Masters Project

In around 870 - 930 CE Norsemen navigated and settled on new land named Iceland. To navigate on ships, they use the position of the sun, the colour of the sea, the way the wind was blowing, birds, and the smell of the land.

Stories of Norse mythology have been so widely documented in old Icelandic texts. My project takes translations of these texts and tells the tales behind the creation of the sun, the sea, the wind, and land. All of which helped them sail.

This is the Journey to Iceland.

(3D Short Film)

Software: Maya, ZBrush, Substance Painter, Substance Designer, Photoshop, Unreal Engine 4.

> The Script

My narration script combines the poetic stories from The Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson, Poetic Edda by Henry Adams Bellows (1936), and The Elder or Poetic Edda; Sæmund’s Edda. (Plus some edits from me to make it make more sense in the flow).

> Narration Voice

Jens Christian Holst

> Music

'Through the Fog and the Driftwood' by Lorenzo Munoz

Animatic

(Play with sound)

Style

Motion Comic + Hand Painted Textures

Designing the project to be in a motion comics animation style allows me to delve further into stylised work. Focussing more on the 3D modeling and texturing side in the pipeline.