1. Garth the Gargoyle A ride through the uncanny valley.

2. Goal Requirements for successful CG- implementation

3. Goal Requirements for successful CG- implamentation Focus on animation and compositing

4. Concept Challenging design – Hind legs – Wings – Tail

5. Concept Challenging design – Hind legs – Wings – Tail Challenging scene and light – Daylight. Cannot hide mistakes. – Ice and snow. Sparkle effect, subsurface scattering and bounce light.

6. Concept Early concepts

7. Concept Added filmed clip to storyboard – Increased animation and compositing challenge

8. Modeling Three models

9. Modeling Three models – Base mesh. Even edge flow for optimal sculpting

10. Modeling Three models – High poly. 9 million triangles. Used for baking displacement and normal maps.

11. Modeling Three models – Low poly. Topology designed for animation and good displacement map subdivision.

12. Rigging

13. Intuitive – Less hands on animation

14. Rigging Intuitive – Less hands on animation Muscle system – As part of an intuitive rigg.

15. Rigging Intuitive – Less hands on animation Muscle system – As part off an intuitive rigg. – Free deformation animations

16. Rigging Intuitive – Less hands on animation Muscle system – As part off an intuitive rigg. – Free deformation animations – Keeps volume on bending regions of mesh

17. Rigging Intuitive – Less hands on animation Muscle system – As part off an intuitive rigg. – Free deformation animations – Keeps volume on bending regions of mesh – Muscle and wing jiggle

18. Rigging

19. Issues: – Muscle deformation on displacement map defined mesh. Have to render to see the true deformation on mesh.

20. Rigging Issues: – Muscle deformation on displacement map defined mesh. Have to render to see the true deformation on mesh. – Tail rigg too intuitive Easy to use, hard to master.

21. Animation Winged predator with tail – Different center of weight. Can lean forward more – Strong and agile motion scheme – Aggressive behaviour Like other predators, moves into position for attack

22. Animation

24. Issues with filmed material – Time the animation with other characters – Hectic flow of planned poses, – Loss of CG-characters weight and momentum.

25. Animation Issues with filmed material – Time the animation with other characters – Hectic flow of planned poses, – Loss of CG-characters weight and momentum. Wings collides with itself. – Better skin weighting and added edges.

26. Shaders

27. Mental ray mia_material

28. Shaders Mental ray mia_material – Final Gather and IBL lighting

29. Shaders Mental ray mia_material – Final Gather and IBL lighting – Mib_flakes for frost glitter effect

30. Shaders Mental ray mia_material – Final Gather and IBL lighting – Mib_flakes for frost glitter effect – SSS shader for snow/ice subsurface scattering

31. Shaders Mental ray mia_material – Final Gather and IBL lighting – Mib_flakes for frost glitter effect – SSS shader for snow/ice subsurface scattering – Render passes

32. Shaders Don’t overdo the mib_flakes.

33. Render and Comp Render passes – 32-bit.EXR Material Color Direct lighting Indirect lighting Raw Shadow Specular Reflection Matte

34. Render and Comp Nuke setup – 3D-projection scene – Backgrounds are still photos – Imported camera with baked animation – Grade and color correction – Light wrap – Motion blur – Film noise

35. Render and Comp

39. Conclusion Muscle system not necessary – A Pose Space Deformation solution had been equally effective The use of actors as animation reference vital – Should have used an extra actor for gargoyle movement reference Displacement maps are time consuming Nuke is a powerful tool. Prepare for it! Maya 2012 is another kind of ”tool”…

40. Thanks to: My mentor, Mattias Bergbom – VFX consultant for DD Erik Öhman – awesome actor and post-master My awesome classmates! And to gscept for giving me this opportunity! jimbo.sahlin@gmail.comjimbo.sahlin@gmail.comgscept logga :P