Moscow Central Circle

We always start with sketches, making them briefly and detailed. When the plain and coherent story is finally built and can be read through our sketches we can move further to the next steps.

We’ve created 3d scenes based on approved concepts. The scenes are very basic at first, but later they become precisely elaborated, considering all of the tiny details that can be seen in frame.

After all the scenes are done, we are starting the animation phase - we set our cameras and animate the geometry in frame. As a result we get the foundation for the future reel.

While working on the previous stages, we also created maps design and additional graphic elements, which helped us to provide visually full and detailed image of the movie. Here are some examples below.

Another stage that we worked in parallel with the other production steps was creating FX. Here we mostly focused on making the locomotive steam.

When all the maps and HUDs are done and approved, we can proceed to animation and render. But before that we need to integrate these elements into our 3d scenes.

After the animatic is finalised we go on to production of final styleframes,
the keyframes of the movie, which state the stylistics and serve as a guide for the assembly of the whole project.

Apart from сreating full CG scenes we also needed to integrate CG objects into shooting material. To complete this task we had to track the footage and create a geometry precisely replicating the elements of real action material.