I had the chance to work on a unique looking project at BUCK. The spot is a mix of in game footage and animated cel, but there were a few shots that had a really dynamic camera and so that's where 3D came in.

I was responsible for modeling a few characters to match a pose that was drawn by our 2D team. I took that styleframe and used a back and forth mix of ZBrush and Maya to get the pose as close as possible. Then I used Substance Painter to break out masks for the fill, lines and shadow of the characters so they could be comped in Nuke to look like cel.

Watch the spot on the BUCK website and admire some more behind the scenes and juicy styleframes.

BUCK

Group Creative Director - Thomas Schmid
Executive Producer - Luisa Murray
Senior Producer - Andrew Chan Gladstone
Production Coordinator - Celine Nguyen
Design Lead - Matthew Kam
Designers - Alex Kiesling / Jacob Myrick / Joćo Lavieri / Kuu Chen / Rich Kelly / Sol Lee / Thea Glad / Thomas Schmid
2D Cel Lead - Tucker Klein
2D Compositing Lead - Nick Petley
2D Cel Animators - Daiqi Cui / Junyi Xiao / Nick Knezvich / Stephen Loveluck / Tucker Klein
2D AE Animation & Compositing - Gilles Desmadrille / Nick Petley
3D Compositing Lead - Daniel Pernikoff
3D Lead - Marc Steinberg
3D Animation - John Karian / Josh Baum
Modeling - Arvid Volz / Elias Glasch
Look Development - Marc Steinberg / Rui Huang
FX - Marc Steinberg
Rigging - Hernan Ares / Juan Carlos Barraza Mendoza
Editor - Cameron Kelly / Nick Petley
Technical Director + Conform Artist - Ben Rohel
Global Head of Design - Brian Won
Global Head of 2D - Daniel Coutinho
Head of 2D - LA - Peter Kallstrom
Head of 2D - NYC - Mercy Lomelin
Head of 3D - LA - Alex Dingfelder
Head of 3D - NYC - Bill Dorais