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Pink Noise 'Sky Cry' by Kim Chapiron & Jehan Bouazza

Promonews - 28th Feb 2022

Welcome to the world where only futuristic humanoid robots exist, and everyone worships the greatest humanoid robot racing driver: Crashtag.

It's the latest blockbuster for Pink Noise directed by Kim Chapiron, and here co-directed by Paris VFX-studio CG supervisor Jehan Bouazza, based at top Paris VFX house Mathematic.

Bouazza led Mathematic’s team of skilled artisans and animators throughout the nine-month production, encountering challenges in developing a modern and first of its kind music video world, solidifying a unique character design for Crashtag, and managing a high volume of assets required to create the racetrack arena.

Lead Character Artist Camille Gurruchaga oversaw the creation of Crashtag, crafting the character’s background story and psychological profile to inform design decisions, while concept artists simultaneously developed the look of the environments, including the racetrack and larger arena. Once 'lookdev' was finalized, the team set out to produce the five-minute animated sequence, using Zbrush for modeling, Maya for animation, Substance Painter for textures, Nuke and Flame for compositing, Resolve for color grading, and Arnold for the final render.

To bring the anthropomorphic Crashtag character to life, Mathematic motion captured a performance by Ladj Ly, the acclaimed French director of the 2019 film Les Misérables. Ly’s performance imprinted humanlike qualities – including a distinct personality and emotional warmth, when it comes to the crunch. And there is a crunch.

Promonews - 28th Feb 2022

Tags

  • Animation
  • CGI
  • Narrative
  • VFX
  • Dance
  • Electronic
  • Robot
  • Cars, racing
  • Car Crash

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Credits

Production/Creative

Director
Kim Chapiron
Director
Jehan Bouazza
Production Company
Mathematic
Production Company
Production Company
Quiet
Production Company
Viral
Executive Producer
Guillaume Marien

Editorial

Editor
Margerie Argentin
Editor
Benjamin Weil

Grading

Colourist
Emiliano Serantoni

VFX

Post Producer
Jérémy Dumètre

Misc

Animation supervisor
Jehan Bouazza

Other credits

CG Supervisor

Jehan Bouazza

Layout / Previs

Valentin Soulard and Xavier Zahra

Character Concept / Lead Character

Camille Gurruchaga

Concept Artist

Sebastien Hue and Dofresh

Environment Artist

Gregory Ginsburger, Yann Glica, and François Heysen

Rig

Beastmaker

Mocap

Mocaplab

Houdini Artist

Olivier Colchen, Maxime Delsart, and Thomas Van Maele

Crowd

Thomas Van Maele

Compositing

Fabien Delavous, Nicolas Derory, Pierre Herzig, and Anthony Lyant

Flame

Olivier Zibret

Animations

Cyril Cassaigne and Ornella Luzzi

3D Lead / Environment Lead

Yann Glica

Lighting Artist

Axel Alvarez, Jordan Lorcet, Yann Glica, François Heysen, and Victor Martinez

Promonews - 28th Feb 2022

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