animation in progress

[johnszot]

vray form-ers -

posting as a WIP:

http://www.vimeo.com/15958100

a bit from an upcoming short-film release in march 2011. there is still quite a bit missing in the context, but comments and crits welcome.

obviously influenced/inspired/guided by Alex Roman's masterpiece, but also big big ups to Bertrand Benoit and Peter Guthrie whose online tutorials and immaculate resources are making everyone's jobs/lives easier and more productive. thanks fellas.

- j

[Sawyer]

Nicely done. Love the ambient noise.

[jacksc02]

Liking it alot.
More grime and dirt is needed to bring out the "urbaness"

[nils_p]

Agreed with the above comment. Personally I think the cameramotion, especially in the beginning, is a bit too fast.

Overall very nice!

[jophus14]

Great video. I'm looking forward to seeing the entire project. Keep posting.

[BBB3]

Great stuff. Love the style. Technically the materials are superb.
I would perhaps add some "noise", as in randomness, in the camera movement for that subtle extra touch of realism.
Glad you found the tuts interesting

[johnszot]

thanks for the kind words everyone.

more grime? wow. as you can imagine, the grime is painstaking. anyone have any pointers on a procedural method for doing so? i.e. a good vray dirt map trick etc.?

[sandykoufax]

Very very nice!
Texturing is really awesome!

[johnszot]

thanks SK!

as things progress - another waypoint - the film is in three parts and the first lighting tests for the "shibuya" section are here:

http://www.vimeo.com/16140027

[Neal.Phillips]

really like the look and feel!.... really nice lighting and materials... love the graphic at 1.45 on the floor.... i take it the graffiti is all yours?? illustrator work? im working on something similar.. will post soon

[Neal.Phillips]

sorry just realised the graphic was on the wall (monday morning brain dead.. apologies!)

[johnszot]

NP - yr not the first to get disoriented by the camera angles - thinking about revising those....as for the graffiti - only small portions are by our studio; the majority is taken from photos of graffiti in our archive from Brooklyn (NYC) and Detroit:

http://www.johnszot.com/albums/detroit2010

that's a sample.....


- j

[CCS]

This is fantastic. Love the textures. A couple questions... Is the vignetting VRay's or did you do it post? I usually turn it off for stills. I've never seen it used in an animation like this, but I think it's a great look.

Also curious how you did the sun flares. Very cool.

[johnszot]

thanks JSS - the vignetting is definitely post; every time we do things like that "in-camera", we get into trouble - the sun flares are After Effects, check out Alex Roman's breakdowns of his work on 3rd/7th film - very very informative, that stuff.....think you can find it here: http://vimeo.com/5407991

[CCS]

Cool! Thanks for the info!