Yafka creates new cinematic for National Geographic
Yafka, an Emmy nominated CG VFX company based in Athens has finished work on a 5 minute, fully CG cinematic about Fight-Book, one of medieval world’s most mysterious manuscripts.
Contained within the illustrated pages is a unique combination of bloody combat, war machines, weird inventions, and judicial duels.
Yafka were asked to bring to life the pages of the manuscript of unknown origin by Wild Dream Films UK for their factual production for National Geographic Channel.
Using LightWave, 3D studio MAX , Cinema 4D and After Effects, the studio created characters in combat, cryptic divers, and medieval war machines.
Each of the various subjects of the documentary required completely different elements for each environment. The studio used LightWave for most of the work, while some rendering and effects were completed using V-Ray and 3ds Max. Most of the character rigging and animation was done in Cinema 4D.
“One of the issues we had at the begging was to organize the wide pipeline which we used for the first time,” says senior 3D artist Andrew Helmis.
“After some trial and error we managed to easily communicate the work from software to software and get the best out of each application”
It took a team of six CG artists to complete the project in one and a half months.
“Our aim was to push the bar of the CGI quality that viewer expects to see on this type of documentaries” adds VFX supervisor Antonis Kotzias.
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Tags: 3d project, 3ds Max, CG, Cinema 4D, cinematic, Fight-Book, LightWave, National Geographic, short, VFX, Wild Dream Films, Yafka
