CGTalk Challenge WIP

Hey all,

Just thought I'd share my progress so far on the CGTalk challenge.....enjoy!

http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animatio ... g_Prog.mov (16mb, with sound)

how much time did you spend to make that clip?

Hmm...well the modelling of the environment and the characters took a couple of days...and the animation took a few hours....I wish I had more time to work on it but we've had a large project at MAKE taking up basically all of my time in the last 3 weeks. ...I'm hoping to be able to put a lot of time into it in the next month...not only because it's due June 3, but also because there's a lot to do still

amazing love the theme, dark and the shiny ground, is his head suppose to be like shaking a lot, man awusoooooooooooooooooooooooooooome

Either way, you have done some great texturing in there and I really like the camera work you have done on this too. On top of that, you have been able to quickly set a mood to it, so congratulations for all this and i hope you'll find time to do what you want on it.

Is that large project at Make over now?

this looks great T, you'll hafta tip us off when you are able to show that MAKE project as well!

Sweet man, it's coming along pretty well. Good luck with finishing and all that.

Ay T! Looks great so far. Can't wait to see how it turns out.

wow, great, as usual! awesome textures and camera work!

wish i had something more constructive to say.

exept for the imo too much wobbeling head you nailed it (as always)
great mood

the character looks kind of odd, maybe it's just the lighting.

Hey all....just dumping some WIP images from the animation

Incredible! The atmosphere you've created is so creepy. Love the cracked visor glass too!

can't wait for the anim!

looking fantastic as always T, the atmosphere really sets the mood.

just noticed on the last pic... you might want to add some opacity gradiant in your reflection on the floor, being reflective close to the characters, and less reflective around the reflection of the head... know what i mean?

REALLY cool Tyson! Looks great!!!!

Peter

one word for you WOW

that's really Awesome! I really love the style of rendering and effects. Waiting for updates.

OH MY GOD. Freaking awesome. Guys like you make me want to learn more 3d animation.

PS. Any hint when your "Cycle Down" trailer will be released ?

Here is an example of the new face texture. Not as waxy...more scratches and stuff take make him look more injured.

I still want to go back and try the sweat again, so if I have time next week I will...otherwise I'm getting the first final draft done this weekend

wow seriously u just pushed the details a lot, he got some serious ass wipping

wow T, he really got the crap beat out of him! the new skin looks fantastic!

Hey everyone! Here's draft #1 of the final version

I'll be making a few small technical tweaks before the final deadline...but otherwise this is the quality of the final version.

http://www.tysonibele.com/Main/Animatio ... g_Prog.mov (70mb, with audio)

Bueno. Muy Bueno. Here the Tyson, have a trowfee.

-Z

Oh btw zach....I really liked your sweat idea but couldn't get it to look right (I had the droplets on his face...but they didn't really look "wet")....so I swapped a hot, sweaty environment with a cold one (hence the visible breath). Hopefully you approve, mon frere.

I love it actually, the breath vapor helps the scene out I think. Everything is so dark, and it's a cold palette anyway, I think the sweat makes sense if the lighting had been a bit warmer say from a nearby reactor or something, but the coldness of it carries it on into the end. And yes, you have my blessing.

-Z

That was the nastiest thing I've ever seen. I'm surprised you showed as much (gore) as you did! In other words.... that was EPIC. The first shot of the space station is incredible too.
~Mechis

Very, very impressive Tyson, from storyboarding, layout, center of interest( or however you call that) to final result...

this made me feel unconfortable, wich is unusual in 3d clips, well done.

i hope you will get the deserved recognition for this!


if i may, here is a questions and two things i noted:

- did you do the light flikering in compositing or in max (or both) ?


- make shure you remove all the black video at the end

- watch out for the compositing, when the "human" left, and you have the guy lying there agonising... the colors seems too colorfull and not as saturated as the rest of the clip... so it seems to stick out, and be weirdly too colorfull (the colors of his suit disturbed me: flashy green and blue).. know what i mean?

- the camera position in shot 7 disturbed me when i first looked at it, felt lost... maybe that' what you wanted, but maybe a little more to the left, and angled so that you can see a bit of the corridor, could have been nice... cause as you have it, it feels like we are the "human" walking up to the guy, which is not possible, since he is comming from the right... (that being said, if shot 7 would be a still camera, that could maybe do the trick) (just looked at it again, try removing shot 7, and see how it works with out it..)

ok, wached it again, i think i know what disturbed me (so don't care about the last comment, i left it, to let you know it did disturbed me)...

with your first shot, you seem to establish the folowing:



geen: guy
Blue, purple:door

at first, i thought the blue was were the door was... this is why i was going on about shot 7 but after watching it a few times, i realised the door is where the purple is, so shot 7 makes more sence)

the problem with your first shot, is that when the camera goes from the the guy's head to the door, the coridor with the blue dot in it, is absolutly dark, so it feels as if you are looking at the corridor with the blue dot in it, where in fact, you are looking at the one with the purple dot...(feels like a 90 degree turn instead of a 180) so if you add somewhat of light in that blue coridor, the spectator, might understand what is going on a little better



then this makes me point somthing else,

i understand your handheld camera motion helps to give it dynamism and all that, it does look cool, and helps the "fear" and "unstable" feeling of your clip, but make shure not to abuse of it, for example i think it is un nessesary in your opening shot when the camera is in space,

same as other shots in your short, with the camera on the groud standing still, the fact that the guy sitting is all messed up and weak will stand out much more, especialy if you make it folow by a "handheld" shot as if it was us looking through his eyes.

i hope you understand what i mean, and i hope you will not take all theses comments wrongly, as this is a great, astonishing clip of yours! i know you probably won't change any of the said above because of the deadline, or simply because you might want to move on to somthing elses, but i thought i'd let you know what i was thinking about this clip!

Once again this is a personal point of view, so take it or leave it