These small scale projects began with the idea of modelling a fairytale studio tower with a woodland setting that we could use to make an animated title sequence and little snippets of B roll for our YouTube videos.

Creating ‘The Vale of Araluen’ turned out to be a much bigger project than we initially anticipated, but one that proved to be both a lot of fun and incredibly useful for getting started with world building. We learned so many new skills and techniques while doing this project that we decided to keep going with it and do a ‘theme and variations’ series with the main theme being ‘the seasons’. The plan is for every vlog to have a slightly different version of the title sequence and animated B roll micro projects inspired by the season the episode will be published in. We hope this will be a fun way to keep learning and evolving as 3D artists while we work through all the different phases of our film projects. We invite you to follow our progress as we learn, grow and create.

As with our film projects you can explore our inspirations and discover the hidden details within our project pages along with a catalogue of all the tutorials and reference material that we’ve used to help us create these short animated sequences. We hope these prove to be as useful and inspiring for you as they are for us.