The cakes were a mixture of styles:
Top left – 3D render, using Cinema 4D,
Top right – handmade with paper,
Bottom left – 2D render, using After Effects,
Bottom right – real cupcake, filmed and sped up.
Post-production included: extending the edges of our mini studio out to seem like a much larger space, colour grading to create different coloured backgrounds, keying out various hands and arms and speeding up sections like Iina’s hand drawing the storyboard.
It was a great excuse to be creative, try something new and basically eat a lot of delicious cake! (No Cakes were harmed in the making of this guide to animation film!)
