SPICE

"Spice" is the final group project developed by all the classmates during the last months of our Masterclass at Skyup Academy.

Taking inspiration from the celebrated film "Dune:Part One" the goal was to succeed, as quickly as possible and with the knowledge gained over the months, to achieve a visual quality that came as close as possible to the film's images.

The first essential step to get off to the best start with the project was pre-production.

During this phase, we studied and analyzed the reference shots to understand the main details: camera movements, lenses and cameras used during filming, length of shots and elements that make up each shot to recreate them in 3D.

Meanwhile, an entire department of artists focused on researching the references needed for the production compartment.In addition, guidelines were established that were respected by all artists throughout the entire production process.

Some pictures used as reference.

After few days of blocking we made the first real animatic trying to match as closely as possible the main volumes in all the shots.

Completed the first block of all scenes and making the first real animation, we came to the real heart of the thesis, the production.

Because of the amount of work we found ourselves doing, we had to try to manage time as best we could.

There were many models to be made and with them the various stages that follow, so task and role management was crucial to be able to achieve this result that you can see below. 

This is the final shot and is still being worked on.

Needless to say the myriad of problems we had to deal with, from modeling to various simulations that took a lot of time and resources. But we tried to solve them as we went along as best we could. 

Now much of the work is done in compositing in order to be able to get as close as possible to a result that is as realistic as possible.

Turntable and rig of one of the ornithopter models.

Team Members: 

Andrea Gianuzzo, Andrea Giordano, Arianna Del Dottore, Chiara Canzan, Daniela Rota, Davide Dainese, Davide De Sensi, Edoardo Celato, Eleonora Del Vecchio, Enea Pasquale Scirè, Ezoubair Warid, Fabio Gardin, Federico Del Sordo, Francesca Colantonio, Gabriele Alboretti, Giulia Bilanzuoli, Giulia Zanacca, Giuseppe Rodi, Luca Bertoncello, Marco Oliveri, Pasquale Fantetti, Riccardo Polin, Riccardo Zullato, Roberto Dessalvi, Sara Mangialardi, Sergio Rapisarda, Simone Garavaglia, Elizabeth Gianella Cubas Ballon, Tommaso Stragà, Valerio Barchi, Veronica Negro, Xhesi Beqiri