CARS 3
My primary contribution to Cars 3 was shading the Florida Speedway environment, in which the climactic final act takes place. It was a massive environment to tackle, and was the biggest technical challenge I had had up to that time. I also shaded various areas of the Thomasville speedway environment, Motor Speedway of the South (MSS), and various miscellaneous environments throughout the film. Cars 3 had many expansive, natural landscapes and terrains, which provided it’s own unique challenges for environment shading and look development.
Florida Speedway
Thomasville
Motor Speedway of the South
Misc. Environments
Project Credits:
Directed By: Brain Fee
Produced by: Kevin Reher Co-Produced By: Andrea Warren
Executive Producer: John Lasseter
Production Designers: William Cone, Jay Shuster
Supervising Technical Director: Michael Fong
Dop Camera: Jeremy Lasky DoP Lighting: Kim White, Co-DoP Lighting: Michael Sparber
Sets Art Director: Noah Klocek
Shading Art Director: Laura Phillips
Graphics Art Director: Craig Foster
Sets Supervisor: Jun Han Cho
Matte Paint Supervisor: Matthew Webb
Global Technology Supervisor: Sudeep Rangaswamy
Rendering Supervisor: Alexander Kolliopoulos
Shading Designers: Chia-Han Jennifer Chang, Paul Abadilla
Sets Designers: Kristian Norelius, Kyle Macnaughton, Daniel Holland, Nelson “Rey” Bohol
Graphics Designers: Josh Holtsclaw, Paul Conrad, Laura Meyer
Additional Shading Art Director: Bert Berry
Sets Manager: Anthony Kemp
Sets Modeling Lead: Mike Altman Sets Dressing Lead: Kristen Beech-Needham Sets Shading Lead: Thidaratana Annee Jonjai
Sets Shading Technical Lead: Francisco De La Torre Sets Technical Lead: Matt Kuruc
Set Dressing Artists
Frank Tai Sophie Vincelette Michael Rutter Tom Miller Nick Pitera
Sets Shading Artists
David Batte Benjamin Beech Tracy Lee Church Andrew Finley Yaa-Lirng Tu Jamie Williams Phyllis Ting Megan Stifter Thomas Jordan Rui Tong Drew Kleven Richard Snyder
Sets Technical Artists
David Luoh James Bartolozzi Marlena Fecho Patrick Coleman