Music video for Maria Reis’ song “Olívia”, from her album Flor da Urtiga
Wanting to mix illustration with 3D character animation, we created this video inspired by Maria’s lyrics and the meaning behind the song.The song deals with the struggle between what is expected from us by society and family versus what we really feel.
Based on that we created a narrative of a character falling into a new place and being chased by a menace follower.
All the elements were hand-drawn first, and then we turned the characters in 3D, keeping
the backgrounds as 2D illustrations, to create a contrast of styles. This project gave us the opportunity to work for the first time with a Portuguese musician (from where we are from) and opened the door for us to explore mixed techniques and new ways to tell stories.
