Athleticus - Animals for TV Series

Athleticus is a series broadcasted 2''x30 on the French channel Arte. The concept is animals playing sports in gym or stadium. I was General Supervisor in the seasons 1 and 2. For the season 2, the background change and the animals go to the winter sports.

For this occasion, we add two new animals, a kangaroo and a puffin. In addition to supervision, I was in charge to the fabrication of the puffin, from modeling to shading and hair and fur making with Ornatrix. I have a lot of references for creating a puffin realistic but with a view to optimizing for quick calculating in TV Series. It's not a feature film and it was necessary to find a mix between realism and efficiency.
The other animals was extracted of other projects and adjusted for rendering in 3dsMax and optimized to rendering for TV Series, with simplifying.

The elephant was a modeling and shading of Soline Bejuy and Eddy Tavus for Maya on Futuroscope show
Thiegiraffe was recovered from the short film 5m80 (https://vimeo.com/58647492) with a modeling / texturing and shading made in Maya by Nicolas Deveaux.
This hippopotamus was recovered from the advertising TV France 3 (https://vimeo.com/101503859), with a modeling and shading made in Maya by Thomas Mansencal.

The TV Series was rendering with V-Ray, quick adding with Substance Painter, compositing on Nuke.