Since being uploaded in early November, Lucas Martell’s animation short Pigeon: Impossible has gone viral. But what most people don’t know is that he has been vlogging his progress for over a year on his YouTube channel, and has quite a large following.
The winning formula for this shortfilm is the pigeon character. The modeling, texturing and animating for the rest of the objects in the sequence are very professional and well thought-out, but the mischievous pigeon’s movements are believable and comical, the success of which is down to Lucas’ study of real pigeons, as shown in one of his podcasts.
A rookie secret agent is faced with a problem seldom covered in basic training: what to do when a curious pigeon gets trapped inside your multi-million dollar, government-issued nuclear briefcase.
