Gardensity

[pg1]

This is a personal project that 3 (tooves who is also on the forum and dorian who aint on the forum) of us put together over a few months in our (very limited) spare time.
http://www.gardensity.co.nz/animation.html

Max, Vray, Nuke

It was part of a collaboration with melbourne based artist Ash Keating. It was an entrant into the Christchurch scape biennial art project. Unfortunately due to unforseeable events ,like a great big goddamn earthquake, the event has been cancelled this year.
Enjoy

[add101]

Nice presentation. Nice camerawork, very cinematic.
How much is 3d? Were the people, cars and aerial shots composited?
Even though it has an illustrative feel it somehow feels quite 'real' and lived in. I'm impressed. Nice style! The diagrams with black background are also interesting and informative.

I hope the earthquake wasn't too bad!?

[pg1]

cough cough testing testing

[pg1]

Not sure why but have a few problems trying to post a reply

Hey Add101,

thanks for the comments.

The main tower was all 3d as was all the planting. The surrounding buildings were modelled to be used as mat objects but we photomapped them and left them in for the diagram section. The diagram section is a z depth pass with a dirt map extra texture element on top and some multimatte elements to swap them in and out.
The day of the Heli shoot the camera crew we hired turned up without the HD camera they promised so we ended up with SD Interlaced heli footage which had no colour depth at all. It which was tracked in Syntheyes which took a while and graded in Nuke.

We wanted to output it as 720p but with a lower res backplate this was looking impossible until Tooves came up with the genius idea of doing a tilt shifty type effect thing that allowed us to artisically blur a lot of our problems away

The shot at about 1 minute in the video (a tilt timelapse) was shot as a stable shot. The building was out the top of the shot so Tooves streched the sky and did a fake move in post. Ground shots were shot out of a car window.

Doing a personal project after working all day was...... hard, late nights and weekends. It took me until a few weeks after the project finished to be able to watch it and enjoy it but it was a great learning experience. I picked up lots of new tricks for syntheyes and nuke.

Other than that all the usually culprits, vray, max, Rpmanager, after effects, Nuke and synth eyes. Gratefully rendered on the work (Lastpixel.com.au) farm.

[jason330]

nice work

[stupendousman_dk]

Really nice work - not sure that one building will increase the population that much though :P But really nice work

[stevesideas]

Interesting building designs. Good matching and overall quality. I did notice some flickering on the gray sylised versions, but overall looks really cool.

I lived in Christchurch for 10 months when I was 30...good old base nightclub...oh and starbucks in the center Hope everyone is recovering from the earthquake.

[tooves]

Interesting building designs. Good matching and overall quality. I did notice some flickering on the gray sylised versions, but overall looks really cool.

Thanks for the feedback. Yep there are some glitches in there but only so much spare time to fix em in. Also had limited access to the company renderfarm so we only got a few nights worth of rendering in.

The artist we did this with, Ash Keating, had just dropped a 720p version so now you can REAALLLY pick out the hacks and errors!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWVjbA25vLs

Thanks.

[stevesideas]

What did you use to camera match ?

[tooves]

What did you use to camera match ?

syntheyes. it was interlaced SD footage with burnt out whites and very little colour depth so it was a bit trickier than the usual HD stuff we do.

thanks for feedback!

[tricky]

Can't say I love the actual design, but I do love some of the subtle cam-moves. Nice blurring effects too. Music is pretty good: what is it?

[pg1]

the design was a collaboration between the artist and the team. I agree its not that refined but as with all projects there wasnt enough time and as this was personal time there was even less. The purpose was to get people talking about design rather than to sell one design in particular. The artist wanted something that would really stand out in Christchurch and while I dont love the final design, it definately stands out.
The music was made by a friend of the artist, and I love it even after to listening to it a thousand times.

On a separate note, am I the only one have problems posting to the forum, its starting to get annoying.

[waaazoo]

I love the music also. Tell the friend of the artist to share

Great work averall !