Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as "The Flare".

Maze Runner: The Death Cure (also known simply as The Death Cure) is a 2018 American dystopian science fiction action film directed by Wes Ball and written by T.S. Nowlin, based on the novel The Death Cure written by James Dashner. It is the sequel to the 2015 film Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and the third and final installment in the Maze Runner film series.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4500922/

https://www.mazerunnerdeathcure.com/

Production Focus and Challenges

The Death Cure was rather quick paced, asking for a mega city recreation from a slum city to a fancy pants city, desert-like environments and lots of decrepit buildings.

I built the shading “setup” that manage the lookdev for the slums. The was daunting because we had millions of shacks and other styled buildings to shade but didn’t have man-power to do them all uniquely in an old fashioned way. In the end, we developed a hybrid shading workflow that allowed certain aspects of shading to be selected through probabilities as well as user selection (for further specific art direction).

Other environment shading builds we put together were rather standard and typical workflows.