
Collaborating for kindness
This film was produced for a collaboration between vegan artists, in order to set out a mission status for the collective and recruit more members. Each member produced a part of the script in a different style, and I used the opportunity to flex my improved 3D skillset to make this fly-through a vivid night garden.


Storyboard
Style & Build
I'd just finished a client project where I made a lot of photo-realistic plants, so I was excited to make something more stylised with our chosen colour palette. I used a strongly coloured side light to give a gentle gradient from the purple to the mid pink.
I used a collection of nested cloners for the plants layout and scattering across the surface topology.
I then used a method that allowed me to use a heat map to control where the plants would appear and when they would grow with a set of fields. This allowed me to easily adjust the rate of growth to keep pace with my camera that I had timed to the guide VO.





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I rendered the final pass with Octane, including a set of AOVs that allowed me to add things like depth of field in AE which is faster than rendering in-camera in C4D.
It also allowed me to comp in a couple of sets of floating fire-fly-like lights that float out of the growing plants.​ I was pleased with the final result as were the collective members!
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