Day two was a bit less stressful than the rest however this is where we found out our teams! I was placed with an amazing compositor, Katie Veneman, and a brilliant FX artist, Dale Bunten. We were dubbed Team Bond, and decided that we liked the ring to it. So we are Bond…Team Bond.
We sat down together and started to rack our brains to find out something that could be done that would be both challenging and fun at the same time. Dale was very interested in the idea of having water in the scene wanting to push his skills of the FLIP Fluid solver in Houdini. It was on this path that we found an amazing video that inspired this entire project for us.
The Range Rover’s Taming the Tide video was exactly what we pictured and was an amazing reference to have going into this. But with only an idea on what to do we quickly broke down and decided to take the weekend to fully get ideas going and ready to go.
That weekend I was tasked with figuring out what lighting and mood we were going for with this project. While in the reference video it is overcast, I wanted this to go another way. Bright white beach, bright blue sky, and the warmth of glow from the setting sun to round the entire composition together.
We also have picked out the model that we want to use and will purchase it when we get the okay from The Mill!
We got our reference material together and will be pitching this Wednesday. After that, there is no going back, it is going to be pedal to the metal to finish this project in only 9 weeks.
