Home Actor Tarun Lak HD Photos and Wallpapers July 2023 Tarun Lak Instagram - Another test from #elemental ! With this one I was interested in exploring how Wade and Ember interact, with both their personality and their element coming into play. How does one influence the other? It was fun to discover how the emotion could play up their elemental nature. When Wade cries, he also melts and loses sense of structure due to his vulnerability. When Ember blows up, her fire intensity could explode momentarily, returning to her natural state when she calms down. Not everything here stayed in the final film, but this helped in early exploration when we’re still throwing around ideas to see what we could do with these unique characters. #ember #wade #pixarelemental #animationtest #characterexploration #2danimation #pixar

Tarun Lak Instagram – Another test from #elemental ! With this one I was interested in exploring how Wade and Ember interact, with both their personality and their element coming into play. How does one influence the other? It was fun to discover how the emotion could play up their elemental nature. When Wade cries, he also melts and loses sense of structure due to his vulnerability. When Ember blows up, her fire intensity could explode momentarily, returning to her natural state when she calms down. Not everything here stayed in the final film, but this helped in early exploration when we’re still throwing around ideas to see what we could do with these unique characters. #ember #wade #pixarelemental #animationtest #characterexploration #2danimation #pixar

Tarun Lak Instagram - Another test from #elemental ! With this one I was interested in exploring how Wade and Ember interact, with both their personality and their element coming into play. How does one influence the other? It was fun to discover how the emotion could play up their elemental nature. When Wade cries, he also melts and loses sense of structure due to his vulnerability. When Ember blows up, her fire intensity could explode momentarily, returning to her natural state when she calms down. Not everything here stayed in the final film, but this helped in early exploration when we’re still throwing around ideas to see what we could do with these unique characters. #ember #wade #pixarelemental #animationtest #characterexploration #2danimation #pixar

Tarun Lak Instagram – Another test from #elemental !

With this one I was interested in exploring how Wade and Ember interact, with both their personality and their element coming into play. How does one influence the other?

It was fun to discover how the emotion could play up their elemental nature. When Wade cries, he also melts and loses sense of structure due to his vulnerability. When Ember blows up, her fire intensity could explode momentarily, returning to her natural state when she calms down.

Not everything here stayed in the final film, but this helped in early exploration when we’re still throwing around ideas to see what we could do with these unique characters.

#ember #wade #pixarelemental #animationtest #characterexploration #2danimation #pixar | Posted on 26/Jun/2023 00:41:57

Tarun Lak Instagram – Some early Ember performance tests on #elemental back from 2021. 

This is roughly what our models looked like in animation- before fx, sim, shading and lighting made it look pretty. 

These were also done while we were working with riggers to figure out appeal and controls we might need to animate her. 
We were also exploring what fire movement might be incorporated into performance. 
Some of partial disappearing effects on the arms(we called it presence), head flame size, fire intensity, breaking of skeletal structure were explored here.

The big key component that wasn’t figured out by this point was how much we were going to drift fire character movement, especially after they landed in a pose. 

I had a lot of fun doing these, sound is removed here since internal scratch dialogue was used.

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Tarun Lak Instagram – I joined the #elemental team early in preproduction, back in spring ‘21, before the characters were going to get built. My first assignment was to explore something in 2d that could help inform what we might wanna do with the characters. So I came up with this test- I wanted to see how a fire character would have to perform human like physical actions. Given that she was going to have a delivery scooter, I thought I’d play with that. 

Fire having no solid definition, would morph, shrink or grow in different situations. It can get lost in quick movement and regrow itself due to the person’s “life force”.

What was fun to discover was that fire people would need to exert more energy, equaling more intense fire to lift heavy objects or push/pull anything. 

The lack of bones or flesh meant they weigh very little so it lent itself to a very lose style of movement, making sure we never felt too much structure in the body, only enough to keep them looking like their design, reading their acting and distinguishable from other fire people. 

All this also allowed for some really fun loose firey shapes, abstract smears, fire trails, etc, that made these characters uniquely fun to explore and animate.

Never thought I’d have a chance to do 2d professionally, even as exploratory tests, so this was really fun to do. More work soon!

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