We are thrilled to publish a large and unique body of work for Cameron Design House - a London-based luminaire design and manufacturing studio. We were given more or less free-reign to design and adapt all of these spaces for these beautiful lights to be displayed and we hope you’ll enjoy this first set, with more to be published over the coming months.
Holy hell guys, incredible work! I really appreciate the camera work - too often do I see people trying to replicate a hand-held camera and an extreme over-use of DOF and changing focus… this was simple, subtle, and beautiful - almost as if you had someone who knows how to use a camera
Really guys, kudos. Wondering what the render time per frame for the animation was? Must have been quite a bit of power to push that through.
Thanks plusvisual, We usually do approach each project with a photographers frame of mind as much as possible. Render times varied between 15mins to 1 hour per frame on a dual xeon 64cores systems.
Thank for sharing great project.
I myself into a little bit animation these days and I wonder
what is the program you compose it? I was using after effects, but I got tons of errors, and people mostly suggest nuke
About dof, is it real time or post process? I cannot decide with one is more efficient, since rendering real dof takes tons of time
at around 00:19 image looks like skipping, I know you use 25fps as its europian standart for tv, but why do this happen? and do you know how to solve it?
and just out of curiosity, 1 image for 1 hour! it means like 1 second is like a day, how do you manage to do that? When I have similar job, I automatically send it to rebus. Otherwise its impossible for me to finish it.
Hi hkezer, to compose the animation we primarily used Premiere Pro, with a little of after effects for 1 of the shots where we had to comp some layers together with a little more control.
The reason we used premiere pro mostly and not After effects was because all of the DOF was done in render on this. Other wise we would use something like the frischluft plugin to create the DOF with zdepth passes. In the past we have done it like this but figured it might not work as well with the chandelier so close to the camera.
That’s true, some of the shots look a little like they were juttering but i think this is just a side effect of a lower frame rate and fairly fast moving objects across the image. Ways to improve would be higher frame rate or some sort of frame blending perhaps.
Yeah there was quite a bit of rendering going on in the studio over a few weeks, but not all shots were 1 hour a frame.
Thanks guys for the comments, and thanks Ludvik for the FPS tips. The screen refresh rate wasn’t something that we had considered when putting this thing together.
However, we’ve had a fresh look at this and luckily there were enough extra frames to recompose the thing at 30fps. The Vimeo link is now updated and should look a good bit smoother.
