During the events of June 6th, 1944, and the days that followed, 73,000 allied soldiers lost their lives. To this day, more than 2,300 soldiers still remain nameless.
As a tribute to the 80th anniversary of D-Day, I have tried to depict this important historical event in an original way.
I have chosen to design and produce a 3D animated short to portray this. In the animation we focus on the stories and experiences of the unidentified or ‘nameless’ soldiers. I developed this idea after seeing an unidentified American grave. On each grave of an unnamed soldier, you can read the epitaph: “Here rests in honored glory, a comrade in arms know but to God.” This text plays an important role in my animation. Together with some surrealistic elements such as a sea of dog tags and a gigantic parachute covering Sainte-Mère-Eglise, accompanied by General Eisenhower’s speech, I hope to depict D-Day in an original way.
Software used:
Houdini
Karma XPU
After Effects
Xsens Motioncapture
Breakdown
