produced over a three-month period as part of the Filmgestaltung 1 course. Initially, we intended to create a claymation short film, but due to the pandemic, this was not feasible. Instead, we aimed to achieve the same aesthetic using 3D animation. Approximately half of the assets were handmade or hand-drawn and later scanned to give the film an authentic clay animation look and feel. I was responsible for all 3D aspects including shading, lighting, and rendering the project in real-time using the then-new Eevee rendering engine in Blender.