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Creative & thought process

Moonlit Country Road

A character-led 3D animation set on a moonlit country road, from reference sheets to final cut.

Project
Personal project
Role
Character and location development, animation, edit
Made with
GPT-2, Seedance 2.0, CapCut

Characters first

I started by generating character sheets with GPT-2. The duck and raccoon each have multiple angles, poses and expressions, giving me a consistent reference for how they look and perform before moving into animation.

Building the location

Next came the location sheet: a moonlit country road with its own views, lighting and atmosphere studies. It established the world the characters would move through.

From stills to a film

I animated the video with Seedance 2.0, then edited the shots together in CapCut. The character and location sheets were the foundation for the finished sequence.

Creative references

Duck character sheet showing full-body angles, poses and expressions
Duck character sheet: angles, poses and expressions
Raccoon character sheet showing full-body angles, poses and expressions
Raccoon character sheet: angles, poses and expressions
Moonlit country road environment sheet with views and lighting studies
Moonlit country road: location and lighting studies

New work

Let’s make the next frame.