The Third & The Seventh

[cadmonkey33]

awesome. especially the organic stuff.

[rhino]

Excellent. Really amazing stuff.

[nizzen]

I'm truly technically and visually amazed. Nice start of 2010. Thank You!

All newcomers making showreels are starting from scratch again after this

[stevesideas]

Amazing work! as usual from you..Great rendering quality, excellent artistic eye, camera moves,etc....I feel like i'm so far a away to produce something like that it's inspiring and depresing at the same time!!!...I hate you, Alex Roman

Fernando

Exactly how I feel...now the choices are, do I give up and do something completely different or rise to the challenge of possibly trying to achieve that level of beauty. Absolutely stunning and very emotional stuff !

[priad]

I second that !

[peterguthrie]

Thirded, I have similar feelings about people like Lionel Messi; respect, envy and resignation

[3DMK]

Words don't describe how inspiring it was to watch your movie. Only emotions can, & I felt plenty watching it.

On behalf of ALL CG artists who watch it - THANKS for helping us dream bigger dreams

Cheers
Jamie

[alphacharliecho]

This post is getting some pretty big numbers in terms of replies and views! I thought I could be one more... Totally agree with all the feedback you have had here, and hopefully one day looking forward to knowing more about the rigged trees, your workflow/lighting/camera/colour mapping and GI... I have watched and studied your animation a bunch of times now. And even made the mistake of showing it to a client. Like others have said. I am starting my showreel over. Thanks for raising the bar. Alan

[Mikokariadis]

Hahaha...that comparison to Lionel Messi is damn freaking funny. But hits the spot. Unless you are a van Basten fan. But that is a all different story.

[stevesideas]

Im wondering if the trees were done by normal bone rigging with a wind modifier somehow applied to the bones (not done this before) and then the animation burnt in. Then I guess turned to animatable vray proxies. I might try that now actually

[ripe]

Incredible. Inspirational. Emotional.

Simply superb.

[peterguthrie]

Im wondering if the trees were done by normal bone rigging with a wind modifier somehow applied to the bones (not done this before) and then the animation burnt in. Then I guess turned to animatable vray proxies. I might try that now actually

Go for it Steve, I'd be interested in your findings

[Mikokariadis]

And if you do go for it please do a little tutorial on it, I have no idea what "animation burnt in" means in that context.

[stevesideas]

Will do guys. Ive just seen another tutorial for using flex and weights...but it may be naff..will give some feedback in another thread without risking hijacking this one

So, back to this one. Alex..Im very interested in your process for creating the flicker free animations with vray especially with all the moving trees. Would you be able to share your process for doing this ?

[Buck]

Nice to see that you got the image on the ground glass of the large format camera inverted! Not many people nowdays would know to do that, haha Was the scene actually refracted onto the glass? Or was it a texture map?

Nice color grading and comp work too, very photographic feel