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You sent me a video about the Caterpillar thrusters. [Can you tell us about them?]

Michal PiatekVFX Artist, Foundry 42 UK

It was a lot of fun to do because we had a Drake visual guide before, although it wasn't very clearly defined. So I took the Cutlass colors, because I really like the kind of shock diamonds we had and the color scheme. And always when I'm doing thrusters, I'm looking at the mesh of the engine itself. So you can see that there are a few defined columns emitting particles, and that's because the engine itself, the model itself, has those shapes. So I can imagine that fumes would be coming through those holes, creating those shapes. So that makes sense for me. And it's an interesting process, because the vehicle guys, when they're modeling those things out, they kind of do it so it looks cool, and then I'm taking that and I'm making sense out of what they've made. And that's the result.