Blue Visual - Honeyglue

Zombot Pictures hired me for their film Honeyglue for VFX/compositing and also for 2D animation of a storybook which I worked with illustrations from another artist.

For the 3D aspects, I used Luxology’s Modo 701. It was my first project where I had built my own character, discovering the complexities, frustrations, and satisfaction of building and rigging a character from scratch. While its role was not huge, realism was a top priority. I studied motions and visuals of honeybees from videos across the web (and when I encountered them in real life)

Post-Production

Jukebox in the bar scene. UI Design/Rotoscoping/Motion Tracking/Compositing

The jukebox needed to be composited and tracked even into the background

The volumetric cloud shapes composited into a sky

Modeling & Rigging

The bee model with an Inverse Kinematics system

A close-up render of the final bee (you never see it this big in the film)

Story Book

VFX was only half the project, there were also storybook animations for certain narrative portions of the film. I was provided with Photoshop assets from an illustrator who drew them. My job was to take the layers/characters and animate them. I decided to go beyond the 2D realm of a book and try a sort of 3D parallaxing style, which really brought the story book to life.

Using the layers in the provided artwork, I was able to animate, recompose, and relight the scenes however I wanted to.