Ghost Stride - Still Frames from the animated short by Dardo Studios

After a lot of hard work, we are so proud to finally share Ghost Stride, an original animated short made by the team at Dardo Studios. What started as a quick animation test grew into a full short film, built in Unreal Engine from rigging to final render. Every character was rigged with Control Rig and animated directly in Sequencer, with the final cameras, lighting and shaders in front of us the whole time. Cameras were blocked out alongside the animation inside the final environments so every discipline could work in the same scene and see changes almost instantly. . On top of that real-time foundation, we pushed the painterly look as far as we could. We projected more than 60 hand-painted paintovers back onto the 3D so the brushstrokes feel alive in motion and finished it off with hand-animated 2D FX, like Shadow's hair and environmental VFX. Ghost Stride was made in the gaps between client projects and it pushed us beyond our usual boundaries. It is a story about facing your fears and moving forward anyway, which turned out to be a pretty honest reflection of what making it felt like. . Huge thanks to the incredible team who made this possible. Watch it now on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=II1cuT6eZjc CREATIVE DIRECTION Daniel Orive . PRODUCTION Camilla Loyolla Julia Lemos . ART DIRECTION Daniel Orive Ed Laag . ART MANAGEMENT Kenny Carvalho . CONCEPT & STORYBOARDING Ayran Oberto Daniel Orive Ed Laag Marcos Eduardo . CHARACTER ART Elina Karimova Paulina Perez . ENVIRONMENT ART Claire Vaury Sacha Veyrier Thomas De Lacroix . ANIMATION Jesse Baumgartner . TECH ART Andrew Miller Dean Boadana-Krone Thomas De Lacroix . 2D FX Alessandro de Oliveira Daria Verzilina Marcos Vinicio . LIGHTING Chad Greene . COMPOSITING & VFX Dean Boadana-Krone . EDITING Dean Boadana-Krone . SOUND & MUSIC Clovis Vilela Fernando Pepe Mateus Polati . VOICE OVER Ghost - Damon Webb Shadow - Rue Vox . THANKS TO: Adilson Porto Cintia Ferreira Nicolas Amarilla Omar ParadaView this on ArtStationDardo Studios on ArtStation