Abracadabra

Abracadabra

Abracadabra is the short-film I did in my final year at my school. It's the story of a little girl who, bored, decides to perform a magic ritual on her cat plush. However, it does not exactly works as expected... 

Movie Poster

Decor breakdown

Modeling / wireframe / diffuse / spec / final

Shot Breakdown

Beauty Shot / Lighting / Adjustments / Magic FX / Final Adjustments 

Nuke Tree

Exemple of a nuke tree for one of the shots

Magic FX

I did both magic FX with Houdini.

For the first one, I started with particles following a spiral and then converted it in volume. I added glowing particles on top for the 'glitter'.

For the second one, the process is the same except the particles are following the trajectory of the magic wand.

Characters

Wendy is a curious and mischevious little girl, she loves cats and dinosaurs.

Bambou is her favorite cat plush that became a real cat.