Ghosts and Mansion - Haunted Mansion

Character body rig, set rig and rig developpement work I did on on the movie Haunted Mansion for Disney.

One of the main challenge was to get the accurate skeleton moving with the CG character rigs that could be used between all ghost characters. I was involved with this projects since the early VFX tests and a lot of work was put in the visual rendering of this "ghost effects". The main challenge with seeing an skeleton under a CG character is that the bones pivots and behavior will not necessarely match the organic deformations set up above it. Shading also needed some setup for animation to choose what they wanted to see.
I also rigged the two ghost duelists digi double, they were the first test subjects in a sort!
I could also work on the set extensions and props animations for the hallway sequence were the mansion change it's layout. Last asset i rigged was this wooden crow that takes off for one scare jump. The model had to match the prop on set but also change the shapes of the sculpted feathers to properly take flight.

This work was made at DNEG among the amazing creature TD team at DNEG Vancouver.
Haunted Mansion is a 2023 American supernatural horror comedy film. It is the second theatrical film adaptation of Walt Disney's theme park attraction The Haunted Mansion, following the 2003 film of the same name. In the film, Gabbie (Dawson) and Travis (Chase W. Dillon) enlist the aid of a team (Stanfield, Haddish, Wilson, and DeVito) to help exorcise the ghosts around them.

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