Lucy light turntable

Character based light rig from Greg White

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Lucy teaser 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!

Please welcome lighitng lead Greg White

Greg's a pro lighter at DWA and has signed on to help us refine our lighting schemes and really plus the piece as a whole.  Super excited to have him on board!

Robbie Raio Scarecrow lighting test

We've got a great new 'wet look' eye shader coming from Joost van Schaik and new Scarecrow facial textures from Weecho- tb implemented soon both of which will really plus our noir lighting style.

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 clouds

Alex Ware vfx test - Lucy's mother's dress

There's a ghostly apparition in Lucy's nightmare, a memory of her deceased mother that appears in the form of a dress carried by the wind.  Alex Ware, our newest vfx artist is bringing it to life with a kind of beauty that is downright haunting.  Thank you Alex!

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 glimpses of rendered Lucy with first pass lighting

From Robbie Raio:

and

Andrew Ford

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

Refinement of Scarecrow facial textures

Awesome works in progress by Weecho

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's first pass puddle fx

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:

Samba siva lighting test

First pass lighting key of seq2 shot1 from new lighter Samba siva Rao Gondi!

Harry Ellard

Please click the image below to see some haunting fx tests from one of our latest greatest additions to the team, Harry Ellard.

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:

Samba siva Gondi - lighting
Nikhil Aggarwal - lighting
Kishore Kumar - lighting
Dushyant Bhardwaj - lighting, surfacing
Harry Ellard - vfx
Aaditi Dutt - matte painting
Filippo Dattola - modeling and animation
Jose "Weecho" Velasquez - surfacing
Megan Walker - surfacing (who has been with us since the beginning but never officially announced :))

Thanks so much for joining the cause!

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.

Slurp your brains

Scrarecrow animation ala Darrell Vasquez!

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-