Open the Doors

Mark Bailey • Feb 12, 2024

This is my latest bit of animation - Open the Doors. In the quest to increase my 3D knowledge base I create a lot of imagery and animations that rarely see the light of day so sometimes I dust it off and and pull it all together into some sort of story. Hope you enjoy it!

Over time, I have developed a lot of imagery and animation sequences that essentially represent a journey of learning, relearning and, well, more learning.


Most of this doesn't see the light of day. Sometimes this is because it's rubbish, and other times it's just because it doesn't really fit with anything or it's not commercial or I simply don't know what to do with it.

This project was created using C4D, with the initial clips being rendered in Corona before transitioning to Red Shift at the begining of 2023. The figures and clothing were crafted in Daz 3D and animated using a combination of pre-made blocks and personalized adjustments to achieve a more natural walking sequence – including subtle eye movements, blinking, and hand gestures.


These elements were then imported into C4D, where the scene was composed and art directed with lighting, cameras and materials to achieve the final rendered clips. From here everything was pulled together in After Effects.


Initially we came up with a rough outline strategy so we could get a feel for what assets were required. From this the client chose which assets they actually wanted us to proceed with.
I utilised the GSG Transformer plugin to break the model up and then in After Effects different lighting effects were laid in over the top to shine through the body and particles.
I created a sequence of rough halftones and damaged textures and ran those with the sound track wave form and used this to overlay for some glitch and retro interference where I thought we need to break things up.

I think it's fair to say that I haven't made inroads into modelling - yet.


Commercial work that I take on tends to be with clients who have a product already and we need to render it out in some sort of setting so the modelling of objects isn't high on my list. There are so many amazing asset out there too. However, The doors and the locking devise I did create - I know, amazing right? (And just in case, yes I'm being sacastic). I was going to animate the lock mechanism but hey, it didn't happen.

I used X-Particles by Insydium as the foundation to create the regrowth section of the animation.


It was quite challenging to ensure that the particles emitted from the growing edge of the skin as it reformed around the body shape.


The use of a Boole in C4D, which essentially involves one object moving through another and concealing the union between the two, can create complications in an animation. As a result, I had to revisit and adjust the geometric positions on individual frames to ensure that they rendered correctly.



The regrowth sequence was cut up with an analogue style screen showing HUD graphics and a more graphic representation of the rebuild process (which was also created in X-Particles). This helped with the pace and interest. This was all cut together and timed to the 'Cyber Games' sound track.



We utilised MeshTools to start building the suit around the model bringing in multiple meshes at slightly different times to get that busy Tron build feel.
For the end scene we grabbed some hard surfaces from KitBash3D to help build the right look for the background. Nothing too over the top as it was mostly going to be lost in the camera's short depth of field.
  • Grungy stylised psychedelic image of woman with her hands on a huge door. The image is blue, pink and orange and has a sound wave tracking through it with a halftone texture overlay. Image created by BAILEYCS.

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