The TEDx Sydney 2018 animation explore this year’s topic of Humankind by taking us through museum galleries, where our present and potential future collide with the past. Modern subjects are mixed with classical forms, and the suspended animation of these sculptures kindles poignant evaluation of our current place within humanity’s short timeline. Stills / GIFs / Process and more: https://www.behance.net/gallery/67043195/TEDx-Sydney-2018-Main-Titles-Event-Package Stash.tv: https://bit.ly/2m98WVr // Director's Notes: https://bit.ly/2ubBp17 Client: TEDx Sydney Direction: Scott Geersen Layout, Cinematography: Substance Edit: Joe Morris Look Dev / Shading / Lighting: Rich Nosworthy, Rory McLean, Jeff Briant, Ezequiel Grand, Scott Geersen Additional Sculpts: Ezequiel Grand, Rich Nosworthy Original Music & Sound Design : CypherAudio / John Black & Tobias Norberg Special Thanks: Remo Giuffré // Renee Gangemi // Jonathan Key @ Studio 3:AM As a silver partner, it was an honour for Substance to contribute to yet another record-breaking event with opening titles, session IDs, online stings, speaker announcements, and digital signage, across formats from 2k-9k wide (5 screen) presentations.

One of my favourite shots I created for TedxSydney 2018. This was done in C4D and Redshift. The two characters were from Daz3d which were then taken into zbrush, to recreate as shattered shells via live boolean. A lot of subtle light layers and volumetrics combined to make the final look. . Sound Design: Cypher Audio Full Titles here https://vimeo.com/276142429 . Stills and more: behance.net/gallery/67043195/TEDx-Sydney-2018-Main-Titles-Event-Package Client: TEDx Sydney Direction: Scott Geersen Layout, Cinematography: Substance Edit: Joe Morris Look Dev / Shading / Lighting: Rich Nosworthy, Rory McLean, Jeff Briant, Ezequiel Grand, Scott Geersen Additional Sculpts: Ezequiel Grand, Rich Nosworthy Original Music & Sound Design : CypherAudio / John Black & Tobias Norberg

Taking Scott's block out for the scene, I imported the arm mesh into houdini. The initial lattice used for blocking was done using Merk Vilson's Trypogen plugin, and although we did try out some alternative approaches to generating it in houdini, we prefered the look of Scott's original model. Taking that I set up some start and end point groups using bounding regions to define the start and end points and use houdini's closest point sop to generate the veins that follow through the mesh. Exporting that resulting set of splines back into c4d as an alembic, I then used simple mograph cloners to clone small incandescent bulbs down the length of those veins. The veins themselves took a bit of time to load into redshift but used RS proxy's to speed it up again for lookdev. Finally we used a translucent material with some subtle SSS for the main arm lattice, a simple SSS shader for the veins and just an incandescent shader for the leds. The Marble arm was fairly simple materials with multiscattering. All rendered within Redshift (C4D). Sound design: Cypher Audio Full Titles here https://vimeo.com/276142429 . Stills and more: behance.net/gallery/67043195/TEDx-Sydney-2018-Main-Titles-Event-Package Client: TEDx Sydney Direction: Scott Geersen Layout, Cinematography: Substance Edit: Joe Morris Look Dev / Shading / Lighting: Rich Nosworthy, Rory McLean, Jeff Briant, Ezequiel Grand, Scott Geersen Additional Sculpts: Ezequiel Grand, Rich Nosworthy Original Music & Sound Design : CypherAudio / John Black & Tobias Norberg

Lighting / Shader turntable. Octane & C4D Full Titles here vimeo.com/276142429 . Stills and more: behance.net/gallery/67043195/TEDx-Sydney-2018-Main-Titles-Event-Package Client: TEDx Sydney Direction: Scott Geersen Layout, Cinematography: Substance Edit: Joe Morris Look Dev / Shading / Lighting: Rich Nosworthy, Rory McLean, Jeff Briant, Ezequiel Grand, Scott Geersen Additional Sculpts: Ezequiel Grand, Rich Nosworthy Original Music & Sound Design : CypherAudio / John Black & Tobias Norberg