Freerunning through a Mandelbox was the immediate thing on my mind when I saw my first 3D fractal. A Fractal Parkour. This is a proof of concept film, showcasing the possibilities of using Mandelbulb3D as a tool for creating interesting environments, and exploring techniques of combining greenscreen footage with a tool many deem unfit for advanced VFX work. The runners are Katie McDonnell and Pedro Salgado, with whom this footage was shot for a different project. (as VFX supervisor on this shoot, I helped design the shots using animatics) Shot and rendered in 50FPS

Background

Somewhere in 2015, I was the VFX supervisor on a shoot for a commercial starring three professional freerunners. I helped design the shots in the animatic stage (this is sort of a moving storyboard where very basic animation techniques are used to block the shots), and the entire commercial was shot in one of the largest indoor green-screen studio in the Netherlands.
I can't disclose the company we made the commercial for, but the actual commercial requested that we created the environment in 3D, but not fractal.

In 2017 I asked the production if I was allowed to 'remix' the greenscreen footage, and they obliged. So I re-edited the shots, and created environments in Mandelbulb3D.
The very first time I saw a Mandelbulb I was imagining a girl freerunning through the infinite structures, and this is to date the closest thing that I've been able to create.
I wish this could be a longer piece, with a better narrative, but unfortunately, for now that would be too time consuming.

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{Titel: Mandelrun}