“THE DEEP ABOVE – First Hunt” by Wolff
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- THE DEEP ABOVE - First Hunt
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- Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
- Animationsinstitut
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A vast ocean at the firmament. Humans suffering in the darkness underneath, longing for the warm light of the Lumathans – giant sea creatures worshiped as gods and the only light source in the world. Will the explorer SINH manage to reach the ocean and steal the Lumathan’s light?
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For The Deep Above, we built a full USD pipeline from scratch, enabling flexible USD layer composition and efficient asset reuse. We captured base character animations with the OptiTrack motion capture system and integrated custom Maya USD skeleton caches. We developed a sequence-based Solaris workflow, utilising multiple renderers via hydra.
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