Thelma the Unicorn (2024)

Netflix animated movie
Directors: Jared Hess, Lynn Wang
IMDB

Release date: 17th May 2024

I worked during 2 years on this production at Mikros Animation, Montreal, Canada

– 8 months as junior Set surfacing artist
– 1 year and 4 months as junior Lighting and Compositing artist

Set surfacing

Softwares: Maya, Mari, Arnold, Katana

I worked on uvs, texturing and surfacing of about 100+ objects :

Lighting

Softwares: Katana, Arnold

– The light rig for the set was made by others artists an dI mainly had to modify it slightly and create the lighting for the characters
– I still had the opportunity to do the entire light rig on the sequence of the river and on the shot of the castle

Compositing

Software: Nuke

– I developed the look of the compositing for 2 entire sequences
– Master shots: I did the first compositing of the shots from this angle intended to be copied later to child shots with the same angle of camera
– Unique shots: there are no others shots in the same environment/angle, I did the first (and unique) compositing on them
– Child shots: these were more easiest shots with the base of the compositing is in place in a master shot and I had to match my shot with it

I also helped Image Finaling department (to fix some isues on final shots like noise, aliazing, flickering, sizzlings, edging, fix high and low values…) for the two first sequences delivery and during 1 month at the end of the production.

Official trailer: