Wings - commercial

Hey guys, we over at Geronimo just finished a commercial for el-al.
was alot of fun, not too much time, and alot of challenge..







Credits:

Creative director : Doron koren.
Compositing : Doron koren,Arieala buguud.
Precomp : Daniel gur areya, Galit.
Rendering, Shading, Lightning : Oryan Medina, Karen abramyanc.
3d Tracking & Misc : Andrea Oustinov.
Rigging, Animation, Modeling : Myself.

Hope you enjoy.

that was really well done, especially the parts you worked on Uri how did you rig the wings? and were those closeup feathers modeled or textures?

I have to admit, the music choice was kinda weird but the visual elements looked spot on for the most part.

Nicely done man, great work. I like the look of the wings, The halo I thought was a bit odd, but the rest was nicely done.

-Z

really nice work man commercial itself seemed a bit creepy to me for some reason hehe but the wings looked fantastic. i actually might need to do something very similar in the future so ill probably be asking you for some help!

not bad

Great job dude!

Ah guys for alot for the replies and the plug!

and I gotta add a special thanks to Tyson, his wing tutroial deff' helped, I basically took all the wings tutorials I found and created some sort of mish-mash with them
basically the wing is a 3 joint fk system (like an Arm I guess) each feather group (there are around 7) has it's own local joint control, and within them their is a constraint system
close to tyson's technique only a bit modifier and to work well with maya, then each group of wings are control with expressions basically..
what was very important was knowing we wont have alot of time actually working on the production ( We had like 3 weeks pre-prod for rigging, modeling , shading etc.. but only 6 days for actaully
doing stuff since we got the footages..) so I basically each big feather is a 3 bone system which is de-reived from the main joint (which has the oriention consttraint setup..) and are basically
a dynamic chain setup ( using maya's hair curves as spline IK.. very handy) so that was very nice, but it casued alot of issues with skinning of the main "fleshy" part to always stay on top of
the feathers so A little extra controlers of a latice of this part was added and only animated after animation was done to fix all intersaction, gaps etc..was pretty tough to rig honestly, but I learned
a lot!

Ridestowe, thanks man when we heard what music they picked we were like, huh? gotta agree horrible choice.. but not our call so what can we done.

Zachm - I agree, was done pretty haistly, looks too floaty and odd to me too..

whaabamb - thanks man.. i'd love to help were making a quick making-off of the rig/passes etc so hopefully ill upload it some time next week that can give you a few tips aswell.

mahmoudan - thanks alot mate

tyson - thanks alot and really I owe you big time for the tutorial.. was great great help.. you'r sparrow animation was 1 of our main references that, Xmen wings guy and constantin..

Hahah well I'm honored! Although I do think that your wings look WAAAAAY better than my bird's wing!

Wow wiz, this looks really amazing. Great job on making it looking believable. I'm gonna watch it one more time

fantastic work! and congrats to you all!

Great job, the wings look really good both in movement and design. Had to watch it 2 times. ...
It looks like it had to be a really complex rig. >>
I like everything except..I have to agree with ridestow music is kinda weird.

Overall great job. and looking foward to see that making-of

wow that was some sweet rigging there. Yeah a bit werd at times but as awhole I think it was fantastic. well done mate.

beautifull work man, congratulations to the staff!

Hey guys thanks alot for all the great replies.. it was very fun to hear
Here is a little making off, done by Daniel , great job mate!

Hope you enjoy.

what are the set of softwares u guys used on this and what is the compositing software, did you roto scope a lot cause to me it looked like there was a huge rotoscoping going on.

Hello everyone, i was wondering if someone can direct me to some tutorials on how to model and rig bird wings like these beautiful ones?
I would greatly appreciate it

ENJOYYYYYYYYYY! THAT SHOULD CONTAIN ALL THE NEEDED INFO TO CREATE THE SAME SHOT:
below includes following topics:
-rotoscoping
-coloredting
-compositing
-modeling
-rendering
-exporting
-rigging
etc... bored to write the rest enjoy again again again










extra equipment will be needed if you want to be flying and maybe invest in a good cam, green or blue screen depending on clothing, crane again for flying, wheeled tripod if need to pan while flying, some plugins that may help:

redgiant
digital anachry
trapcode
tinderbox

additional software:
-hd converter mpeg steamclip 1.2b for windows mac has a higher version
-magic video converter but i prefer total video converter after converting in mpeg streamline
-vlc can stream save if needed mpeg2 ts and so on



if i think of more stuff i will help more ^_^ ENJOY AND KEEP ME UPDATING OR KEEP US ALL UPDATE WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOUR ATTEMPT IN doing this.