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FEATURE

Into Battle

FEATURE

Into Battle

“The shoot took place on a hill in
Atlanta with a partial set consisting
of the spire and the hole going down
into the mineshaft,” explains Method
Studios associate VFX supervisor Todd
Perry. “It was a hybrid of different
parts of Africa. The cliff face was
based on a real place called Table
Mountain and the model was built
from photogrammetry in Maya.” An
Angora crater was also used as a point
of reference.

Transforming aTlanTa inTo africa

LogisticaL issues prevented principaL photography taking pLace in africa,
where the fictionaL country of wakanda is situated

“The layout was taken into

Houdini where we ran an erosion

procedure to get finer detail on the

surfaces,” remarks Perry. “Foliage was

distributed by using displacement

maps. It was combined with slope

values so when things got too steep

there was less foliage. In Houdini we

culled the environment based on

the position of the camera. It only

calculated what was within the camera

view with some buffer on either side.”

B-reel was

referenced by

animators to create

fight vignettes

in the midground

that showcase the

different fighting

styles of the

Wakandan tribes

The rhinos of the

Border Tribe each

have a different

structure, size,

colouring and

horn design