We were commissioned to recreate a highly realistic 3D animation of a classic car driving past a local shopping centre—an everyday scene deeply rooted in Kenyan urban life.
The process began with on-ground reference collection: photos, textures, and video clips of actual neighborhood shops, signboards, waste bins, electricity poles, and road textures. We paid close attention to the small details—faded paint on shop walls, rust on metal signage, and even scratch card posters.
Using Blender, we modeled every asset from scratch. The car itself was designed to look aged and grounded in realism, with sagging suspension, dusty textures, and subtle wear and tear. The environment was built to echo the hustle of a typical multipurpose estate shop zone.
The animation phase focused on motion realism—wheel rotation, slight camera shake, and shadows shifting as the car moves past the scene. Finally, we rendered everything in Cycles, using realistic lighting and post-processing to deliver that near-photo-real final look.
This project was a fun mix of Kenyan nostalgia and technical precision, and it allowed us to flex our storytelling through realism in animation.
