Rise did a lot of VFX and visual effects studio work at the beginning and in some scenes at the end with the "book thief": At the beginning, the camera flies through a cloud formation and then lands in a moving train. At the end of the film, Rise made houses explode. Rise has been using Houdini in its pipeline since the Hollywood production "Cloud Atlas" (see also DP issue 02/13) in 2012. Oliver Schulz was responsible for the cloud scene prologue. DP: What tips do you have for artists to create perfect cumulus clouds? Oliver Schulz: Many factors are decisive for the right look. Firstly, of course, the shape itself: With cumulus clouds, a basic approach with the distribution of small spheres on a base mesh is certainly not wrong. But the decisive criterion here is the variance in the structure: you should not have uniform edges and create many differently opaque parts. If artists look closely at such clouds, they will realise how many different parts a single cloud contains. The other ...
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