In the first scene, I imagined a moment where a woman is being tried and killed by a skeleton preacher. I want to make the first character before I make the scene.
I created a basic character model in DAZ and imported it into ZBRUSH for carving the character’s facial features. Then I used a set of 3Dscean real person scanning materials and projected them on the model with WARP4D. In addition, the material was put into Substance Painter for rendering the character’s materials
After creating the cell division animation, I exported the model animation to C4D to render the material, using C4D because I thought Octane renderer in C4D could better capture the details and textures of transparent 3S materials than UNREAL.
The general idea of the production is to first make a basic cell model, reconstruct the model in HOUDINI, extract the midpoint, split the model into two halves and repair the split face in the middle, then make the effect of model separation and restoration through code and nodes, and finally simulate with VELLUM. In the model of generating intermediate nuclei through VDB nodes.
Storytelling is my favorite and most important thing in digital art, so in the FVP stage I want to bring my ideas about storytelling into digital art in this way. I came up with the theme of the film, Moment, after a few days of thinking
I hope to make two moments of life and death through cell division as a medium. With this theme, I began to search for relevant videos and materials
When I first saw the CG of the Westworld TV series, I was deeply shocked. The story and emotions conveyed by it made me like it very much. Therefore, as a starting point, I tried to learn its rhythm and operation mode to make the final film.
First, I started to make animations of cell division. I started to learn HOUDINI from an online tutorial. After two weeks of learning and making, I made animations of cell division