Project Overview
Harold and the Purple Crayon is an upcoming American fantasy film directed by Carlos Saldanha. I worked as a freelancer lighting artist under the animation studio, Bent Image Lab.
Project Process
1. This is a concept reference made by our concept team. Based on the reference, I can move on to the lighting phase in Nuke.
2. This is a still frame I did in Nuke. Before moving on to the animation part, I have to show the frame to our VFX supervisor to get his permission.
3. Our whole lighting team used the Pantheon Toolset, a 2D lighting tool, built by our VFX supervisor. Here is an image of how the tool works on 2D animation and makes it volumetric.
Lighting Pass by Noah Catan
Character design by Abby Snider
4. This is a mask built by the clean-up artist, which helps lighting artists select the area that can be used for a bezier tool.
5.The volumetric lighting was achieved by several layers of lighting sources and adding them together.
