Joanna Lau

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 focus was on the environmental set design, props and lighting that aimed to tell the story of nostalgia and maternal love on its own.

Project by Joanna Lau, Thomas Howie, and Joelle Burt