Hybride and Ubisoft Digital Arts collaborated on the terrifying Predator Hounds in the new ‘Predators’ movie, creating the giant animals with a variety of tools and compositing them into live footage for the chase scenes. They discuss the project on an interview at AWN.
“These are like Hell Hounds: very mean and nasty, so, of course, they were built and textured in CG and we had to integrate them into the plates of the live shooting,” explains Philippe Théroux , lead CG supervisor for Hybride. “Sometimes the guns on their shoulders were animated in CG; the blade of the Predator was sometimes CG.” In all there were 470 shots.
via Letting the Predator Hounds Loose | AWN | Animation World Network.
