This one was a really nice project. Allthough in the end it became very tight due to very limited cpu power but it was a great team doing a great job. The results were more than convincing for the customer.

My task for example were the compositing supervision and consulting, modelling and texturing a lot of stuff (palms, grass, stones, mics (which I gave a fantastic customizable setup for bending), plants, lights, table, tablecloths, the speaker table etc.) and simulating it all. Various scripts I did also program to place the stones and grass in the desert without big efforts.

Heat effect Compositing Test

Palm dynamic setup

Palm with dynamic setup shaded

The palm tree has a nice dynamic skeleton, particle combination setup which will be released as tutorial in time. I think it's a really cool technique everybody should know about.

Here are some WIP screens. Things I modeled or simulated.