Exodus - Short Film

This was a short film I created together with four fellow classmates in my 6th semester at the MDH. I was responsible for the story concept, the overall art direction and layout, look dev (lighting/shading), environment art, character art, FX, rendering and compositing of each shot. We used Houdini (Redshift), Zbrush, Substance Painter, Maya, Nuke, Marvelous Designer, Premiere and After Effects.

FINAL SHORT FILM

MAKING OF

by Sophie Kordes

CONCEPT ART

STORYBOARD/LAYOUT

HOUDINI PROCEDURAL JELLYFISH

All created with a node tree in Houdini and utilizing vellum for the body and tentacles that move through a custom velocity field to simulate the feeling of moving through water.

HOUDINI BUBBLE FX SETUP

Using the velocity of an animated object on a pyro smoke sim, I advected particles from the resulting volume to get these bubbles, which can be adjusted in size, amount, etc with a noise attribute.

CHARACTER RENDER TEST

SKIN SHADING BEFORE/AFTER

MARVELOUS DESIGNER CLOTHES

DIVER SUIT SCULPT

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