Compositing done in Nuke

Animated in Blender, rendered in Cycles

Fire simulations created in EmberGen

Sunny is an upcoming feature film created by Silke Engler. I worked on this project as a subcontractor for Third Beacon Studios from November 2023 to March 2024. I worked on many of the aurora effects as well as the atmospheric debris simulations, as well as several other shots.

This project was my first real experience working with fluid simulations, and much time was spent learning how to effectively iterate on simulation parameters to acheive the client's desired look. The scale of the effects' subjects was also a challenge to deal with, both in terms of setting up the scale of the scenes and in compositing the effects to look appropriately far away.