Drink Masters

Title Sequence

I collaborated with Haze Ngu in a class project to create a new hypothetical title sequence for the Netflix show "Drink Masters"

Our main goal was to learn Cinema 4D and Redshift to capture the luxurious and vibrant vibe of the well crafted cocktails found in the show. I created the first four shots and Haze created the last four shots.

Drink Masters is a series on Netflix featuring the best bartenders in competition to find the most accomplished mixologist. The show is intense, competitive, and features beautiful cinematography of artistically decorated cocktail presentations. This title sequence takes you through the liquid abstract makeup of the winning drink and sets the tone for the show, portraying an elite feeling with the clean visual, but including a building sense of chaos and rising tension to reflect key points in the show. This sequence showcases all the behind the scenes of what goes into a perfect drink.

I experimented with many features such as displacers, cloners, Redshift environments, volume meshers, and the new Pyro engine. it was interesting seeing how they compared to Blender on a technical level.

I composed and produced the music in Logic Pro, incorporating liquid samples such as a faucet filling, drops falling, and ocean waves.

I exported all 8 shots from Cinema 4D as multilayer EXR sequences for compositing in Blender. This allowed me to fine tune the denoising, use my custom Bloom implementation, and use some AOVs as masks for color correction.

I also used my custom tonemapper as an OpenColorIO configuration in both Cinema 4D and Blender to set the working space to rec.709 for more control over volume absorption chroma, and avoiding the extreme hue skewing and gamut compression of ACES.