MMP2 - Rising Tides

"Rising Tides" is set in a world where a global climate crisis caused a dramatic rise in the sea level. Our protagonist is one of many attempting to run towards shelter: one of the last safe spots on earth. As we follow our protagonist throughout the movie, we see more and more of the impact the flooding has had on the world. People start building up cliffs and trying to escape, but the sea levels rise higher and higher. As we finally approach our safe spot, a ray of hope appears, but the journey is cut short by the consequences of the crisis. Our movie is meant to highlight the ongoing floodings caused by climate change by showing that running away from a problem and doing everything to better the consequences is not going to fix the cause of the problem. "Rising Tides" is our MMP2 project created at FH Salzburg. This project was done mainly in Autodesk Maya and Houdini. Maya was used for asset creation for the train, as well as the character animation. The character was sculpted in ZBrush and retopologized in Maya. The textures were done in a handpainted style in Adobe Substance Painter. We used Houdini for the creation of the Environment landscapes, as well as the houses and scaffolding, and the water simulation. The scene was also set up in Houdini and rendered using Karma.