The excitement is palpable! This is the day all the kernels have been waiting for!
The chance to be popped by the Butterkist canon, and forever live as a delicious popcorn kernel.
Working with mighty nice I looked after look dev and compositing, as well as designing motion elements and some simple houdini pyro sims to sell the hero kernel popping off.
Our buttery world is kept simple and clean. A fun fantasy with enough little graphic additions to make it charming.
Both the popcorn pyro and the background and 2D elements in the above shot were done in Houdini and rendered in Redshift.
Above: Stylized speed lines generated procedurally in houdini.
STUDIO
Mighty Nice
DIRECTOR
Mighty Nice
DIRECTOR
Darren Price
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
Mike Bell (Nexus Studios)
HEAD OF PRODUCTION
Tina Braham
PRODUCER
Samantha Daley, Mariano Melman (Nexus Studios), Rebecca Archer (Nexus Studios)
JUNIOR PRODUCER
Diana Angelius
HEAD OF STUDIO
Jeremy Howdin
ART DIRECTOR
Softly Dunstan
STORYBOARDS
Bonnie Forsyth
CHARACTER DESIGNS
Andrew Onorato
ENVIRONMENT DESIGNS
Jason Pamment
MODEL/SURFACE
Trent Rogan, Albert Hogeol Lee
RIGGING
Jason Dobra
ANIMATION LEAD
Michael Shiao Chen
ANIMATION
Duncan MacLaren
MOTION DESIGN & HOUDINIFX
MOTION DESIGN & HOUDINIFX
Chris Angelius
LIGHTING
Trent Rogan, Jason Dobra, Mat McCosker
COMPOSITE
Chris Angelius
