First cinematic teaser for the ‘Sharkman’ project. Done in Unreal Engine 5, using the underwater blueprint from Karim Abou Shousha. Ocean Animals MEGA Pack from Etherion Designs, available from the Unreal Marketplace.
Custom rocks scanned with a DJI Mini Pro 3 around the Wellington South Coast, NZ and processed with Reality Capture. Digi double created with Reallusion Character Creator 4 and Headshot 2.0, Blender and ZBrush. Cascadeur for posing and animation and Ableton for sound design.
From ‘Sharkman’ director Sergio Ayrosa, DMP and Environments Lead at Weta FX and volunteer community manager for Epic Games Unreal Commnunity in Wellington:
“Coming from a VFX background, the ability to do lookdev, layout and animation on a fully lit scene, all in real time, is just pure fun.
As a writer/director, it is also a great tool for story and character development and you end up with a playable environment you can keep iterating on. Or just cruising around.
Highly inspired by freediving around Wellington, New Zealand, ‘Sharkman’ is currently being developed as a short film under the _rufcut label. Blending live action and CGI, is a body horror about a real estate business man who falls under a curse, after starting to develop a resort on sacred ancestral land, and is forever bound to the ocean.”
