Delhi based Crazy Cub Animations that is founded and spearheaded by Kamal Pahuja has created a 3D Animated Short titled ‘Totlings- The Birth of Snu
gglish’. Inspired by the characters of animated film ‘Despicable Me’, this 2 minutes 20 seconds short’s story line was provided by the team of Totlings, a Company based in Los Angeles.
Crazy Cub team was provided with basic character designs of this short and initial designs were very outlines of the characters done in Adobe Illustrator.
Short was created in 3 and half months time and a month was taken for executing the Pre-Production.
Totlings- The Birth of Snugglish from Totlings on Vimeo.
Speaking to AnimationXpress.com about this Totlings- Birth of a Snugglish’, Kamal, Director of 
this short, says, “We reworked on storyboard a number of times till we were satisfied with the overall flow of the story. I feel Pre production is a very important aspect, and if you get it right, it saves a lot of production time.”
On the research front, Crazy Cub took referred to Despicable Me for studying facial expressions and mannerisms of kids and then instilled it into this short.
Kamal adds here, “Along with studying other movies, my son was also a great reference for understanding kids.”
Credits for this short go to, Arun Priya Gautam , Reenu Kamal and Kamal Pahuja for Art Direction, Concept Art – Arun Priya Gautam, Character Modeling and Texturing – Priti Singh Awadhesh Rana, Environment Modeling & Texturing – Awadhesh Rana, Rigging Artist – Aarchish Jain, Animation by Akshata Bhatt, Pooja Krishnan, Preeti Baisoya, Rohan Sikarwa, Sagar Singh, Sachit Anand, Lighting / Rendering – Jatin Parkash, Compositing and Effects – A. Ramesh, Editing – Kamal Pahuja, Background Music and Sound Effects – Dejan Craevic.
Animating the short in 3D was the choice of Totlings team and Kamal considers this medium as the strength of this short.
Adding more on the look and feel, he says, “As the story is happening in a cute and magical world of Totlings, Crazy Cub decided to have a bright, colorful and soft feel to the characters and the environment.”
Magical effects along with lots of lighting and color enhancements were done during Post Production of this short.
“I think the biggest challenge in this project was to maintain simplicity and cuteness.” Shares more
Crazy Cub is presently working on Next set of Tunetoons videos and other 3D animated commercials.
