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Brushy Strokes of Lightning

Nov. 3rd, 2025
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Animation has officially wrapped! The team is getting into the nitty gritty of simulating swarms of creatures, energy lightning effects. New backgrounds are being painted and the ending of the film is taking shape. We're still far from being finished though!

Rik Schutte
Rik Schutte Animator

This week we wrapped animation for Singularity, which means all shots have the main character critter animated, and the most prominent background characters as well. I've worked on the last shot of the film, where we get introduced to a 'new' character. Here you see the blocking and polish pass of the same shot.

010_0040: Polish Pass
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010_0040: Polish Pass

010_0040: Blocking pass
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010_0040: Blocking pass

Vivien Lulkowski
Vivien Lulkowski Art Director

This week I kept working on One's transformation. The updates are best viewed in sequence in the video Andy made with the new lighting :)

update to stage 4
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update to stage 4

update to stage 3
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update to stage 3

Update to stage 1
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Update to stage 1

Update to stage 2
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Update to stage 2

update lava planet
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update lava planet

Habitable planet
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Habitable planet

Andy Goralczyk
Andy Goralczyk Director
Vivien Lulkowski
Rik Schutte
Simon Thommes

I worked on many things: More re-lighting the shots. Creating new space backgrounds to replace the temp ones. The main appearance of the Black hole now has a hand painted brush stroke effect. I redid some of the shot staging of 050_contact and the far-away background creatures are represented as little brush stroke critters.

100_blue - lighting 002
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100_blue - lighting 002

090_ignite lighting 002
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090_ignite lighting 002

080_fallback - Lighting 001
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080_fallback - Lighting 001

060_dance - Lighting 005
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060_dance - Lighting 005

050_contact - Lighting 005
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050_contact - Lighting 005

040_edge - Lighting 005
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040_edge - Lighting 005

030_panic - Lighting 005
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030_panic - Lighting 005

020_ice - Lighting 005
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020_ice - Lighting 005

Simon Thommes
Simon Thommes Technical Artist

This week I could fully focus my energy on the tendril energy FX that the creatures connect to. This will continue still in the coming weeks, but now we have a good base setup to work with and put it in all the shots.

Tendril Energy FX - V5
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Tendril Energy FX - V5

Tendril Energy FX - V4
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Tendril Energy FX - V4

Tendril Energy FX - V3
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Tendril Energy FX - V3

Tendril Energy FX - V2
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Tendril Energy FX - V2

Tendril Energy FX - V1
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Tendril Energy FX - V1

Tendril Energy FX
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Tendril Energy FX


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