Category Archives: Projects

Mankind: The Story of all of Us

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Reel to come.

I was responsible for creating a look for a series of shots which showed the spread of plague across Europe. To achieve a more organic spread I incorporated SoftImage ICE strands with Byungchul Kang’s Spreading Weights tutorial to output and render particles to be used as mattes in Nuke.

As part of the series style, I also produced a shot using ICE strands to illustrate the Silk Route (trading routes) from China to Europe.

Software: Autodesk SoftImage, ICE, Nuke

Created at http://www.lola-post.com/

John Carter

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John Carter VFX Shots from Rasik Gorecha on Vimeo.

VFX Breakdown

John Carter VFX Breakdown from Rasik Gorecha on Vimeo.

This was a small freelance job I was asked to do on John Carter. My role was to setup and render a predefined morphing style to the ‘Thern’ (shape shifting) characters. I was provided the 2D plates of the Thern characters morphing from one person to another. I modelled and rotoscoped the morphing character using a standard IK rig and shape animation. I then created weight maps, curves and targets over the 3D rotoscope that I could plug into a supplied ICE compound. This created a network of strands that would grow over the character throughout the morph. The ICE compound was then tweaked for timing and look accordingly.

Autodesk Softimage, ICE, Nuke

Richard Hammond’s Journey to The Centre of The Planet

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For this two part BBC show, I was predominantly working on creating a shader that worked with Lola’s earth setup in Softimage to drain the earth’s oceans revealing a waterless planet. Using hi-res bathymetry data and procedural maps we were able to illustrate in great detail the terrain that is submerged below our oceans.
As part of the draining setup I created a Nuke script to composit the various rendered passes.

00:33 is a shot from a sequence I worked on which illustrated the interior the structure of the earth.
00:40 is a shot in which I used a simple Softimage ICE compound to add the growing clusters of diamonds along the channels of lava as it forces its way to the surface of the planet.
00:54 is a shot in which I was responsible for setting up and animating the movement of new oceanic floor which is produced at the mid ocean ridge. As it spreads, it buckles under immense pressures.

Additional duties included previz, animation, lighting, and compositing

Software: Autodesk SoftImage, ICE, Nuke, Photoshop

Created at http://www.lola-post.com/