adidas Messi - Fast Or Fail

Media.Monks was responsible for the campaign’s promo film, which combines live-action with extensive VFX to show Messi himself taking it up against an army of 3D opponents in a fully CG stadium. As the CGI supervisor we needed to find simple and effective solutions to create a massive stadium filled with animated characters. After some R&D we found out that with a X-box kinect we could capture a lot of motion capture data which we imported into Houdini where we filled up the stadium. The players on the field were all hand animated. As an artist I took on the task to do the lighting and shading for all the scenes.