Welcome to the Snaxz Team Website

: We are a team of four Carnegie Mellon University students creating a short 3D movie entitled Snaxz for 60-414/15-465 Advanced ETB: Animation Art and Technology.

Snaxz is a story about a humanoid, N'10'na, being who is returning home from work. N'10'na can change his physical appearance by moving a dial on his chest up and down - dialed up and N'10'na becomes a more professional, stronger, more formal body-type ready for work. Dialed down N'10'na becomes a relaxed, plushy being with a slight beer belly.

N'10'na is carrying with him many boxes of his favorite meal, Snaxz. He loads them into his refridgerator and grabs one to munch on while watching TV. But N'10'na finds opening his Snaxz more than a challenge...
March 5, 2007 ✴: Complete storyboard by Luther, Priscilla and Yin.
March 26, 2007 ✴: Here is our first Animatic!

It is done in Maya with our preliminary models. These models are not rigged or textured; it is just giving a sense of what the camera angles would be, and it also acts as a reference to the production of the final animation.
April 4, 2007 ✴: Models are updated together with a lighting sample of the room for N'10'na. And, N'10'na can now dial up and dial down!

Check out our gallery!
April 16, 2007 ✴: Model of N'10'na is finalized in skinning and added with facial expressions. Team members have also started to work on different scenes of the animation:
April 29, 2007 ✴: We have new renderings! This is probably the final version of our lighting and environment. And the Snaxz box is finally textured!
May 14, 2007 ✴: With our innovative sound recording, Snaxz has come alive! Thanks for the work of everyone, this is a great success and hope you would enjoy our final production. Meanwhile, please browse our gallery for the featured scenes!