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SHOT BREAKDOWN

Initial sketch

Primal Predator project is based on 7 full cgi shots. Here you can see some informations showing the storyboard idea, final look you will reach and what you will learn following all course lessons shot by shot. For all scenes we'll take care about naming convention, layering, scene and asset management in a efficient and professional way.

SHOT 01 - "The Primal Land"

Final look

It is out 1st shot, we are moving down to the ground slowly with the camera to arrive to the land where dinosaurs lives :

• Preparing camera animation

• Terrain modeling using tyFlow, procedural texture generation

• Exporting and optimizing terrain mesh

• Daylight lighting

• Scattering plants using Forest Pro/Chaos Scatter, masking and variation techniques

• Clouds setup with Embergen, export to VDB, shading with V-Ray

• Multipass compositing techniques / Look tuning and additional effects in DaVinci Resolve

SHOT 02 - "Dinosaur swimming"

Initial sketch

Final look

We see dinosaur hunting and swimming in a calm water river :

• Preparing camera animation

• Water simulation with Chaos Phoenix, interaction with dinosaur, spray and foam setup, dynamic optimization to achieve best compromise between realism, speed and quality

• Wet mapping simulation, exporting data to material setup to simulate wet effect over dinosaur skin

• Water plane extension

• Dinosaur animated cache management

• Daylight lighting

• Realistic dinosaur material setup, skin SSS shading techniques

• Multipass compositing techniques / Look tuning and additional effects in DaVinci Resolve

SHOT 03 - "Small waterfall"

Initial sketch

Final look

Dinosaur is hunting in a forest and it comes out from a small waterfall :

• Preparing camera animation

• Creating a nice looking background environment using Megascans assets, tweaking materials

• Procedural animation of moving plants

• Small scale waterfall setup using Chaos Phoenix, dynamic setup, wet mapping simulation

• Rendering optimization

• Daylight lighting

• Realistic dinosaur material setup, skin SSS shading techniques

• Multipass compositing techniques / Look tuning and additional effects in DaVinci Resolve

SHOT 04 - "Raining on foilage / Hunting in the forest"

Initial sketch

3D layout

Rain falling down in a forest, macro camera on foilage details and hunting dinosaur :

• Preparing camera animation

• Creating a nice looking background environment using various assets, tweaking materials

• Procedural animation of moving plants

• Generic falling rain setup with tyFlow, caching and optimization techniques, tyMesher setup

• Rain interaction and secondary collision dynamic simulation, setup done with tyFlow / tyMesher

• Procedural animation of moving plants

• Dynamic simulation of Dinosaur moving between plants and foilage prepared with tyFlow

• Mud terrain simulation and interaction with dinosaur feet done with tyFlow, exporting simulated data, rendering techniques of grain sim data

• Massive scattering techniques

• Realistic rainy forest look dev

• Multipass compositing techniques / Look tuning and additional effects in DaVinci Resolve

SHOT 05 - "Falling sky"

Initial sketch

3D layout

Some small meteors falling down from the sky, a larger one collides with the ground behind mountain creating an amazing large scale explosion, debris, dust all over the camera  :

• Preparing camera animation

• Creating a nice looking background environment using Megascans assets and procedural techniques

• Procedural animation of moving plants

• Falling meteors setup done with Embergen, rendering setup

• Large scale multi-layer explosion setup in Embergen, realistic lighting and shading, rendering setup, exporting frames to comp

• Realistic lighting setup

• Dust setup with Embergen, exporting data to VDB in 3ds max, shading with V-Ray

• Rendering tricks to manage all datas together

• Multipass compositing techniques / Look tuning and additional effects in DaVinci Resolve

SHOT 06 - "No place to hide"

Initial sketch

3D layout

Time goes fast, but not fast enough, explosion is over, life is over too, we are in a dead and cold land, dust, smoke and fire all around :

• Preparing camera animation

• Creating a realistic dead and cold land using Megascans assets and procedural techniques

• Cloudy sky simulated with EmberGen, simulating lighting / thunders between clouds

• Various smoke and fire assets simulated with Embergen and Phoenix

• Burn effect custom shaders

• Realistic cloudy lighting setup

• Dust setup with Embergen, exporting data to VDB in 3ds max, shading with V-Ray

• Ember particles setup prepared with tyFlow, working with forces and collisions

• Rendering tricks to manage all datas together

• Multipass compositing techniques / Look tuning and additional effects in DaVinci Resolve

3D layout

3D layout

3D layout

Final look

Final look

Final look

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