The Portfolio of Sam Hodge

Working as a Lighting TD at Weta Digital.

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I worked on a number of shots in the around the Well of Souls, where Sigorney Weaver's Character Grace has been wounded and the Na'vi take her to thier sacred place the Well of Souls and perform a chanting ritual to transfer the soul of the human grace into Eywah Tree and then back into the Avatar body.

The shots I worked on were:

Moat chanting as a head shot
Neytiri and Jake as head shots looking up from the Grace
Full body shot of Grace Avatar on a bed of glowing vines starting to get covered in cilia rising up from the glowing vines
Grace Human side by side with Grace Avatar with Moat doing her hand waving over them with Jake and Norm in the background
Close up on the back of Grace Human's neck with the virtual queue made from cilia on the back of her neck , with creepy crawly cilia.

It was pretty good fun to work on a new pipeline that had some pretty sweet features, but it was a pretty big task we has to tackle