Hans Christian Andersen House
To mark the opening of Hans Christian Andersen House, a museum in the Danish city of Odense, we were tasked with creating a series of animated installations to celebrate the life and work of the author through a dark, experimental re-imagining of his most famous fairy tales.
The ambition was to create an ‘Andersenian Universe’, blurring reality with fantasy to conjure up a striking experience for museum goers. Alongside director Noah Harris, we led a team of 20 VFX and 3D artists to create short films for 10 key museum exhibits, shooting a range of live action plates and puppetry – along with stop motion characters – subsequently compositing them into 3D scenes.
We sculpted 3D creatures and characters in zBrush, before rigging and animating in Maya, and rendering everything in Arnold. Our environment builds were a mix of modelling based on archive photography and LIDAR scans from in and around the author’s home. The films themselves were designed specifically for the projection architecture of the museum – so our challenge was to present each unique fairy tale in the most impactful way possible. Take a look at the good stuff...
