So, finally the movie has been released overseas and it looks like its ok to show a few images on things that i worked on earlier this year. My role on this movie was to take existing designs which were both elaborate and vague in a number of areas, and build a palace in 3d that we could use as a set extension ( as well as props/ and the scorpion ). Special props go to ( in no order of importance except rob and gene cuz they helped sooo damn much, so they go first ) Robert Gennings, Gene Dreitser, Anthony DeChellis, Garfie Jones, Jordan Nieuwland, Sean O’Hara, Phil Jones, Kyle Burris, Alex Stefan, all the compositors at Technicolor|Vfx who helped with texturing the palace, and Brent George who allowed me to manage/organize pretty much the entire creation of the palace, and most props.

( if i forgot any names, don’t shoot! )

The night shots are matte paintings by Jordan Nieuwland using our provided model/s and lighting.

The majority of the modelling was done inside Maya and Modo, with Houdini doing all the procedural stuff like roofs, outer walls that travel over hills, bricks, etc. the entire assembly happened within Houdini as well, and it was rendered using Mantra.

here are a few more pictures ( the images are a bit wide, so youll have to scroll over to see the full thing. )












-mk