Daydream Believer

Daydream Believer is a surreal and lighthearted animation project I created in 2024 as part of my exploration into 3D character design, photogrammetry, and motion capture. While it’s not a fully polished piece, it reflects a range of animation techniques and storytelling experiments.

The main character, a quirky sausage-shaped woman sculpted out of clay, was brought to life using photogrammetry, scanned with Polycam, and refined digitally in Maya. The environment was also based on a 3D scan of my local area, adding an eerie, dreamlike realism to the scene.

In the animation, the clay character dreams of becoming a glamorous singer. As her performance begins, she’s unexpectedly joined by a mysterious dancing bear, who seems to appear from another layer of her dream. The bear was also animated using Rococo motion capture and composited into the scene using split-screen and layered editing.

Although the story is abstract, it gave me the chance to experiment with character pipelines, motion capture, and dreamlike visual design in a playful and experimental way.