I was very fortunate to had an opportunity to work on such big, difficult and important project as
Audience of that event was three billion people.
The goal of our team was to make a visual presentation, which combines Russian alphabet letters into seamless story, presenting Russia with its most famous imagery, inventions, people.
I have worked on several shots, and luckily, some of them were 3d environments. All these shots were assembled, lit, and rendered in Vue.
E-on software, Vue`s publisher, has interviewed me about this project.
The first scene presents one of the greatest, the world-famous Russian writer Alexander Pushkin, and his fairy tale "Ruslan and Ludmila".
The most difficult task was to match the final result and the concept, created by art director. I was required to reproduce the mood, lightning, color. I sculpted trees in Zbrush first, and then it took me around three days to create the final composition.
Achieving final result took about three weeks, as we were searching the right balance between stylized and photoreal look for this shot. During this period of time, we created several versions of ecosystems, lighting, etc.
Scene consists of many ecosystems types, several species of moss, flowers, stones. The girl and cat were filmed in pavilion and comped into the shot.
The mattepaint was made by Olga Antonenko.
The second scene presents Kazimierz Malewicz, russian painter.
It was decided to place Matrioshka into the shot - another famous Russian imagery.
The mattepaint was made by Olga Antonenko.
Third scene presents another world-famous Russian writer - Anton Chekhov, and his story "Cherry Garden".
It was decided to give a modern look to this shot, so this is simple white room with cherry trees, decorated by flower bed in Japan style. The girl was filmed in pavilion and comped into the shot.
3d scene was done in 3dsmax, then the geometry and camera were passed into Vue. Flower bed was created using ecosystems in Vue.
screenshots / sketches / shots
Director: Anton Nenashev
Art-direction: Anton Nenashev, Alex Mikhaylov
CG Supervisor: Andrew Zelenin
3d Environment artist, Lighting, Compositing : Roman Senko
Art-direction: Anton Nenashev, Alex Mikhaylov
CG Supervisor: Andrew Zelenin
3d Environment artist, Lighting, Compositing : Roman Senko
