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Castle / “Linchpin”
Studio: Encore Hollywood
CG Supervisor: Armen Kevorkian
Disciplines
Lead Artist
Look Dev
Lighting & Rendering
Software
3dsmax
V-Ray
Frost
“This cant look fake”
For the season 4 finale of Castle we were tasked with a cliffhanger. The main characters are pushed over a dock into the water.
“Due to the overbearing Actors Guild we couldn’t drowned the cast, pfft!”
The scene required a lot of attention. First we were going to be very close to the Police Interceptor. So any damages and/or scuffs needed to be added on to the 3d model. Next was how to make a blue car look good underwater. The answers were bubbles…lot and lot of bubbles.
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“Just keep compositing”
The bubbles were created using both Real Flow, Thinking Particles and Basic 3dsMax Particles. All together comp’d in Nuke.
Each scene involved around 5 passes of bubbles: Tiny, medium, large, truck gap, window and frame leaks .
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