Viva: Honeybear

Close-up of a realistic CG bear-shaped honey bottle with honey dripping off of its cap.

Client: Viva Signature Cloth

Agency: FCB

VFX Studio: House of Parliament

Role: Look Dev, Lighting

Tools: Houdini, Arnold, Substance Painter, Maya

The honeybear bottle is moving in a puddle of sticky honey.

A real woman picks up the CG honeybear bottle, as she wipes the table with Viva paper towels.

The woman squeezes the honey out of the surprised honeybear bottle.

Contribution & Impact:

I was responsible for the look dev and lighting of the Honeybear bottle, balancing multiple interacting transmissive and subsurface scattering materials across the bottle and honey, while integrating with the live-action plates and on-set talent interactions.

The character animation required the bear's arms to seamlessly separate and reattach to the body. To support this, I developed a Houdini setup that dynamically modified topology while preserving velocity, UVs, and other critical attributes, ensuring stable shading, motion blur, and lighting continuity within shots and across the sequence.