Was Serenity Zoics first major motion picture?
It was the first major film Zoic was the lead on. We were tasked with nearly all the shots. We have done numerous prior films, just on a much smaller scale, wire removals, matte paintings, roto and some CG VFX work in certain scenes. For myself, I worked on the film The Jackal a while back. That was my first time working on a motion picture. I have to say I prefer the constant change of episodic television versus film. How was LightWave used in Serenity? 95% of the visual FX in Serenity were rendered in LightWave. The major battle at the end, the Serenity itself and some digital sets were all LightWave renders. Although the bulk of the modeling and texturing was done in another application, some modeling and texturing was done in LightWave, and all of it was rendered in LightWave. We received assets from our modelers and then animated, lit and rendered everything in LightWave, this includes all the pyro and various effects seen in the film. Most of the pyro was done with real elements,
