The deadline is today, and we've worked and worked and subsequently rushed the animation produced. Generally speaking, we're disappointed with the final outcome.
Perhaps now isn't the best time to admit our faults and seem compacent or wise, but maybe this last post can serve as a constant reminder as what not to do in the future.
I believe that we've outlined and concluded our own thoughts relating to the project, which can be seen on our individual blog pages.
Friday 30 November 2007
Monday 12 November 2007
It's The Final Countdown!
Right it really is crunch time now, I've made this to help us keep a tight schedule. Plan, plan, plan! Keep to this and we're sorted!
Vu6 Render Of City
Here we Imported the models from Maya and added some textures to the buildings and lit the scene as well. The result of the final output is really nice and works well.
This was all well, but we are now trying to get a character animation to work within the scene, but we need a plug-in to make this work and we are having difficultly in finding it. : ( So we might be using Maya in the long run, but we haven't lost out on changing programmes, as we had to model every thing in Maya to start with.
Enjoy........
Tuesday 6 November 2007
Darkside Aniamtion
Darkside Animation now based in Russell Square have over 70 years of expericane of making film, Tv special effects.
http://www.dsanim.com/
It's a highly recommend website to visit !
They have done numerous of special effects like for James Bond, lost in Space, Starship Troopers, ITV, MTV to name a few.
Darkside Animation boasts a highly effective render farm, comprised of over 60 computers. when deadlines are tight this system can be relied on to produce frame quick and accurately
http://www.dsanim.com/
It's a highly recommend website to visit !
They have done numerous of special effects like for James Bond, lost in Space, Starship Troopers, ITV, MTV to name a few.
Darkside Animation boasts a highly effective render farm, comprised of over 60 computers. when deadlines are tight this system can be relied on to produce frame quick and accurately
The outlook is Vue
Vue Infinite is the professional level version of E-on software's Vue 3D product line which aims to create highly realistic natural 3D environments.
Vue is also known for its ability of creating plants with relatively convincing realism, and one of the things that helps this is e-on's SolidGrowth plant technology. SolidGrowth gives you over 50 different plant species that you can use to populate your scenes, and the ability to animate the plants so that they appear to sway and bend in variable wind conditions. SolidGrowth is based on random growth technologies so no two plants generated will ever be the same. It also simulates the different colour tones found in nature for even greater variety.
Vue Infinite comes with a high quality standard volumetric atmosphere model that simulates the interactions of light and air as it travels through the atmosphere, which in turn lets you create fog, haze, rainbows, twinkling stars, etc. The software comes with 160 preset atmosphere models which you can load and then edit in the atmosphere editor.
Highlights for Animators
All SolidGrowth™ plants can be animated – wind, breeze, fluttering leaves, growth and decay
Ventilators for local animated wind effects
EcoSystems™ – populate scenes with millions of plants, rocks and objects in one click
Breeze animation can be applied to entire EcoSystems
Inetracively paint EcoSystems
SolidGrowth4 - flicker-free rendering of dense vegetation
Spectral atmospheres - all atmospheric elements and volumetric clouds can be animated
Procedural terrains – LOD is dynamically updated according to distance from camera
Full keyframe animation with adjustable time-curves, tangents and interpolation
Motion designer – quick path-based animation with automatic secondary motion
Automatic baking of indirect illumination
2.5D fast motion blur and DOF
Network rendering, stand-alone renderer, remote rendering for renderfarms
G-buffer and multi-pass rendering
Full intergation with 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, C4D and XSI (xStream only
Vue is also known for its ability of creating plants with relatively convincing realism, and one of the things that helps this is e-on's SolidGrowth plant technology. SolidGrowth gives you over 50 different plant species that you can use to populate your scenes, and the ability to animate the plants so that they appear to sway and bend in variable wind conditions. SolidGrowth is based on random growth technologies so no two plants generated will ever be the same. It also simulates the different colour tones found in nature for even greater variety.
Vue Infinite comes with a high quality standard volumetric atmosphere model that simulates the interactions of light and air as it travels through the atmosphere, which in turn lets you create fog, haze, rainbows, twinkling stars, etc. The software comes with 160 preset atmosphere models which you can load and then edit in the atmosphere editor.
