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Chapter 2 / Peter Watts “Blindsight”

→It wasn't so much the way they looked. The elongate limbs, the pale skin, the canines and the extended mandible—noticeable, yes, even alien, but not disturbing, not frightening. Not even the eyes, really. The eyes of dogs and cats shine in the darkness; we don't shiver at the sight.

Not the way they looked. The way they moved.

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19/03/2017

↪︎The novel doesn’t have that many characters, which gave Peter Watts ample opportunity to describe each one in depth. We began our work on this part by finding suitable references for each of them. Apart from their appearance, we also needed to figure out their uniforms, find the right mix of recognizable, functional and futuristic.

Characters
References
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Char_ref.jpg
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25/03/2017

↪︎After a few iterations from our concept-artist, we had several character sketches that fit all the qualifications.

Sarasti & bates
Concept art
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Char_bates_3.jpg
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01/06/2018

↪︎We began modeling Sarasti off the concept-art, but then found an AMA of Peter Watts’ on Reddit, in which he mentioned Mads Mikkelsen as the perfect actor for Sarasti’s part. This made our job a lot easier - we took Mads’ appearance as our starting-off point and then tweaked it to fit the vampiric traits described in the book.

Next we needed to figure out skin and hair shading and create his outfit.

Sarasti
Shading test
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Sarasti_shading.jpg
Crew outfit
Design
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Sarasti_suit.png
Sarasti
Final render
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Sarasti_01_02.jpg
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14/07/2018

↪︎In the case of Siri’s character we were lucky enough to find a suitable actor in a photogrammetry database. So this provided us with a starter model and textures.

Siri
Model & texture
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Siri_geo.png
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29/09/2018

↪︎After some manual clean up of the textures and a bit of retopology the model was ready for animation. The sculptor ended up having to make a few more versions of the model in order to give us all the necessary face and neck positions demanded by the script.

Siri
Blend shapes
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Siri_blendshapes.png
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03/02/2019

↪︎All that remained was placing the character in the shot’s environment and we were done.

Siri
Final render
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Siri_frame.Jpg
Characters
In the film
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Sometimes we could conceive of things and still not see them, although they stood right before us.

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