Sausage Party: Foodtopia - Matte Painting

Throughout the vast majority of 2023, I was a member of the Matte Painting team at Stellar Creative Labs, contributing to Prime Video's adult 3D animated series "Sausage Party: Foodtopia" - a sequel to the original movie released in 2016.

During my time in Sausage Party, I have helped the team to establish workflows for digital matte painting that exploited 2D and 3D tools to achieve feature-quality, multipurpose set extensions that could be utilized across multiple shots in a specific location and time of day. Part of my contributions was to document all my findings and new strategies so the entire team could benefit from them too.

I dedicated most of my time to painting large reusable assets, such as cycloramas, skydomes, and cards, as well as modelling 3D assets for the creation of competent mock-ups to be used as a foundation for painting. Surprisingly, there was a decent variety of things I ended up creating; from residential neighbourhoods to massive cities filled with skyscrapers, from mountain ranges to deserts, from clouds in the sky all the way to outer space! All in a cartoon about sentient food.

With the show's launch in 2024 and its recent release of season 2 in 2025, I wanted to put together a project presentation showcasing some of the work I did for the show while breaking down a bit of the process and some things I have learned along the way. It was a very challenging project, with lots of revisions, big assets, and a lot of new tools to learn. Today, however, I can only look back at what the team and I did and feel fulfilled and proud.