United Nations - Project Everyone

FILMS Chicken Run 2 Wallace & Gromit Farmageddon Early Man SHORT FORM UN Project Everyone Staves Winter Trees Rays Big Idea INTERACTIVE Virtual Production Unreal Fellowship Game Production CRAFT School Model Burrow House The Castle

This was my first cg-supervising project with lots of CG FX. Usually working on commercials at Aardman we added to the stop motion in ways which were invisible and blended with the Aardman stop motion look or we created a fully CG commercial but often they mimicked a stop motion style (simple characters, white cove background etc). This project was full of lots of fury and feathery animals in a fully CG environment that had to look like the real United Nations building in New York!  We developed a system of facial blend shapes and rig which could work across multiple animals to reduce work. I brought in fur specialists for a new FX pipeline we worked on and had to learn how to rig feathers for wings that gestured like arms and folded away in the same shot. Lots of challenges to overcome but a really fun and exciting project to work on which packed a lot of lessons into a 60 second film, and all for a good cause. Below is a break down of a single shot.