Sun VS Earth - Short Film VFX jasonstambo 2013-03-09 | Short film Visual Effects done in Softimage & NukeThe City (& Clouds shots) were camera projections from single hires pictures rendered with SI's HQ Viewport with transparency reflections and bump, and imported into Nuke (3D) for some elements, passes (and fixes) The sun is a displaced sphere with an elaborate procedural texture and ICE particle ejections (no fluids) coming off of it.Earth/moon shading was essentially done in Nuke based on an MR RenderTree counterpart, using antialiased OpenGL pixel shading outputs from XSI (Cloud/Land/Water diffuse/flat-shading/specular/matte passes) Matte painting backgrounds, the buildings destruction, the backdrop of each building allowing camera movement, and various elements done in Photoshop.Soundtrack is a joint composition by the electronic band Underworld and film score composer John Murphy for the movie Sunshine (used in this VFX demo and not in the actual short)
