THE BOXTROLLS

Crowd Lead @ LAIKA -- Given that this was a Laika stop-motion movie, the bar for the crowd work on The Boxtrolls was extremely high. As well as shot work in Massive, I created a crowd pipeline in Python, which allowed the crowds to be viewed efficiently, and rendered in Katana. To ensure that data could be viewed and manipulated in a post-sim stage with ease, I created a Python data structure which could read and write Massive's datatypes. This allowed a number of tools to be developed by myself and the Animation Lead far easier than was previously capable. I also worked with the Animation Lead to prepare for mocap shoots and participated in acting for a number of mocap shoots.