Michel Samreth
DEMO 2013 BREAKDOWN
LIGHTING TD / GENERALIST CG ARTIST
De mo B r eak dow n
00:00:00:00 - 00:00:23:20
Email:
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"MAN OF STEEL" - Director: Zack Snyder (2013) EXTRACTED FROM ONLINE TRAILER (sorry for the bad definition) - Lighting of CG characters, environment and FX (fire, smoke, dust, debris...) 00:00:00:00 - 00:00:15:02 : Lighting of Superman, trees, animals, dust (volumes, points, geometry) 00:00:15:03 - 00:00:18:07 : Lighting of characters, train, house (left), Sears mall, fire, smoke, dust and destruction debris 00:00:18:08 - 00:00:23:20 : Lighting of characters, armors, spaceship exterior, helmet and breather
Applications: Maya, Renderman 00:00:23:21 - 00:00:32:02
"DAYS OF GRACE" - Director: Everardo Gout (2012) - VFX Lookdev and compositing of the head wound (DMP, rotoanimation, tracking...) - Smoke added in comp from reel elements - Added CG brain, blood and bone fragments (animation, Lighting, Compositing) - On the 3th shot: had to make a CG character animation to replace most of the flying body from the footage, in order to match the next shot landing position, had to cast a shadow on the ground. I also had to DMP the body parts that were hidden by the mastress that was on the set to secure the actor’s fall. (DMP, animation, camera projections) Applications: BUF softwares
00:00:32:03 - 00:00:47:13
"THE GATEKEEPERS" - Director: Dror Moreh (2012) - Lighting and Lookdev of the CG communication room - Layout (cameras animation)
Applications: Maya, Vray 00:00:47:14 - 00:01:02:00
"ARTHUR 3, the War of the Two Worlds" - Director: Luc Besson (2010) - I was Lead Lighter and Compositor, in charge of several sequences of the movie (Attic environment). - Lighting and compositing of all these shots - Lighting and compositing of all the key-shots from the sequences I was responsible for. - Leading of a small team to ensure the lighting artistic direction continuity on all the shots, in close relation with the vfx supervisors. Applications: BUF softwares
00:01:02:01 - 00:01:14:15
"SPEED RACER" - Directors: Andy & Lana Wachowski (2008) - Cars, cameras and CG set elements animation on several shots - Tracking and Matchmoving - Lighting and compositing
Applications: BUF softwares 00:01:14:16 - 00:01:22:05
"FAST & FURIOUS 6" - Director: Justin Lin (2013) - Lighting and Lookdev on CG buildings for set extenssions - background and side buildings replacement
Applications: Maya, Renderman 00:01:22:06 - 00:01:29:13
"THE PIROGUE" - Director: Moussa Toure (2012) EXTRACTED FROM DVD (sorry for the bad definition) - Lighting and Lookdev of the CG boat
Applications: Maya, Mental Ray 00:01:29:14 - 00:01:37:09
"ASTERIX AT THE OLYMPIC GAMES" - Directors: T. Langmann / F. Forestier (2008) - Modeling of the cg parts of the stadium and some of the surrounding buildings - Lighting and Compositing of the shots (cg mountains, cg stadium parts and tours, cg crowd, dust elements)
Applications: BUF softwares 00:01:37:10 - 00:01:43:01
"THOR" - Director: Kenneth Branagh (2011) - Compositing, Lighting, Tracking, Prep, Keying - Green screen replacement on the backgrounds - VFX Lookdev for the «burning chest» shots : - CG metal armor added on the arms (Lighting, comp and animation) - CG burned / damaged parts on the chest (Lighting, comp and animation) - Incandescence added and animated (compositing) Applications: BUF softwares
00:01:43:02 - 00:01:55:03
"SPLICE" - Director: Vincenzo Natali (2009) - Character Animation (keyframe) of the creature and its facial expressions - Rotoscopic animation of set elements interfering with the creature - Rotoscopic animation of the creature puppet when it is in the actress arms, in order to match the contacts with the hands and the blanket Applications: BUF softwares
00:01:55:04 - 00:01:58:12
"WELCOME TO HOXFORD" - Fan short film - Director: Julien Mokrani (2011) - Lighting, Compositing, Tracking, Prep, Keying - Green screen behind the windows replaced with cg moving landscape and dust from stockshot video elements. - color correction referring to the comic books «Welcome to Hoxford» created by Eisner Award and Ben Templesmith. - VFX creation on the actor’s glasses Applications: Maya, Mental Ray, Nuke
00:01:58:13 - 00:02:07:07
"ARTHUR 2, the Revenge of Maltazard" - Director: Luc Besson (2009) - Lighting and compositing of all these shots - Lighting and compositing of the key-shots from several sequences. - Leading of a small team to ensure the lighting artistic direction continuity on all the shots, in close relation with the vfx supervisors. Applications: BUF softwares
