Summary
Come up with an idea for an advertisement, pitch it, create it. Those were the guidelines for this assignment. We had about 5 weeks to complete it. I decided to create a commercial for a new soda brand called Orbital Fizz. This project utilized Blender, Adobe Illustrator, and Premiere Pro.
Process
I started with storyboards. I was first thinking of how I could create a 30 second animation in Blender, what shots would be compelling, etc. The brand ideation came afterwards, although I already had an idea for the name and a rough idea for the logo at this point.
From here, I refined the logo and branding in Illustrator.
This was the beginning of the creation of the assets that I would need for the full advertisement. The next thing I did was model a can and glass, I gave it a backdrop, gave everything an initial texture for visualization purposes, and my first iteration of a lighting set-up.
Part of the reason I chose a soda commercial was because I wanted to experiment with fluid simulations in Blender. After I got a rough cut of the rest of the advertisement, I acquired the flip fluids add-on for Blender, my next focus was simulating the fluid in a way that looked presentable.
After that, I refined the rest of the shots, exported it, and then stitched it all together with some audio in Premiere Pro.
Final Product
