Supamonks used Yeti in Stone Age Trailer

Supamonks Studio used Yeti to develop the trailer for the new mobile version of Netmarble’s game, Stone Age. Romain Carlier, who’s first introduction to Yeti was at Fix Studios in 2012 and worked as a hair artist at Supamonks for this project, spoke with us about his experience working with our software.

“There were two artists assigned to grooming for this project: Guillaume Kerfriden worked on the lion’s fur and I was responsible for the boy’s hair, the bird and the dynamics. All hair, feathers and fur were made in Yeti/V-ray, and I used Yeti’s dynamics and the new motion node for the wind.”

“When it came to choosing software for this work, Yeti was an obvious choice. It is really simple to incorporate it into the pipeline while being quick and easy to work with while creating fur. On a commercial spot like this, the fact that we can work without maps and just use face sets combined with paintable attributes saves a lot of time, we don’t need to concern ourselves with UV’s so the modelling and fur teams can work at the same time.”

“The difficulty was finding the balance between stylized and realistic hair. For the boy’s hair and the lion’s mane we needed a clean shape but we did want to maintain the the detail in the hair. To achieve this, we used a lot of clumps. In my opinion, clumping is really the strength of Yeti.”

“Squash and stretch in the hair was a major challenge during animation and Yeti handled the job perfectly using guide curves and some clever solutions in the graph. I was also keen to use the new motion node introduced in 2.0 and, again, using some user variables to control the animation it did the job perfectly.”

Congratulations on another great project using Yeti, Romain! Thank you for sharing your work with us.