Highlights for Animators
All SolidGrowth™ plants can be animated – wind, breeze, fluttering leaves, growth and decay
Ventilators for local animated wind effects
EcoSystems™ – populate scenes with millions of plants, rocks and objects in one click
Breeze animation can be applied to entire EcoSystems
Inetracively paint EcoSystems
SolidGrowth4 - flicker-free rendering of dense vegetation
Spectral atmospheres - all atmospheric elements and volumetric clouds can be animated
Procedural terrains – LOD is dynamically updated according to distance from camera
Full keyframe animation with adjustable time-curves, tangents and interpolation
Motion designer – quick path-based animation with automatic secondary motion
Automatic baking of indirect illumination
2.5D fast motion blur and DOF
Network rendering, stand-alone renderer, remote rendering for renderfarms
G-buffer and multi-pass rendering
Full intergation with 3ds Max, Maya, Lightwave, C4D and XSI (xStream only
Charlie Vue on big ideas
Here is an image and more to come from what we have achieved with the programme called Vue6.
"High-end features in an intuitive environment. Sophistication and ease of use. E-on software's products for 3D artists provide casual and professional artists everything they need to create richly natural 3D stills and animations. "
As you can see from the image below the quality is very high and can get amazing results, this is a street shot from our storyboard.
Shortly we will posting a short video clip as well.
Thursday 1 November 2007
Notes
Time frame 20 sec = 480 frames for exterior shots
40 sec = 960 frames for interior shots
40 sec = 960 frames for interior shots
Here I just took a screen print in Maya then in photoshop i marked out where things should be and a possible route to take.
Themes
Steam punk
realistic scenes
victorain thems, pipes cogs, smoke
snow, fog, Erie mood, doom and gloom
realistic scenes
victorain thems, pipes cogs, smoke
snow, fog, Erie mood, doom and gloom
Ideas
First ideas
So having a week or so talking about all our ideas combined we came up with our project idea.Set in a Victorian style cobbled street with skyscrapers in the backround. really moody, brown and smokey.
A Shadow is moving accross the ground following the camera forward as you hear the sound of footsteps crunching on snow, heavy breathing and shouting in the distance behind the camera.The Shadow approaches a window of a house on the street and moves up the wall as it gets closer. The camera peers into the window tentitivly, making sure its not seen and checking noone is in the room.The window is slightly ajar and gets lifted up, the camera/shadow enters the room and closes the window quickly but quietly.
Hear talking upstairs and floorboards squeaking. Commotion outside still but muffled. Room lit by 4 candles and a fire place. Door slightly ajar with light behind it.As the Camera turns round to see the room again it knocks over a broom stick laying against the wall, it falls over and hits a key on the piano. This wakes up a bird in a cage.The camera panicks, rushes over to the bird cage and opens it, sticking in a bloody hand it kills the bird in one squeeze. keeps hold of it in his hand.Looks around.Approaches the central table and moves the newspaper closer to a candle. 'Terrible Beast' is the headline. Puts the paper down again.Walks to the Bookcase, pulls out books and books, finds a vessel behind one of them. takes it and drinks half of it, smashes the rest on the floor, see his reflection in the liquid on the floor by his feet.
Vision starts to get blurry, stumbles to an armchair next to the fire.Hand on the arm rest lets go of the bird, falls on his lap. vision goes.
So having a week or so talking about all our ideas combined we came up with our project idea.Set in a Victorian style cobbled street with skyscrapers in the backround. really moody, brown and smokey.
A Shadow is moving accross the ground following the camera forward as you hear the sound of footsteps crunching on snow, heavy breathing and shouting in the distance behind the camera.The Shadow approaches a window of a house on the street and moves up the wall as it gets closer. The camera peers into the window tentitivly, making sure its not seen and checking noone is in the room.The window is slightly ajar and gets lifted up, the camera/shadow enters the room and closes the window quickly but quietly.
Hear talking upstairs and floorboards squeaking. Commotion outside still but muffled. Room lit by 4 candles and a fire place. Door slightly ajar with light behind it.As the Camera turns round to see the room again it knocks over a broom stick laying against the wall, it falls over and hits a key on the piano. This wakes up a bird in a cage.The camera panicks, rushes over to the bird cage and opens it, sticking in a bloody hand it kills the bird in one squeeze. keeps hold of it in his hand.Looks around.Approaches the central table and moves the newspaper closer to a candle. 'Terrible Beast' is the headline. Puts the paper down again.Walks to the Bookcase, pulls out books and books, finds a vessel behind one of them. takes it and drinks half of it, smashes the rest on the floor, see his reflection in the liquid on the floor by his feet.
Vision starts to get blurry, stumbles to an armchair next to the fire.Hand on the arm rest lets go of the bird, falls on his lap. vision goes.
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