Octavio’s cart
EXT. JUNGLE HIGHWAY - DAWN
Aerial: a single black line bisects a sprawling green wilderness.
A light races along the line... like an electron on a circuit board...
We descend on the single light until we see that it's a young man (OCTAVIO, 17) peddling a street vendor's tricycle down a two-lane black asphalt highway.
Owen was able to get the LED strips to sync with our holograms in Unreal Engine. Our aim is to control dozens of these wirelessly from one machine. The same system will be able to control Arri Skypanels as well for larger holograms. These real world lighting effects will ground the CG holograms in a beauitufl and elegant way. The flexibility of Unreal is quite literally unreal.
“Creating the holograms for Octavio’s cart has been a really fun exercise in creating hypnotic, simplistic animation with strong graphic reads to drive the on-set illumination. Drawing inspiration from the scrolling LED signs you might find on a taco truck or outside of a pawn shop, it’s been a unique challenge to emulate technology which appears simultaneously high-tech and low-tech.”