LIFE-001

LIFE-001’s useless function is that nobody asked the creatures to move. They breathe, shift their weight and glance at you anyway. LIFE-001 is a cast of nine 3D characters. Each one starts as a drawing, becomes a model through an image-to-model pipeline, is given a skeleton, and is animated entirely in code: breath, weight shifts, glances, a dance when the day is done. Nothing is keyframed. They are never perfectly still. The cast of nine. The Blue Ogre. The Cyclops. Ember Bear. Nimbus, the Yeti. Turnaround. Each character is a full model, readable from every side. How a character is made: sketch, untextured model, textured model, skeleton. Rest, wave, dance, sleep. Every movement is procedural, layered over breath. The Red Gnome, the Wizard Gnome and the Dwarf. The Boar Ogre and the Slime.