The Bearded Trio

Hybride is extremely proud to have contributed its VFX expertise to Luc Besson’s epic fiction action-adventure , Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets .  Joining forces once again with the team at Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the studio delivered 300 shots—for a total of 17 minutes of screen time—for one of the biggest cinematic events of the summer.  Working closely with  ILM visual effects supervisor Philippe Rebours, Hybride artists skillfully crafted VFX for the opening Big Market sequence on the desert world of Kirian. Based on the look development created by ILM’s art department, Hybride artists produced assets that include highly detailed slanted rock formations and mushroom shaped rocks for Kirian’s colorful and unique geology that can be seen outside of the arena market, as well as at the main gate and tower.  Hybride also produced massive desert set extensions and populated the desert arena with nearly 12,500 digi doubles based ...