Thomas Howie

Mama's Pizza

Bachelor of Design 3D animation Character Animation Compositing Experimental Narrative Craft
AD25 Award
AVG
For outstanding teamwork in visual effects

Mama's Pizza

Mama's Pizza is a multi-media animated VFX project combining practical miniatures with digital animation. It follows a bushy bearded man in the kitchen of a rustic cozy cottage. Chaos ensues while he attempts to cook his late mother’s special pizza recipe, and nothing goes according to plan.

The project combines Physical props and sets with digital 3D animation to together create a final result better than either can achieve alone. It explores physicality in character animation to create comedy and the feelings of nostalgia generated by practical environment design.

My primary focus was on the integration and combination of these digital and practical techniques, and on the exterior environment which was made digitally in such a way as to mimic practical miniatures.

Project by Joanna Lau, Thomas Howie, and Joelle Burt