The story is about a young and innocent flower that is taken under the leave of an older and wiser flower, but are her motives pure? The movie is starring the voices of Whoopie Goldberg and Christie Scott Cashman (the 2 main characters, the flowers) who grow on the edge of a clearing next to one another, it is an inspiring piece created Core.
One of the characrts is old and jaded by a mysterious history, the other one still young, vivid and curious. Destiny has brought these two together and it seems as if they would exist without possibility for change, until one day a visitor to the clearing brings something unexpected to their lives.
This short film started as a diploma project by Heiko van der Scherm and Holger Schoenberger at the Institute of Animation (part of the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg).
Making of the Descendants can be find here.
3D Core Team: Heiko van der Scherm (Writer, Director, Design, Modeling), Bernhard Haux (Character TD Flower main actors), Goro Fujita (supervising Animator), Felix Graf (animator), Holger Schönberger (Pipeline, Shading, Lighting, Compositing).
To make an idea about how mutch work it was necessary to create this 3D animated movie, the time frame says that the production time (first script to final short) was 3 years. Work time: full time, 6 days a week, 0.75 - 1,5 Years per core person.
