The Night Lights Part 1 - DreamWorks' Dragons: The Nine Realms
Part 1 of 'The Night Lights' was the first part of the season 4 finale. It's also the introduction of thermal vision, which is used throughout the series from here on. The look development and execution of that was a ton of fun! In hindsight, it should have been made a gizmo, but at the time we weren't sure we'd see it again! It needed to match the treatment from a pervious show in the How to Train Your Dragon franchise, so that was interesting to re-create.
plussing of shot, including introducing tilt-shift look, integration of FX elements, addition of lens flare; overall, the creation of a more cinematic and beautiful shot
look dev of dragon thermal vision to match existing canon, application of thermal vision throughout
integration of screen overlays, show static, animation transition of PIP elements in comp
integration of screen overlays, show static, animation transition of PIP elements in comp
integration of screen overlays, show static, animation of screen elements (play button, FF, R) created in comp