Little Antman

[jstrob]

Hi,

I just finished working on a YouTube promotional clip for Marvel Entertainment for the upcoming Antman.

I worked on this during the last 8 weeks around 20 hours a day almost 7 days a week. Insects modeled and painted in zbrush 4R7, shaded, animated (rigged with CAT) and rendered in 3ds Max 2016 and V-Ray 3. With Director Patrick Boivin (with whom I did also Iron Baby many years ago). This time we were paid by Marvel Entertainment to do it! Big Thanks to them and to Pat for letting me work on this!!! See the end of the video for the full credits. A big thanks to Daniel Beaudry et Gian who helped me for the character animation (Pat also animated himself the flying ant).

Some sss was created purely in comp using the vray elements. DOF and motion blur were done in comp too using reel smart and zdepth pass. I outputed all the raw ones.

I wanted to add fur with vray fur and use the vray fur styler tool to comb it. Seemed like a fast workflow. But I just lacked some time to be able to do it. We had the go for the project a bit too late. But I will make a version of my ant and ladybug with vray fur in the near future for sure. For now I have to take care of my 2 babies (my second one is just born a few days ago).

see the clip on my Youtube Channel

[Syclone1]

Awesome job on the video!! and congrats to you on your new little one as well

[jstrob]

Thanks Syclone1

[zoranm]

That's so cute! Congratulations on the job well done and the new baby! Zoran

[AJ Jefferies]

Great stuff!

Personally I found the constant focus shifting a little distracting and the last shot where the kid is trying to flip the beetle then suddenly large and holding it on his finger was a bit weird - but I realise these choices were probably out of your control!

Jesus, 8 weeks x 20 hour days AND a new baby. Make sure you take at least a month off, you definitely deserve it!

[Morne]

Awesome stuff as usual Jocelyn! Saw it on LinkedIN a few days ago, very nice work!

AJ, also sent you a PM a few days ago!

[jstrob]

Thanks guys,

AJ, the DOF was entirely made in comp by the director Patrick Boivin. I think it's really cool in fact. If you look at insects photography, that's the look you get with a very shallow depth of field. The end may be a bit abrupt, I agree now that you talk about it. But it didn't bother me at first. I think I will be able to judge better after a few weeks of rest . For sure we had to do it faster than we would have like the go on the project was given a bit late by Marvel. I was originally supposed to do everything alonw but I finally had to get some help for character animation and also rendering.