THE TWO OF US TAKE ON STRANGE
PACKET SHIP
Originally the packet ship was more of a background piece to the sand horses but once the VFX Supervisor saw the amount of detail put into the model, a decision was made to show closer shots of the sand horses rescuing the packet ship from capsizing.
Concept to concrete
Modeling of the seven kings and bishop statue.
Creating the seven kings heads ended up more of a technical achievement, as all these kings had to talk to one another.
Creating each of the seven heads with the same topology allowed us to create one set of blendshapes, which would work for all (after a little love and manual work that is) saving us the pain of creating a unique blendshape set for each.
The Bishop however was a made up statue unlike the kings heads which were based off real statues from the church. The director showed us two reference images he favoured and we were on our way. Because we knew he was going to have dialog and would be very close to camera, we decided to make his face a bit fleshier than a standard statue to create more life in the movement. Once the FX crew added in all the cracks and damage on top this would reassure the statue look and feel.