Dan Racusin

Danamation Studios is currently working on a short music video from the upcoming feature film Bongee Bear and the Kingdom of Rhythm . We are proud of the designs our team developed and specially with how the final renders are turning out. Animation for the video is still in production with about 50% of the work completed. We are continuing to push the limits of the characters performance and the overall direction of the video. The video is expected for release until May of 2009. But expect an exciting except from the video soon! Below is a short break down of our compositing process. To acheive the final look of the video we have broken down the image into several different passes. Each shot will be rendered out with an occlusion pass, a color pass, a depth pass and a shadow pass. Here is an example of what the ccclusion pass looks like. This pass gives us more control over the softer refractive shadows in the scene. This is a composite of the interior without an occlusion...