Great White Shark chase

[Chris Rosewarne]

Hi everyone! Been a while since I posted anything due to work commitments but thanks to many late nights I've finished another machine!

I saw this amazing footage of a simple underwater camera being attacked by a great white so I wanted to create a drone sub that would attract sharks but rather than passively get bitten it would speed off whilst keeping them close enough for some awesome predatory shark footage, so I designed something that housed twin impellers, an underwater HD camera and various sensory GPS equipment - to boil it down, I wanted to create visuals of a cool sub getting chased by a great white!

It was modelled in Sketchup and brought into KS for some sweet renders, I did a gloss red version and suddenly it made me want to slap some Akira bike stickers on it in KS, but I went for a gloss orange with dark matte grey for the product version. I searched for photo ref of great whites and imported these to use as backplates in KS, I would find and adjust an HDRI to match the lighting to the photo, its great being able to edit the HDRI and add lights in KS5, made for much less re-lighting work in Photoshop! Loving Clown Pass renders too!!!!! The render was then taken into PS, the plate was extend with many elements added and removed, painted out/in and cropped to create that cinematic wide screen look. This is how I go about producing visuals on a film when I use KS.

Unlike previous posts which were all about the model and render in all its glorious detail, these were more about the "shot", but its interesting to see how easily you can comp in a  KS render what ever the brief....

Hope you like them

Chris

[TpwUK]

Amazing work again Chris, for me the best 'shot' has to be Shark-2.5, the action from the still is spot on to me mate !!

Martin

[edwardo]

Some of the best concept work i'v seen. I love your train of thought, which feeds into the design of the vehicle and also the final 'shots' - it keeps it all very cohesive and 'believable'.

Really nice work
Ed

[Esben Oxholm]

Really nice comps! I like the look of them.
Very inspiring work.

[Josh3D]

Love both versions and great to hear a little more about your process Chris!

[Chris Rosewarne]

Thanks guys, there will be more tech and glorious detail in the next one - yes it's started already so thanks for your encouraging words!

Chris

[feher]

These are fantastic !!!!!
Great modeling great presentation.
It's a keeper in my book
Tim