Home is an upcoming American 3D computer-animated buddy comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is based on the 2007 Adam Rex's children's book The True Meaning of Smekday and stars Rihanna, Jim Parsons, Jennifer Lopez, and Steve Martin. Tim Johnson is the director, and Chris Jenkins , adapted by Tom J. Astle and Matt Ember. The film is scheduled to be released on March 27, 2015.

CHICAGO

HOME-Boston from Ravi on Vimeo.

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BOSTON SET BREAKDOWN

Concept Art from art director Emil Mitev

"Boston was the first set i built for HOME. I started with a concept from my Art director. I took that image and broke it down so i could cleverly build and design assets that would be cost effective. Each building had different facades, so you could turn it around when positioning it and would be a completely different building.The city was built with 5 buildings.With those buildings i made 4 variations of blocks that were used to populate the city. Its was a very simple process that saved alot of time and money down the pipeline."

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Break down of buildings - how many variations i got form each building.

PARIS

Paris set lighting Test,
Matte painting of sky and Eiffel tower painted by Emil mitev.
lite by lighting dept at Dreamworks Animation.

paris set from Ravi on Vimeo.

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"After i designed the Boston location, which was a very big location,. I had to make sure for Paris set we had the same feel of a big city but since it was featured less in the film i had to be cleaver about it. So i built this full city with only 5 buildings following the same concept of having every facade representing a different building. this image shows all the variations i got from only 5 buildings. we played with heights but adding more floors the the existing buildings."