Aw thank you. We deliberately built the city and forest scenes using different methods. The city stuff was all 3D diorama style in After Effects to make it feel more boxed in and align with the almost cubist woodcut style of the 2D city.
The woods were all blender for more seamless blending of forms and unity in the depth suggesting the organic style of the 2D forest. Defo benefited from working alongside Eduardo Damasceno and his team of final line artists seeing how they did things.
I took my welsh girlfriend to see this film when she was having a real hard time. Dragged her out of bed to an 8am screening (was a film festival), she complained the whole way there & by the end she was crying at how beautiful it was & thanked the organizers.
Amazing film, wonderful work!
Why's that? I am curious, it reminded me of one of my all-time favorites, "American Werewolf in London", was David's dream inspiration somehow? Also take on me? 😁
Oh some growing pains when a 2D studio starts working with 3D previs, especially moving camera work. A lot of the scenes as storyboarded were about half the duration of the final wolfvision shots -
One of the first scenes we started off with: the dream.
I tried out the brand new Grease Pencil add on in Blender, augmenting a forest I sculpted in VR. Here's an early pass, focused on the trees and ground. We used a floating camera for the dream in contrast to when Robyn eventually transforms
So many great artists worked on it and a treat to see what they got up to in there. I was so focused on my work during production at one point I was doing VR nonsense while the crew from Dorg Van Dango were behind me so was literally blinkered haha
Here's another scene from Wolfwalkers. I collaborated with David McDermott on the 3D previs and then got stuck in to the paper render when all timing and movment was approved
Here's the last scene I did on Wolfwalkers. It was a scene that was cut from the animatic for expense but Ross Stewart fought for it to get put back in and squeezed some time out for me
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Absolutely gorgeous work.
Wolfwalkers is one of my all-time favorites. Thank you for your work on it!
Amazing film, wonderful work!
https://eimhinmcnamara.com/wolfwalkers/
I tried out the brand new Grease Pencil add on in Blender, augmenting a forest I sculpted in VR. Here's an early pass, focused on the trees and ground. We used a floating camera for the dream in contrast to when Robyn eventually transforms
It gave me shivers and deja vu to watch and it's one of my all-time favorite animated sequences. You really did an amazing job 🌕🐺