This was our Baking Love project, where we were tasked with creating a photoreal short film. We decided to create a love story between two cake toppers. This project consisted of 12 3D artists working in a production-ready pipeline; tracking, animating, modelling, texturing, lighting, and rendering. Our 3D team was assisted by art directors and producers who were on top of the whole project throughout, as well as 7 2D artists comping the renders that we supplied.
My role in this project was on-set supervisor, tracking, layout, lighting, and modelling. My main role was to create the two cakes that the characters would be standing on. This was tricky because I had to make sure the cakes had enough detail for the macro shots and shallow depth of field that we had planned to use.
This project ended up winning Best VFX at the Art Film Awards in January. This reflects all the hard work each and every team member put into the project and how well the producers and directors fulfilled their roles.
