Creating a fantastic world of freaks and vampires that run a traveling circus that is secretly a neutral ground between two warring tribes of vampires is no small feat, and the necessary effects to pull it off landed at Rhythm & Hues.
Tools consisted of usual R&H proprietary software: Rhythm for character animation and, in terms of choreography and the renderer, a package similar to Houdini. A lot of the atmospherics, in fact, were done in Houdini.
As usual, work was split between L.A. and India, where they are fully integrated into the pipeline and their crew shares digital assets and they video conference daily. “India supplies everything from animators to lighters to compositors. We ship all things in our pipeline back and forth. Depending on our needs, not everything will get done in India. Alexander Ribs’ [Orlando Jones] dancing shots were done by the animators in India and they videotaped themselves doing the dancing to get the hip movements right.”
