Lucy teaser was released at CTN Animation Expo this weekend!

Huge thanks to Jason Ryan, Brad Jacobson, Todd Glover, Greg White, Larry Vasquez, Victor Vinyals, Juan Solis, Immanuel Matias and everyone else who made this horrifying thing happen!

Password: iACTNX

 

Character lighting from Greg White

Greg's a pro lighter at DreamWorks and has signed on to help us refine our lighting schemes.  I like the results so far!

Aaditi Dutt's blog

One of our matte painters, Aaditi Dutt, has posted on her blog a fascinating collection of photographs of a fire in her building (Aaditi is ok :)), some of which may be mined for use in texturing the bleak environments in Lucy.  Additi is a fantastic talent, but don't take my word for it.  See her work for yourself:

 

http://aaditidutt.com/2012/10/02/project-365-day-180/

http://aaditidutt.com/2012/10/01/project-365-day-179/

http://aaditidutt.com/2012/10/01/project-365-day-178/

http://aaditidutt.com/2012/10/01/project-365-day-177/

Harry Ellard volumetric clouds

Harry Ellard is a master vfx artist.  Our first clouds.

1FST/s2 light and rain

We're working to push this shot through our pipe so you'll be able to watch it come together in stages. 

Joost Van Schaik's first pass lighting with layout-level geometry and 2D fog/rain mockup in post.

Harry Ellard's first pass rain fx.

First renders of IP production shots

From Robbie Raio:

From Andrew Ford

Not to bad lighting for a pair of character animators!!! :)

Refinement of Scarecrow facial textures

Works in progress skin upgrades by Weecho, including more subtle stains and refinement of burlap surfacing

Before the upgrade:

Weecho's final texturing on Todd Glover's haunted house

I really wish I could convert my suburban tract home into 

something like this.  My neighbors would be so pissed.

Thanks for the awesome work Todd & Weecho!

Harry Ellard's fluid dynamics

Our first visual effects from veteran Harry Ellard!

Shot 2 seq 1 moving through the pipe

Set extension concept by Aaditi Dutt:

Initial lighting tests from Joost van Schaik:

Initial rain/clouds/fog from Harry Ellard:

Initial house surfacing from Weecho:

Lighting test

God rays from Samba siva Rao Gondi.

Megan Walker and Todd Glover house exterior

The final exterior of Todd Glover's exquisite house model, and below it a color/texture reference image from Megan Walker who is currently engaged in surfacing.

Team Lucy is growing!

Some newer members to team Lucy I'd like to introduce:

Harry Ellard - vfx
Aaditi Dutt - matte painting
Filippo Dattola - modeling and animation
Jose "Weecho" Velasquez - surfacing
Megan Walker - surfacing

Our crew has grown to about 30 artists!

Dream turns to nightmare

A peek at one of Brad Jacobson's production shots. So far we haven't posted any of Lucy's character animation- trying to keep it a secret. But what's a Lucy blog without a glimpse of her in action?

This is the moment Lucy realizes she's not in Kansas any more. It's about to get ugly.

Brad you rock.

Ravi Kamble Govind Scarecrow entry for Concurso Arte y Animación

Ravi is a Lucy animator, and a great one at that, but there are many iAnimators not working on Lucy who've done great things with our rigs. I'd love to feature some of them in the coming weeks. Always fun to see what people are doing with these characters outside the scope of actual Lucy production. If you are one of those animators please drop me a line so we can showcase your work!

Thanks for this moment of pure evil Ravi-