Editor's note: This post is part of our weekly In the NVIDIA Studio series, which celebrates featured artists, offers creative tips and tricks, and demonstrates how NVIDIA Studio technology accelerates creative workflows.
The gripping sci-fi comic Huxley was brought to life in an action-packed 3D trailer full of excitement and intrigue this week In the NVIDIA Studio.
3D artist, concept designer and storyteller Ben Mauro has contributed to some of the world's biggest entertainment franchises. He's worked on movies like Elysium, Valerian and Metal Gear Solid, as well as video games such as Halo Infinite and Call of Duty: Black Ops III.
Mauro has met many inspirational artists throughout his storied career, and he collaborated with a few of them to bring Huxley to life. He called the 3D trailer a year's worth of work, worth every minute spent - following his decade-long process of creating the comic itself.
Huxley introduces a vibrant, futuristic world. In Mauro's fantastical, fictional world, two post-apocalyptic scavengers stumble upon a forgotten treasure map in the form of an ancient sentient robot, finding themselves amidst a mystery of galactic scale.
In designing Huxley the comic, Mauro worked old-school magic with a pad and pencil, sketching characters and environments before importing visuals into Adobe Photoshop. His NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 GPU provided fast performance and AI features to speed up his creative workflow.
Early concept art of Huxley. What has become of me? it thought. The artist used Photoshop's Artboards to quickly view reference artwork for inspiration, as well as Image Size to preserve critical details - both features accelerated by his GPU. To finish up the comic, Mauro turned to Blender software to create mockups and block out scenes with the intention of later converting back to 3D from 2D.
Camera shots were matched in Blender. With 3D trailer production in progress, matte painter and environment artist Steve Cormann used Mauro's Blender models as a convenient starting point, virtually a one-to-one match to the desired 3D outcome.
Advanced modeling in ZBrush. Cormann, who specializes in Autodesk 3ds Max software, applied advanced modeling techniques in building the scene. 3ds Max has a GPU-accelerated viewport that guarantees fast and interactive 3D modeling. It also lets artists choose their preferred 3D renderer - which in Cormann's case is Maxon's Redshift, where combining GPU acceleration and AI-powered OptiX denoising resulted in lightning-fast final-frame rendering.
Applying textures in Adobe Substance 3D Painter. This proved useful as Cormann exported scenes into Adobe Substance 3D Painter to apply various textures and colors. RTX-accelerated light- and ambient-occlusion features baked and optimized assets within the scenes in mere seconds, giving Cormann the option to experiment with different visual aesthetics quickly and easily.
All of the hero characters were textured from scratch by artist Antonio Esparza and team. Enter more of Mauro's collaborators: lead character artist Antonio Esparza and his team, who spent significant time in 3ds Max to refine individual scenes and generate the staggering number of hero characters. This included uniquely texturing each of the characters and props. Esparza said his GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER GPU allowed him to modify characters and export renders dramatically faster than his previous hardware.
Esparza joked that before his hardware upgrade, Most of the last hours of the day, it was me here, you know, like, waiting. Director Sava ivkovi would say to Esparza, Turn the lights off Antonio, we don't want to see that progress bar.
Meanwhile, ivkovi turned his focus to lighting in 3ds Max. His trusty GeForce RTX 2080 Ti GPU enabled RTX-accelerated AI denoising with Maxon's Redshift, resulting in photorealistic visuals while remaining highly interactive. This let the director tweak and modify scenes freely and easily.
City scenes were brought to life using Anima, a simple crowd-simulation software with off-the-shelf character assets. With renders and textures in a good place, rigging and modeling artist Lucas Salmon began building meshes and rigging in 3ds Max to prepare for animation. Motion capture work was then outsourced to the well-regarded Belgrade-based studio, Take One. With 54 Vicon cameras and one of the biggest capture stages in Europe, it's no surprise the animation quality in Huxley is world class.
Visual effects were added in Adobe After Effects. ivkovi then deployed Adobe After Effects to composite the piece. Roughly 90% of the visual effects (VFX) were accomplished with built-in tools, stock footage and various plugins. Key 3D VFX such as ship smoke trails were simulated in Blender and then added in comp. The ability to move between multiple apps quickly is a testament to the power of the RTX GPU, ivkovi said.
I love the RTX 3090 GPU for the extra VRAM, especially for increasingly bigger scenes where I want everything to look really nice and have quality texture sizes, he said.
Photorealistic details create an immersive experience for the trailer's viewers. Satisfied with the trailer, Mauro reflected on artistry. As creatives, if we don't see the film, game, or universe we want to experience in our entertainment, we're in the position to create it with our hard-earned skills. I feel this is our duty as artists and creators to leave behind more imagined worlds than existed before we got there, to inspire the world and the next generation of artists/creators to push things even further than we did. he said.
Concept designer and storyteller Ben Mauro. Access Mauro's impressive portfolio on his website.
Huxley the movie is in development. Huxley is an entire world rich in history and intrigue, curre
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