Castle / “Linchpin”
Studio: Encore Hollywood
Role: Senior CG Generalist
Disciplines
Lead Artist
Look Dev
Lighting & Rendering
Software
3dsmax
V-Ray
Frost
“This cant look fake”
For the season 4 finale of Castle we were tasked with a cliffhanger. The main characters are pushed over a dock into the water.
“Due to the overbearing Actors Guild we couldn’t drowned the cast, pfft!”
The scene required a lot of attention. First we were going to be very close to the Police Interceptor. So any damages and/or scuffs needed to be added on to the 3d model. Next was how to make a blue car look good underwater. The answers were bubbles…lot and lot of bubbles.
![mikeoakley_Header_Castle_Jump[1].png](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d3437eba68c4485f51eb09/a2760849-6be2-4959-9f8f-32eafa3351f4/mikeoakley_Header_Castle_Jump%5B1%5D.png)
![mikeoakley_Header_Castle_Bubbles[1].png](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d3437eba68c4485f51eb09/0a65a885-bf58-47eb-b66a-9472c78003c4/mikeoakley_Header_Castle_Bubbles%5B1%5D.png)
![headerimages_0003_Castle[1].png](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/66d3437eba68c4485f51eb09/e3a29c0f-dd7b-4ec6-b3e6-5ce723825e1c/headerimages_0003_Castle%5B1%5D.png)
“Just keep compositing”
The bubbles were created using both Real Flow, Thinking Particles and Basic 3dsMax Particles. All together comp’d in Nuke.
Each scene involved around 5 passes of bubbles: Tiny, medium, large, truck gap, window and frame leaks .