Sharks Case Study

CGI & Retouching: The Operators

Discipline: CGI and Retouching

Brief:

The Operators created this underwater scene to demonstrate our skills in organic environmental form.

Our Role:

Referencing the anatomical form / shape of great white sharks, alongside multiple photographic references of the creatures. The Operators sketched different positions for the layout. Formulating the full production from CGI, creative retouching and colour grading.

Production / Solution:

The sharks were fully modelled using reference material. Fine detail was added for scaring, and skin texture. Meticulous attention to detailing was especially applied to the mouth, inner mouth and teeth areas for the believability to the organic form. The models were then carefully textured and light with soft refraction’s of surface water rolling over the skin of the sharks. Once the positions had been determined the assets were rendered out to take them into the retouching stage.

Here they were finalised and bedded into a generated water environment. The plankton and water particles were also generated within retouching to allow for a faster pipeline of change to occur when needed.

The image was then finalised and integrated together with colour graduations and a sparkle of top surface water ripples.

Result:

The image was an overall success, due to the eye for detail and realism that was executed to produce a realistic organic form.

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Pre-Production / Reference Material

Pre-Production / Texture Creation

Pre-Production / Wire Frames

Production / Angle Clays

Production / Final Render