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10 Cloverfield Lane

Hey all! Long time no post. I’ve been sort of dormant lately, the last couple of years have been pretty busy with freelance work and starting a new studio job.

I wanted to share with everyone some of my work on 10 Cloverfield Lane. Figured I would just start a new thread dedicated to the project. It was a huge honor to be contacted by Bad Robot, and to work with Dan Trachtenberg on the film! I was on board early on and had the pleasure to contribute ideas for a little over a year. I’ll be posting more renders as I get them together (lots of files to go through!).

First post, these were some of the initial head studies. Playing with translucency, and aquatic themes.

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Here are some initial motion studies and sketches that kicked the project off early on.

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I need to get some more renders of this guy, it was challenging early on to get this translucent look. Using ZBrush’s BPR and some compositing techniques in Photoshop made it much easier!

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This guy was pretty fun, and very different from the initial ideas we started with. It was meant to be more animalistic, of course pulling from the worms in Peter Jackson’s Kong.

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I really loved this one, he’s still my favorite. I wanted to see the black head and neck pull back to reveal the leech like mouth. Again using ZBrush with BPR to get these renders done, combining matcaps and polypaint.

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Some more renders of my favorite! These were done with Keyshot, once I got my hands on the Bridge, it made production so much cleaner for me to present that studio lighting. Which helped push some ideas through, and provided clean reference for discussions.

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So, this was a drastic change later on. Wanting to explore the idea that these guys are sentient, less creature. I have a bunch more of this guy I will post later once I dig them up! He was a fun challenge for sure.

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Looking good Kurt! Keep it up!

I like it very much.

Thanks @mutte696 and @rulonis! And thanks Pixologic for the top row! Made my day big time! I’ll post some more renders as I dig them up :slight_smile: and try to show more process.

Great stuff here congratulations on the top row

awesome stuffs here, congrats on the toprow!

Fantastic stuff Kurt! I love the translucency and viscosity of all these creatures.

very cool stuff kurt. congrats on a job well done and toprow.

-r

The movie’s intense! The design and execution of the monster are just awesome!

…for my future nightmares! :wink:

Thank you all for the kind words! I will get some more renders together when I have time. I really appreciate all the awesome feedback!

fantastic man… its artistic