Sauvage | Short Film | 2021

Short film made in 3 weeks with
Bastien HALTER https://www.artstation.com/tsab

I was responsible for the first few shots (up until 25 seconds).
Bastien took care of most of the compositing on all shots.

Some cliffs I made procedurally with Houdini.
The rest is either megascans or matte painted.

Using scans for this project allowed us to go for larger environments on a short production time.
It also taught us that scans often can't be used as is, but have to be modified and adapted to a scene.
Sometimes it's just a quick color correction, sometimes you need to change the material entirely, or resculpt the mesh.
Tried out different scattering techniques with Houdini, Houdini Engine, and Mash.
Matte painting also allowed us to go bigger, by letting us make our backgrounds quickly and efficiently, as well as do touch-ups and corrections once the renders where done.