Notes from the render farm.
How the work gets made: shaders, lookdev, process and the occasional spreadsheet. Written by the people who did it.
Shaders
Combing fur with a cursor
How the pink knot on our home page grows 44 layers of hair and lets you brush it the wrong way.
Lookdev
Glass that bends the room
Why the glass capsules only look like glass once there's something solid behind them.
Lookdev
Liquid chrome needs a horizon
A chrome blob reflects the world. If the world is grey, so is the chrome.
Process
A launch film from one model
How the Kiva One film, 40 stills and a web turntable came from the same CG case.
Identity
Wayfinding people remember
Guests forget room numbers. They remember which side of the building they slept on.
Motion
The whip pan, explained
The cuts in our reel blur sideways like a camera being yanked. Here's the whole trick.