The walking dead - Kanzen - Rick's Goodbye

Client: Fox

Producer/Editor: Shogo Akagawa

Art director/designer: Victor Camacho

The Walking Dead says goodbye to his main actor after 9 seasons. We want to honor Rick Grimes for his hard work during this path.

The original idea was representing Rick by symbols that would represent him, such as the sheriff hat, the magnum, the axe...which are writting in the mindmap below. In the end we droppped all these ideas and we decided that after creating the moodboard, the idea of the road was a better icon for representing all these years. Therefore, we decided to include Rick leading his group to a safe place. In this road we put all the icons from the show, Negan bat on Sasha coffin, the tank that destroyed the jail wall in season 3 and so on...

Please watch The Walking Dead mindmap here

We decided represent the most iconic scenary of the show. For the lighting, we pick dawn as representation of a new beginning of the show.

This is a screenshot of the moodboard I built, and the references I thought it could represent the show.

Moodboard

Animatic

From the technical point of view, trees and grass were really high detailed. As well I used 8K textures for the floor and for the rest of the materials. Cinema 4d and my computer had a really hard time processing so much information. Redshift renderer did a great job calculating all the geometry pretty quickly. In this animatic, you can even see Cinema 4d struggling showing the almost final animation.

Breakdown compositing

This time I used Nuke. I love Nuke for compositing really heavy 3d rendering. It gives me the freedom to switch and compare quickly the different elements of the compositing.