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Spurs out short animated movie : Stylized dragon

I was lucky enough to be able to help the group on the film Spurs out from ESMA Toulouse, where I took care of all the dragons in terms of sculpting, texturing, shading and lookdev in a USD pipeline.
It was a first for me to work on Solaris/Renderman, and I was really happy to be able to practice this brand new lookdev mode, which taught me a lot about cleanliness and organization on a project.
The magniability of settings and scenes was very natural, and I was able to adapt to the group's pipeline to release a man asset as quickly as possible (1 month and half)
I'd like to thank the whole group for the great working atmosphere despite the rush at the end of production, and I hope they enjoyed working with me during the prod!

Credit :
- Modeling of the dragon by Nicolas Tran
- USD Pipeline and FX by Raphael Gimard
- Animation and cam by Lola Charuel (animated seq 1 and 2) and Salome Blasco (animated seq 3)
- Rigging by Theo Murat
- Compositing by Alix Saintouil (seq 2 and 3) and Guillaume Durand (seq 1 and 2)
- Canyon lighting by Thomas Sudre
- Grooming and setdress by Salma Rachidi

Sequence 2

Sequence 3

Here are a few shots from the film
Sequence 1

Here are a few other single-frame shots of the film featuring the dragon

Here are a few other single-frame shots of the film featuring the dragon

View port of the lookdev scene in which I made the dragon

View port of the lookdev scene in which I made the dragon

Nodal set up in Solaris

Nodal set up in Solaris

Shader tree and organization of the differents materials

Shader tree and organization of the differents materials

Main reference for the creation of the dragon asset

Main reference for the creation of the dragon asset

Thanks for taking the time to look at my post and thanks again to the whole group, the film will be available on the ESMA youtube channel in about 1 year's time.

Thanks for taking the time to look at my post and thanks again to the whole group, the film will be available on the ESMA youtube channel in about 1 year's time.