I'm a massive fan of the Animal Crossing games, and I thought it would be fun to turn my adorable tuxedo cat George into an Animal Crossing character! I used a reference to create the character in Blender and then created the face and ears in Illustrator. I added them onto my model using UV Maps and painted the white and black onto the model in Substance Painter. I also modeled the winter Animal Crossing style trees in Blender.

I went back into Illustrator to create a seamless snow pattern for the ground. Additionally, I animated the happy emote in After Effects, exported out the sequence, and imported the footage as a video on a plane in Blender. Lastly, all I needed to do was add some snow and the final logo in After Effects and call it a day! Check out my process in the videos below!

Animal Crossing Winter Edit

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