Once in a Lullaby
Inter IIT 3D Animation - Winner 2025

Whats the Challenge
The IIT Teams have to create an Animation matching the 'Base Animation' given. We have fixed camera size and angle ( Sadly it's 9:16 </3 ) and Character position in screen-space. The theme was 'Rise Up'
It's like the pwnisher challenges, we can go crazy with everything else.
Our Animation
We wanted to experiment and go insane with the concept art, and after a lot of setting eliminations, we ended up with circus and clowns. This gave us the insane potential to create the beautiful visuals AND give the story of our protagonist the circus child.
Completed in
20 Days
My Role
Rigging & Animation, a bit of Direction <3
<- BTS Video by Dhaan Cherian @dhaancherianart
The Process
Pre - Production

The Animations
My Part in the Animation
I was responsible for the Main Character Modelling, Rigging Her and a few other elements, The entire character animation, and a few other animations here and there. My Team did the Pre-Production entirely, although I did a little bit of help in the Animatics. My Favorite Team project so far :)))



The Final Animation
Entirely made in blender, Using the Brushstroke tool addon for texturing, No assets and absolutely NO AI was used. All Animations are handmade. Hope you like it :)
Thanks to blender for allowing students like us to create beautiful art and animations entirely for free, happy to be a blender studio member <3
The Amazing Team

Dean
Story, Direction, Concept art & Texture Painting
Dhaan
Modelling, Animation, Texturing, Rigging, VFX, Shading & Lighting
Dhruva
Modelling, Animation, Texturing, Rigging, VFX, Shading & Lighting
Arin
Story, Direction, Concept art, Animatics, Team Management & Texture Painting
Mathan
Animatics, Character Modelling, Rigging & Animations
Shivam
Sound Design


