No Country for Soft Men

We had a rough idea of the story, so we focused on our main guys, giving them hats to add some more character and a detailed storyboard followed. Previz and animation were done in Maya. We also composed the original music in the early stages as we knew it had to fit the editing. Most of the modeling was done from scratch, where we also had some fun with building our own tools, like the procedural cacti generator, but we also used some Quixel assets for the desert vegetation and rocks. After assembling the characters and the scene in Houdini the final touches were to add string and smoke simulations along with some other subtle tweaks.