Doug Purvur worked on the collaborative film project Psst!3 and found himself with an idea and material capable of supporting a full short-film piece. Using his expersie in CINEMA4D and After Effects, he built the surreal “Omar and his Skyhook”, which was included in last month’s LA Shorts Film Festival. He sits down with Meleah Maynard of CGSociety to discuss it.
The most challenging fish to make was the one Omar turns into at the end of the film, Purver says, because he started with a very basic model and added a lot of small details to connect the fish to Omar and the feathers on his helmet. “I used C4D’s Hair module to add very thin hairs streaming from the tips of the fish’s wings and coming from under his chin and around his wings where they meet his head,” he explains.
