CG Production Memo - August 2026

August brings a major operational turning for our production. With Rigging, 3D Modeling, and Set Layout officially completed, our teams are actively transitioning into Animation, Blocking, and Texturing.

Below is a look of our latest milestones, team highlights, and the steps ahead as we enter our final two months of production.

Design (3D and 2D)
This month, we’re wrapping up some of our most important 3D designs for our characters, environments, and props.  We’ve just begun working on texturing to fully complete our assets and have even started to see some of these designs come to life!

Art by Gaby Chiong

In addition to our 3D art, our 2D team is working on solidifying our color scripts and some additional style frames to narrow down the exact style of our film.  Once completed, they will be delivered to lighting and compositing so they can start their R&D work to find the best mechanisms and processes to recreate their scenes within Unreal Engine and Nuke.

Art by Olivia Lee

Layout
Our 3D Asset Team, Animation Team, and Editor continue working closely to create our film.  They have worked their way through set layout and blocking, having completed all of the shots that we saw in our animatic.  In addition, our Composers and Sound Designer have been hard at work creating the auditory landscape and we’ve been fortunate to see how they all mesh together in our layout passes.  Our screening of the completed layout pass is during the first week of August and we are all really excited to update you on how that went!

Rigging
Our Rigging team through the collaboration of Adnan Hussain, one of our Directors, and Rashi Sinha, our Rigging Technical Director, have completed all of the rigs needed for our film.  For the characters, they were able to use pre-existing Metahumans for the base and adjust and add any controls necessary for the animation team.  Specifically, our characters need to be able to perform soccer tricks so we needed to make sure that our characters were able to move fluidly, like a soccer player would.  

What’s Next:
While we’ve met so many amazing milestones this month, we’re excited to continue our push into Post-Production.  In August, our lighting team, FX, and Compositing start, and then it’s just 2 more months until our film is completed.  We’re so lucky to have many amazing and passionate artists who are in full support of our film and we can’t wait to share it with you.  Stay tuned as we work our way through the final section of our film!