Having modelled and set up the penguin I wanted to animate him in his natural habitat.
Software
Softimage was used to model and animate the penguin with textures produced in Photoshop and Gimp.Particles were rendered in Soft Particle and Houdini used for composting
Notes
A little re-tooling had to be done to the penguin in order to give him greater freedom of movement
To keep render time down the penguin was rendered separately and placed into still back drops.
The snow was created in Soft particle, four layers were rendered and then composited in Houdini.
Effects such as depth fading and motion blur were added in post.