Jessica Timczyk – Looking Outwards 05

The above image is a still from the Disney movie Moana, showing the large rendered boats that the artist worked on in the background.

Pedro Conti is a Brazilian 3D computer graphics artist, with one of his recent and most interesting project being a 3D graphics artist on Disney’s Moana movie in 2016. He utilized 3D computer graphics to create many backgrounds, landscapes and characters in the movie. Specifically looking at the Kakamora barges he helped to create in one of the scenes of the movie, the project is so impressive due to the shear number of objects that cover the structure and how many shots (140) were needed for the sequence.

The image shows a close up shot of the rendered boats prior to being placed in the scene.

The artist utilized the program XGen, which is a geometry instancer, to populate the boat with all of the objects on it. While the artist had to follow the artistic direction of the movie, the artist’s vision is manifested in how and where different items are  placed on the boat.

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