Following up on their recent atmospheric CG short film Sooreal, the team at Pulla Studio in Kosovo just sent us their newest in-house motion project Forgotten Boats, a lovingly lit photo-real exercise in peaceful ambience.

Shkumbin Ferizi, EP/Partner at Pulla Studio: “This project is all about capturing the simple beauty of these quiet places and giving you a chance to enjoy nature and think about the stories these boats might tell if they could talk. We want you to feel like you’re escaping to a place where you can hear the water lapping and feel the soft warmth of the sunrise or sunset.
 

“This project is all about capturing the simple beauty of these quiet places and giving you a chance to enjoy nature and think about the stories these boats might tell if they could talk.”

 
“The most challenging creative part of the project was to keep the storyline in place while matching the scenes so they are all seamlessly aligned. The lighting and the mood had to feel very specific to get the look we were after. In this respect we used every trick in the book and our 20 years of experience to light the scenes and compose them in such a way so it all looks well integrated.

“On the technical side, as always, characters are quite hard to do in CG. In this film we had the dragonfly and the seagulls which we rigged and animated from scratch and tried to give them as realistic movements as possible. We know they could have been better but because we do not specialize in characters we think they serve their purpose in the film.

“Also with lighting, in both the creative and technical aspects, it was not easy to make it consistent yet give you the sense of peace, calmness, and an almost dreamy-like feeling which I hope we achieved. The film was animated in Cinema 4D and rendered in Redshift.”
 
 

 
Production: Pulla Studio
Director: Pulla Studio
EP: Shkumbin Ferizi

Toolkit: Cinema 4D, Redshift