Young Marco Polo: The Time of His Life (movie trailer)

In late 2022 / early 2023 I got to work on a teaser trailer for a children's movie based on the 2013-2018 TV series 'The Travels of the Young Marco Polo' (German: 'Die Abenteuer des jungen Marco Polo').
The goal was to recreate the toon look of the original 2D animated series as closely as possible, while bringing the characters to life in 3D.

My work on the trailer consisted of:
- character modeling, rigging and texturing
- set modeling
- line art setup
- lighting, texturing, shading / general look development
- render setup

Everything else was made by my colleagues at TrickStudio.
The original character designs belong to Mideu Films.

A clip from the trailer
(character model, rig and shaders by me; everything else by TrickStudio)

Another clip from the trailer
(character models, character rigs and shaders by me; everything else by TrickStudio)

Marco 3D model
(by me)

Marco rig controls
(by me)

Marco model breakdown

Line art made with the Grease Pencil Line Art modifier in Blender

Fu Fu 3D model
(by me)

Fu Fu rig controls
(by me)

Fu Fu model breakdown

Time machine
(model, rig and animation by TrickStudio; texturing, shading and comp by me)

Time machine shader breakdown

Diamond shader breakdown