Luke Dodd from Jellyfish demonstrates 'Planet Dinosaur'

Luke Dodd, VFX Supervisor at BAFTA Award Winning VFX House Jellyfish shows us how NUKE was used in the BBC follow up documentary to 'Walking With Dinosaurs'.

Luke explains how NUKE's 3D environment was invaluable when creating set extensions in the pre-historic landscapes for the show. These were vital to the look and feel of this iconic BBC documentary series which has earned them a BAFTA.

Thanks to fxguide who filmed this demo on our booth at IBC.

© Planet Dinosaur (BBC 1). Courtesy of Jellyfish.

Category:

Film & Animation

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• nuke
• nukex
• jellyfish pictures
• planet dinosaur
• Nuke (software)
• compositing
• vfx
• shake
• Shake (software)
• Visual Effects
• fusion
• the foundry

[MaikForte]

Was that dust from Action Essentials?

[TheFoundryChannel]

Hello @MaikForte I asked Luke and I'm afraid they came from Jellyfish's library so he's not sure. Sorry!

[DanielManahan]

did you use 3ds max at all in the process for creating 3d models?

[TheFoundryChannel]

Hello @DanielManahan. We spoke to Luke and here's his response: "All modeling, rigging and animation was done in soft. We started rendering using max and brazil but moved back to soft and Arnold after the first four sequences to get quicker results." Hope it helps.

[MaikForte]

@TheFoundryChannel Thanks anyway! =) Keep up the good job! Please make more of this.

[vfxrahul]

Just wondering how those deformations were done for ferns assets, was it bicubics?

[TheChriswk]

combover hairdos are groovy.

[trackerweb]

The files workflow beetween CG and COMP was FBX and EXR?

10 Compers... i think that all done sequences, using what for Desktop?

Thanks TheFoundry, nice video.

[k3anima]

that blood idea is freaking brilliant no need for real flow and all that rendering

[roulamin]

@EDUNEWES thanks :) i work with max, is xsi better than max ?

[EDUNEWES]

I love it !

This guys are the best

[EDUNEWES]

@roulamin Hi, "soft" is Softimage, well-known XSI here in Brazil :) all the best!