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The Essential Ingredients to Creating Stylized 3D

Award-winning 3D Designer and Animation Director Jonathan Lindgren discusses changing perceptions and growing your opportunities through your work

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Jonathan Lindgren reinvented himself with How to Make Sushi. Follow his journey and process, through more than 3 hours of video content.

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Course Overview

Every freelancer knows how difficult it can be to get their work noticed. It can be even more difficult to change someone's perception of the work you create. In 2018, Jonathan Lindgren was determined to change the way people viewed his work and in turn, the creative opportunities that he was receiving. The result was Jonathan’s short film, How to Make Sushi. His love of 3D, character animation, and the attention to detail in every frame of this piece deserve all the spotlight it has been given.

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Course syllabus.

Planning this delicious menu

In this video, we’ll cover the process of making this short and how the story came to be. We’ll look at the early storyboards along with the mood boards and animation tests that influenced the final film.

The delicate art of making sushi

In this section we’ll talk about the modeling process, covering basic modeling techniques and workflows for the cloth, bonsai tree, soy sauce bottle, and other clever modeling tricks.

Crafting the look of this film

This video will be dedicated to how Jonathan took his models from development to fully realized 3D assets. We’ll dive deep into the texturing, lighting, and rendering used to create this look.

The animation roll and all the tasty keyframes

This video focuses on the technical and creative aspects of animation, why Jonathan chose to animate specific objects the way he did and the workflows used to lock in the movements.

The secret ingredients

The hardest part of any film…how it all came together. Here we’ll cover how everything was comped together and the beautiful mix of 3D with 2D accents seen throughout this film.

Meet your instructor.

Jonathan Lindgren

Designer and Animator