Daydream Opening Shot
This is the opening shot to Daydream. The only 3D used in this scene is the spaceship. Everything else was done entirely 2D. Even the engines and lights on the ship, the flight flares on the planets and sun, the lens particles, were all digitally painted. No particle effects were used, everything you see was done using a combination of Photoshop, After Effects, and ToonBoom. Aaron Mann storyboarded and directed the short as well as designed the ship. Devin Benkin built the ship in maya while Dustin Stubbs UV Mapped it. I painted the backgrounds, ship, and effects in Photoshop and ToonBoom. Then animated the ship in maya and composited everything together and animated the effects using After Effects.