This underwater scene was one of the funniest scenes to work on from this explainer animation project. Dressing our hero character up in different situations is always a blast, but this was one of my favorites.

The challenge in this project was creating a convincing underwater scene fitting for the animation style. While keeping in mind the budget. (Time and Cost)

So that asks the artist to be creative and smart about it. I think we did that when using compositing tricks to quote-unquote fake expensive effects, like caustics and volumetric lighting.

Blender can handle those extremely well, but sometimes during a project, you need to consider other things too.

All the little additions stacked on top of one other make this a lively underwater scene.

watch the full animation here: