Sleep Number

A short nature doc about sleep in the natural world, sponsored by Sleep Number

 

Sleep Number agreed to let us produce a series of nature documentaries about sleep in the animal world. I was tasked with creating an intro for each episode. There were 4 episodes. I animated the sun going down over each the environments featured in the series. Each film has its own title, which lands on the environment relevant to the episode.

I built the environments in C4D, the assets are from Quixel megascans, it was rendered in Octane, and comped in Ae.

Render pass showing material ID
Jungle at sunset, somehow you can see the sunset throught the trees. maybe we are on a hillside? Its a render.
Screengrab of a C4D interface showing the project that rendered the jungle scene
Render pass showing ambient occlusion
Render of Desert dunes at sunset.
Screengrab of a C4D interface showing the project that rendered the jungle scene