On Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/19033961
On Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiI3Q413voM
Mishkin http://www.mishkin.co.uk
Ben Davy | Vocals, Synth & Programming
Jimmy MacGregor | Guitar
Ali Epstein | Guitar & Vocals
Dave ‘Longman’ Jackson | Bass
Bradie Nixon | Drums
A Butter God is commanding the grim reaper (Craig) to carry out his sick and twisted deeds because of a rough history between Butter God and Mr Toast. Grim unwillingly carries out his orders until eventually he snaps and decided to rid the city of the filthy cretins that dwell within it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v
I would highly appreciate any feedback and comments. Especially from this forum. Tell me what you notice in the background, hopefully I have done what I set out to do. which was make a video you could watch 500 times and still not see everything. ENJOY!!!
This video was created by just 2 people, Ben Daure & Tom Box within After Effects and Photoshop over 8 solid months
Yep… it took 8 long months to create this video, and not 8 months on and off. 8 months of working a regular 9-5 job then coming home and working until 1 in the morning virtually every night and all through the weekend.
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What started out as a simple idea quickly turned into the single most colossal project we had ever taken on. Many of the shots were scaled up and up during the original draft and for the majority we had absolutely no idea how to achieve the look we wanted, it was only through completing the first half of the animation that we realised how to achieve what we didn’t think was possible.
About half way through I had to switch to a more powerful computer (when the 3d stuff starts to crop in) as one of the shots was going to take 3 days to render, then a later shot was going to take 10 DAYS!!!. This is because the whole thing was build within after effects, which probably wasn’t really meant for this type for video. So when 900 stupidly high resolution 3d buildings are in 1 scene before the actual build… everything tends to die a bit.
The video was completed on the 24th of December 2010 at 19:00 and then finalised on the 4th of January 2011
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For anyone interested in the how we made it:
First I came up with the idea for the video, went through the track and separated it into a rough text edit describing the layout of the shot and exactly how long it was
The it gets storyboarded (Badly because I can’t draw AT ALL) and sent to Box for AMAZIFYING (yep….real word)
Box then try’s….. and try’s to decipher what is actually going on in the storyboard before drawing it in Photoshop whilst separating each layer so that it is prepared for animating
I then squirt the Photoshop file into After Effects where it is timed, built and animated (which sounds a lot easier than it actually is, especially within the 3D shots)
It was done on both a Mac and a Pc but I had to switch to the Mac after the clicky fingers shot as the computer simply didn’t have enough ram and couldn’t handle it. Any fan boys of Apple out there who are all smug now can go to hell because the Mac crashed about 400% more than the PC and had infinitely more problems, even though it was 3 times as powerful. **** APPLE
I’M A MUSIC VIDEO AND COMMERCIAL DIRECTOR…AND AM LOOKING FOR SOME VFX HELP ON A MERCEDES SPEC COMMERCIAL I JUST SHOT AND EDITED. I DON’T REALLY HAVE A BUDGET HOWEVER SO THIS PROJECT IS GEARED TOWARDS SOMEONE WHO WANTS TO BUILD ON THEIR REEL AND IS LOOKING FOR FOOTAGE AND OR A PROJECT TO PUT ON THEIR SITE OR PORTFOLIO. PLEASE EMAIL ME IF YOUR INTERESTED. I’M MOSTLY INTERESTED IN PARTICLE RENDERING SPECIALISTS…THE CONCEPT DEALS WITH PARTICLES / BLACK MOLECULES AND GRAVITY.
THANKS FOR YOUR TIME,
AARON
www.aaronplatt.com
I am willing to shoot something in exchange for a VFX artist to repay them.
My project is short notice, so I’m asking if anyone has any experience/tips for getting that quick, motion blurry, super-fast, superhero entrance, that ends with the hero standing chest out with his hands on his hips. Without making it look cheezy/cheap.
Tips on the actors performance and a technique to achieve the effect would be appriated.
A while back I saw some examples of what I’m going for, but now that I need it… well, you know the rest. 🙂
Super VFX for the Super Bowl – Part 1
In part one of its Super Bowl XLV commercials coverage, fxguide looks at Method Studios’ ‘Carma’ spot for Bridgestone Tires and The Mill’s Cars.com ‘Reviews Are In’ ad. And check out episode #101 of fxguidetv for in-depth interviews on Animal Logic’s ‘One Epic Ride’ spot.
And here’s part two, which looks at spots by Absolute Post, QuietMan, Framestore, axyz and The Mill.
VENKATESH SHOWREEL 2011 from Venkatesh Babu on Vimeo.
I am very new to nuke and am begining to understand it more and more now.. I have learned couple of cool tricks that i wanna share.
1. Overlapping masks, color correction problem and fixing it.
If you have two masks that are overlapping and you get some strange results where they overlap than what you can do is connect those two beziers with merge node operation multiply – what that does is nearly connects both of them together and making whenever they overlap the one not to be shown.
Drop an a merge node, connect the A pipe to the bezier that should not be shown and connect the b pipe to the other bezier which will controll where the mask will be shown.. (set the operation to multipluy on the merge node.
Now whenever the bezier connected to the A pipe will be shown only where is overlapping with the other bezier that we connected to the B pipe
(if you need more explenation i will post some screenshots.)
2. Pulling the reflections on top of your elements.
Lets say you are working something on a eye and now all your added elements are covering the reflections of the eye which are big factor in the realism at the end..
What we can do is mask the eye where it have reflections, add a grade node and pull everything black in.. you may wanna play with the black point and white point of the grade node(you can as well add a colorcorrection) and pull everything in leaving the reflections only. Now put a merge node with operation (plus) over your elements connected with the grade… that will put the reflections on top of the elements however it will be too bright, now to fix that we can do the very same thing just reversing the operation.. add another merge (over) under the (plus) now add another merge (minus)connected with the grade and connect it with the merge over(over). be careful you need the A pipe from the merge (minus) connected to the original footage and the b pipe connected to the grade.. and now connect the merge (over with the minus pipe)
Done..
It;s pretty much complicated if you need more explenation tell me so i will post some screen shoots.
3. Color correcting with primatte if you need to preserve some colors.
So lets say you wanna keep the reds in the footage but wanna color correct everything else..
Ok select your footage drop in a primatte (make sure is connected to the fore ground) and with opperation set to Select BG color .. click the color pick up and select the color that you wanna preserve. now deselect everything and put in a color correct node.. connect it directly to the footage and now pull the mask node from the color correct node and connect it to directly to the footage… and look in the viewer trough the color correct.. and its done.. now you can color correct everything while preserving the color you masked out.
i need to go now, however i will post some more late.. and i ask you to do the same.
thanks
edit: i have posted in the wrong forum i think.. please move this thread to NUKE from The Foundry … sorry
i need a Solution for My Problem:confused:. Im working in an Studio as Quality Controller:D. We doing 2D to 3D Conversion work:cool:. from Mocha we Exporting the Shapes as Copy to Clipboard to After Effects.
My Problem is :google::
When Rendering More than 200 frames its showing an Plugin Error and i cant close the AE too:eek:.
May be lots of Splines its giving Problem i think so. And Not a LICENSED VERSION too:eek:. i dont know bcz of this its showing the Error:google:.
If anyone knows the Solution pls Share it with ME:D.
Thanks,
Sriram.R:rollbaby:
To work on Indian Bollywood film
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