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3D Still + Animation
Clank, a VFX short
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05 Dec 2008Hey everyone, its been a while...but here's one of the latest projects I've worked on!
This project was a collaboration at Pixel Farm between me and Eric Schulist. The goal was to demonstrate visual effects integration into a live action plate rather than an in-depth story. I was responsible for the modeling, animation, some simulation, and dust/plasma particle effects. We kept it to a simple shot, mostly for us to learn more once we have to tackle bigger projects down the road. It was entered and shown at Minnesota's Electronic Theater 2008. The main programs used were Maya, Realflow, and Shake.
We worked on it off and on since January whenever we had free time. If I were to make a guess about total work hours, I'd say close to 3 months worth...maybe..
Here's a screengrab, along with the movie, and a making of.
Movie
small: http://joerusso3d.com/content3_animation/clank_405.mov
large: http://joerusso3d.com/content3_animation/clank_720.mov
Making Of
small: http://joerusso3d.com/content3_animatio ... of_405.mov
large: http://joerusso3d.com/content3_animatio ... of_720.mov
For slower internet, you can visit my site for flv versions: http://joerusso3d.com
Now, I know what will be said...with it being similar to Tyson's ball bot and all...BUT I swear to you the truth when I say this project was in concept a few weeks before that tutorial was released! But believe what you want! Tyson made me furious that day.... just kidding man!
I hope you enjoy!
C&C welcome
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05 Dec 2008very nice work
very good mood good rendering good animation but i have one crit
the first "transform" and walk of the clank is way too fast imo the rest is ok. -
08 Dec 2008Wow dude...I am seriously impressed!
I watched the spot 4-5 times and concluded that the liquid at the end had to be part of the plate....my mind was blown when I saw it was cg! What solution did you guys use for it? Realflow?
Insta-plugged
One comment though, is that I think adding motion blur to the cg spider could have helped it a lot, especially since it has a lot of quick movements. -
08 Dec 2008Thanks! And yea, the liquid was done with Real Flow, while also using the bottle geometry shards as collisions objects etc. That was one of Eric's task.
As for the motion blur if you frame by frame you will see it does have blur on it, although I think perhaps the blur amount might not be high enough to compensate for the speed, so maybe that's why it looks weird.
Thanks for the comments and plug
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troubadour 207 posts08 Dec 2008Chapeau !!!
nice fluids and well deserved frontpage
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08 Dec 2008
wow...awesome. This was really good!!
would you be able to share more details on the making of this piece by any chance?
totally great stuff!! -
08 Dec 2008just awsome dude I loved this.......went to your
web Great stuff man......... -
08 Dec 2008Great work man! Nice to see Pixel Farm is still around making cool stuff!
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Gotmilk 228 posts08 Dec 2008Thank you for sharing your work. I really did enjoy watching this animation -
d4rk3lf 109 posts08 Dec 2008I wonder... for the background did you use static image or video material?
What can I say, this video is awesome. Maybe spider should be a little slower, but that's maybe just me. -
rrateme95 262 posts09 Dec 2008That was totally awesomeee -
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