In this animated short film, a world with different gravity is inhabited by friendly green one-eyed monsters called Flipquips. The gravity is different in the sense that the Flipquips can move on all surfaces, regardless of whether those are walls, floors or ceilings. The Flipquips reproduce through decapitation: everytime one is decapitated, their body grows a new head and their head a new body. Flipquips come in all shapes and sizes. The main character is a Flipquip called Nameless III. Nameless III is a savage that decapitates other Flipquips creating chaos and overpopulation – until a dragon enters the scene and becomes Nameless III’s new target. All 3D models and rigs used for this film are original.
Film awards and festival selections:
Finalist: New York Animation Film Awards (NYAFA)(New York, 2024)
Official Selection: Palm Springs Animation Festival (Palm Springs, 2024)
POSTER & TEASER
Trailer/Teaser
Poster
Director, Animator, Writer, VFX Artist: Lorenz Foth // Producer: Liam Young // Narrator: Clifton Castelloe. This project was produced as a part of the Master’s program MS Fiction & Entertainment at SCI-Arc and was supervised by Liam Young, Alexey Marfin, Shuruq Tramontini & Andre Zakhya. This work was supported by a fellowship of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
ANIMATION PREVIEW
Animation preview with poem narration
Opening scene animation preview
Ending scene animation preview
Character animation cycles
2D effects on 3D animation test preview
FINAL 3D MODELS & RIGS (MATERIALS & LIGHTING TO BE OPTIMIZED)
Flipquip Design concept
Flipquip 3D Models (facial expressions & poses – rig)
Puppet Dragon Design Concept
Puppet Dragon 3D Model (facial expressions & poses – rig)
Flipquip Head Collision test
Animation test assets
World
Stadium/Stage: Nameless III’s Birth place
Dragon Cave
More objects
ANIMATIC
CONCEPT ART
Nameless on the lookout for potential victims
EARLY ROUGH CONCEPT DESIGNS
Character in World
Hands and feet
World Concept Design – Environment brightness and colors change according to Nameless’ mood. Once Nameless becomes evil the colors switch from light and uniform to more complex, saturated and darker.
Vehicle Concept Design
EARLY INSPIRATIONS
Dr. Suess
MC Escher
EARLY CONCEPT
World concept. Gravity? What is that?
In a world where gravity works differently.
Characters can move on all surfaces.
They reproduce via decapitation, instantly splitting in 2 and growing to weird scales and proportions.
They seem quite human at times.
But they do some pretty weird stuff.
They are so random.
A mass decapitator – Nameless III – goes through the world forcing others into reproduction to work for him.
Ultimately, he is responsible for a really bad overpopulation problem.
The reason why he is such an a**hole is because his family disappeared when he was young – while they were playing basketball.
He goes on to discover that they were taken by the evil dragon.
He fights the dragon only to discover that the dragon is a puppet controlled by a huge character. The dragon keeps abducting characters.
To defeat the dragon he must decapitate himself, growing into an equally huge character.
He and the others defeat the dragon. But after doing so, he realizes that someone needs to take care of the overpopulation problem.
So he becomes the dragon and abducts characters randomly. Turns out it is a neverending cycle.
STORYBOARD (OLD)
LORENZ FOTH 