Conclusion

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.

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........

Vue images

Some of these picture are so *£*$**@ amazing ! !

http://www.e-onsoftware.com/

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

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

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.