Postmates - Boba Tea

Nexus Studio, London reached out with a project they had with a client. The project titled, Postmates had a number of projects to promote. I was hired to help create the “Boba Tea” animated promotion.

My role was to shade the street assets. The project was a very distinct blend of cartoon, colourful shapes set against a semi-realistic street.

I was tasked with shading the buildings and assets in Substance Painter. The animation is quite fast and the camera moves through the scene at speed but we still opted to add details like sparkles to the granite stone roofs, dirt to the train windows and pitted flecks of light on the pavement to add visual interest to the scene. Rather than keep everything clean and basic, the world had to feel alive and lived in. Things like adding graffiti to the train overpass or mud to the cars helped that vision.