The Message Teaser Trailer

[l.a. akira]

Hey everyone,

We've released a teaser for an upcoming CGI short film called The Message. Please take a look at tell us what you think! Modeling primarily done in modo, surfacing in 3ds Max/Vray and comp work in Nuke. The complete short is about 6 minutes long with roughly 120 shots.

Teaser on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/104443905

Shot Breakdown on Vimeo
https://vimeo.com/104330120

Teaser on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYZBtv-g2XA

Shot Breakdown on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4M-...ature=youtu.be

[vlado]

It's all rendered?

Best regards,
Vlado

[l.a. akira]

yep. 100% CGI. All shaders and no projection mapping.

[joconnell]

Reflections might be a bit overcooked for my liking but it looks great - you guys are animals

[kosso_olli]

Wow! Couldn't believe it is all rendered until I saw that breakdown. Looking great!

[snivlem]

This should end up in the Chaos Group 2014 Demo Reel! Very nice renders.

[Syclone1]

WOW! looking sweet

[glorybound]

Awesome! Please, share the horsepower behind the render. Kudos to the talent who created it!

[alexyork]

Insane work, really....!

[armilla]

Wow, that's incredible! I would never have guessed that it's all CG.

[l.a. akira]

Hey everyone,

Thank you for the warm comments! We worked pretty hard on this and still working hard to find time and money to get the short completed by next year. We have about 38 Asus mini pizza boxes here. Half of which are intel 4 core and the other half intel 8 core. The cuts are rather quick and it's tough to get good shots of the bike so I wanted to also share an image of it as well.

[Syclone1]

seriously cool stuff! cant wait to see the finished product. keep up the great work

[l.a. akira]

We're hoping to get it all done by november next year and it's quite a bit of work but we'll do our best. Once we get closer to the release, I'd love to share a few more things but for now you can see a few still render tests as well as some side by side previz shots in our kickstarter pitch on vimeo. Have a peek if you like!

https://vimeo.com/106852945

Also wanted to add a few test renders before comp. Modeled in modo, surfaced and lit with Max/Vray

[l.a. akira]

Here is another render from 'The Message'. Again, modeled in modo, surface/lighting in 3dsmax/vray and all the comp work done in nuke. Crowd simulation was done using thinking particles. There are about 70,000 or so animated characters.

[sjmoir]

They all look great, but I really like that last one. What does it look like straight out of Vray? Are the volumetrics added in Nuke?