From the team at Raxo in New York: “Scenes from an Urban Sunset is a study in lighting that uses the city itself as our main character – we worked with handcrafted 2D digital backgrounds and integrated 3D assets throughout the composition.

“The main goal of the project, besides showcasing our skills in terms of animation, is to study how the light and the colors change through the day. The challenge was to find our common thread for our non-traditional storytelling, something that would piece everything together without having a beginning-middle-ending. We had to get the viewer hooked with just the atmosphere/mood we created.

“Once we found our flow and saw we had something substantial to say, we set ourselves the challenge of taking the images to the highest level possible within our deadlines. As for the backgrounds, our challenge there was finding a solid color palette that would evoke the right emotion for every scene, achieving a natural dusk-like progression of colors.

“And as for the animation itself, the challenge was making the 3D vehicles feel part of the world we created, integrating them with our designed animated universe in a seamless way.”
 
 

 
Production: Raxo
ECD: Oscar Rivera
Director: Manuel Freixas, Joaquin Testa
Storyboard/Colorscript: Manuel Freixas
BG Designer: Manuel Freixas, Joaquin Testa
3D Artist/Animator/Compositor: Joaquin Testa, Oscar Rivera
Editor/CC: Manual Freixas, Joaquin Testa
Producer: Ana Beltran, Milagros Salas Carrillo
Graphic Designer: Juan Ignacio Paolantonio, Francia Vallasciani, Luciana Miglioranza

Sound Designer: Yan Carlos Colon, Pawel Orlow