My contribution
Environment creation, set dressing, lighting and animation/render scene setup.
Software
Maya, Redshift, Plantfactory
Across the project, I also set up the scenes for animation and rendering, adapting them to the requirements of each shot.
Harbor Shots (first two shots)
I created the main light setup and set dressing for these shots.
Arlong Park Sequence
I created the tropical environments from the ground up, generating trees and plants in PlantFactory and scattering grass using MASH in Maya.
Buggy’s Tent
I created the ground surface, which is visible only in the 9:16 version.
The instagram (9:16) version
It is always a bit interesting and challenging to create movies that need to work within all the various social media formats. One thing is for the story and the composition, but we always end up seeing more or less of the environment as well, so I need to make environments that works in all the formats. For this project we rendered the movie in 1:1 and cropped it to the various version afterwards. But within Maya we have an imageplane on each camera so we can see what the formats will actually look like.
