The Instances and Cloner features in Cinema 4D’s MoGraph toolset allowed him to manage and populate his animations with objects to better choreograph crowd scenes of warrior characters fighting over money. Animated 3D characters were created using Mixamo. “I find the short film format allows for experimental freedom and using the 3D software gave me complete flexibility to artistically explore the debt crisis and offer the audience various viewpoints so they can come to their own conclusions.”ĭuring the creative process Beeple first blocked shots and set up scenes using no formal storyboards. “Cinema 4D is a tool that allows you to touch various aspects of the creative process without needing to know a lot about the tools and production values to get a great result,” Beeple adds. Lighting and rendering were completed in OTOY Octane. Final color passes were done in Adobe After Effects while editing was done in Adobe Premiere. Working entirely independently on the nearly three-minute short feature, Beeple relied almost exclusively on Cinema 4D, without the need for compositing. Using visual symbolism created in Maxon Cinema 4D, the film is set amidst a fiery, bleak dystopian landscape where naked, oversized and distorted armed infants, children and adults are at war with one another – greed gone wild, infrastructure in flames, false idols and money at the heart of it. It is a dramatized vision of the future that explores income inequality and the U.S. Beeple began work on “Manifest Destiny” four years ago.

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