TV Series
Ted - Season 1
Framestore
Framestore’s Melbourne studio reunited with Seth Macfarlane on tv series Ted, streaming exclusively on Peacock. VFX Supervisor Glenn Melenhorst led the Melbourne team in reinventing Ted for the streaming series, developing an in-house tool utilising USD, which allowed the artists to generate and render the hair procedurally at render time. In addition to re-building Ted, the team also took on the task of de-aging him - with the series set 20 years before the films, this Ted is much newer bear, needing plush fur and less of the wear and tear seen in the films. They also had to develop a way for him to move and run, keeping pace with his friends and family that are much taller. As a character, Ted has a distinct set of expressions, so when re-building him the team took care to ensure his face would move in a similar way as to previous incarnations. For example, having static eyes meant they had to translate complex eye expression details into the way the head angle and brows work together, to not only have the correct 'eye line' but also to deliver an engaging performance.
Crew
VFX Supervisor: Glenn Melenhorst
Software
Maya, Zbrush, Yeti, Houdini, Vray, Substance, Nuke, RV, 3dequalizer