This episode highlights the process of creating visual effects for the animated short, SMILE.

This second episode features motion capture and how it was used to bring SMILE to life.

A deleted scene from the movie SMILE. In this scene, Smile plays a board game with the balloon. The board game sequence was cut from the film because it slowed the pace of the story development. This scene is in rough-cut animatic form, featuring box skeleton renders of the characters.

This is the first part of a multi-episode documentary of the making of the animated short film, "Smile".

SMILE trailer