Nice work, Jared. Great to see this level of work coming out of South
Africa.

Michael
(exZim and Durbanite)

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 6:19 AM, Jared <[email protected]>wrote:

>  Hello everybody
>
> Just wanted to let you all know there was a small featurette released on
> vimeo - http://vimeo.com/49767597
>
> We used nuke in the post-production process accompanied by a Python based
> pipeline. The motion blur was done in post too using ReelSmart. I made some
> custom lensflare, heathaze, etc nodes in Nuke so we could cut out having to
> render those in the 3D package. The film being rendered in stereo did add a
> level of complexity to the plugin creation, compositing and pretty much
> everything else involved. And besides the rest of the comp team and I
> roto-ing out spots of specular on leaves that "broke stereo" the stereo
> experience was pretty amazing.
>
> For the rest of the film, to quote the Technical Supervisor (Sandy
> Sutherland):
> "We finished the movie completely in Softimage rendered with Mental Ray,
> it was a huge learning experience but given the size of Triggerfish, it
> would not have been possible to have done this in any other software.  ICE
> is used extensively to create various assets and effects AND to fix stuff -
> it certainly was a Swiss Army Knife for us.
>
> Oh - the dust and smoke stuff was rendered with Fury from Exocortex -
> feathers for Zam were done with MB_feathers which we built a pipeline
> around to do caching to geometry for rendering."
>
> --
> Kind Regards,
> Jared Glass <[email protected]> | Technical Lead
> Triggerfish Animation Studios <http://www.triggerfish.co.za>
> Zambezia Movie <http://www.zambeziamovie.com/> | Khumba 
> Movie<http://www.triggerfish.co.za/khumba/>
>
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