Paste of Love
“Paste of Love” is a love story between a tube of toothpaste named Frank and an electric toothbrush named Nancy.
A big challenge turned out to be the rigging of each character. Frank was given a spline IK rig and his facial expressions were created using morph targets. Soft IK combined with animations created in XPresso was used to make his “lock of hair” move dynamically. The biggest challenge in the creation of Nancy were the bristles of her brush. After a lot of experimenting we decided to create her bristles using the HAIR module. XPresso Expressions allowed us to gain control over the length, curvature and orientation of each bristle. This setup made it possible to animate Nancy’s “face”.
We used Global Illumination and Ambient Occlusion for rendering and the Advanced Render module produced fantastic image quality. Compositing was done in After Effects and we benefitted greatly from the .aec file format we exported from CINEMA 4D. This made it easy to add dust and other details in After Effects.
"Creating this film was very challenging for us and we learned a lot from it. CINEMA 4D proved to be the perfect tool. The blood and sweat we put into this project was well worth the effort and we hope we continue to receive positive feedback!"
A film by
Simon Fiedler
Thomas Gugel
Christian Lerch
www.lotsof.de
Nancy's voice - Wesselina Georgiewa
Frank's voice- Oliver Arning
Music
Ben Krahl
Sound design
Alex Sippel
Christian Herber
Produced 2009 at the University of Applied Sciences, Mainz, Germany
