“Unstoppable” shot 315_0090

Posted on January 11, 2026  | Leave a Comment
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A trailer for our upcoming “Unstoppable” independent Norwegian feature just came out so I can single out this shot since it was part of it.

The shot is part of a fun sequence I animated and where the characters land on a nerve track inside the body of Eric and are propelled forward.

At this moment Kaja, our main character, regains consciousness and looks down at the nerve track she is stuck on, while Abel, the secondary character, is still impacted by the high speed crash.

At a quota of 3 seconds a day, those shots had to be expedited immediately to save time for more complicated acting and body mechanics ones at the start of the sequence but I had a very clear idea how I would tackle them from the get go with one of them simply be the reverse of that one, unless it was the opposite 🙂

I also knew I would need to layer a base of vibration on threes and fourth for big parts of the body just so the eyes could rest on something and a layer on ones for fingers or eyelids to create more jitter and craziness.

I also tried to find some areas like the lips and arms to create a more interesting wavy motion and I played with the size of the pupils for the gear change which unfortunately is not visible on the fantastic render by my workmate Antje.

The biggest challenge though, was to push the tamed facial rig to its limits in order to sell the craziness of the action and create a meaningful contrast with the previous acting shots to make the sequence more entertaining and memorable.

The brows were too limited to go further but luckily we had some clusters on the mouth I manipulated as far as I could, until the geometry collapsed and started to overlap too much with the cheeks geo.

I hope you like it and I can’t wait for the movie to come out to show you the entire sequence!!