Directors: Antoine Bardou-Jacquet, Ludovic Houplin, Herve de Crecy
Agency: Euro RSCG
Production: H5
Client: Citroen

Multiple shots are fully CG, extensive work on the live action and multiple effects, but obviously, the unfolding was the star of the project and took quite a bit to set up a rig that was flexible enough to accommodate the mocap.

For this project, I supervised the motion capture and directed the session, along with designing the motion capture rig and how it was handled by the animation. In this particular case, I used a 3-way rig that was extremely easy to reshape without breaking the mocap, so changing the length of the legs was not a problem.

As there was a need with every directorial decision of refitting the pieces and unfolding to the rig, sometimes the character would be bigger than higher.

The mocap session was in itself the most complicated motion capture I have ever done. The freezing conditions of the ice and its reflective nature were wreaking havoc on the setup, but thanks to the guys from AudioMotion, who set up the mocap cameras upside down (looking up instead of down), we managed to get it all.

But of course, the contact on the floor was almost lost completely, which made our lives pretty tough. This was a known evil, so it was down to the rig and the animators to get it all in shape by hand.

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