Short Movie: Domination

[madcan]

Full Script:
I added the script. You can read it here (http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/hakimiyet-eng.pdf).
It's in PDF format.

[dodo3d]

I like the idea ...

I 'd like to join ur team .. I am working with maya and 3dsmax ,I can model mechanical or nonorganics stuff..
show the concept that need to be modeled so I can start the jop ;)

[madcan]

Thank you dodo3d. I sent you a PM for details. It's great to meet people through here.

We need a concept artist for the environment as well as 3d artists. Is there anyone for that, too?

[JIII]

I work with Cinema and Modo, I am quite interested in this project. I only have limited hours due to my school starting in about 10 days, however I would love to help with this and can work very fast and efficently.

-John

[JIII]

Also, do you have a good compositor for this film, or how are you going to mix your 3D/2D elements together?

-John

[madcan]

Hi J3 (yep I read that right :P), and welcome aboard then.

Right now we have the design limits for the city buildings. I sent you a PM for it.

I am the compositor by the way and I am experienced in that aspect. But if someone better comes along, it's better for me too :)

[madcan]

JIII, denntanos and dodo3d joined in and we are communicating through a mailing list now. Some work has already started. We are working on how to collapse buildings in a more realistic way right now. Also JIII is modelling the spy cam.

But we still need a concept artist for the city very urgently. We also need some texture makers and more modelling help would be appreciated.

[madcan]

Now there is a concept artist working on the city for some time. He is going to finish the city's concept art by this week and then modelling for the city will begin.

[Tughan]

Hi there my friends,:wavey: (Selamlar!)

Looks like it's going to be nice project. I'd like to help as a Character Animator. You may check out my website to see the works I've done.

Good luck.

[madcan]

Our concept artist, Nephtali Andres Leal Garza who is from Mexica, draw this concept art for the city and it really captured what I had in mind. JIII liked it too and now he is working on the city while Nephtali is working on the destroyed city.

[elmaestro]

Hi , your Idea for the movie has facinated me from the moment I had seen it , and I would like to join your team as a modeler (Characters , Architecture or whatever the type of the model ) , I work uzing zbrush for the organic models , and 3d2max for the architectural ones

waiting for your reply

[madcan]

Hi there El-Maistro. We still need modelers, especially on archetecture. So welcome aboard. I have added you on msn and I told JIII about you. He is the effect supervisor and directing the cg team so he will add you, too.

[HHH316]

Count me in, I would like to be apart of this, I can work in all apartments of CG.

Some of my work
http://www.freewebs.com/gileshhh/

Awaiting response

[madcan]

Wow, your work looks great hhh316. It will be really great to have you on our cg team as both a modeler and texture artist. I sent you a PM for my contacts. I will send your information when I get them to JIII as well.

[JIII]

Alright, Giles and Ahmed, check your e-mail :-), I have e-mailed you details of the project.

Alican: also check your e-mail :-).

Things are looking good,

-J3

[Adalast]

i'm good with modeling vehicles, props, particle effects and architecture. i use autocad for my 3d architecural modeling, and a combination of 3ds and wings3d for my prop and vehicle modeling and of course i use 3ds for the particle work. i am also working with learning compositing and post production work. if i could take a crack at it, i would be very greatful, the practice would be appriciated.

[JIII]

Alright dude, I will send you an e-mail or PM with the details in the next few days.

As soon as I get off my butt and finish the layout of the city etc we can start modelling the buildings that need to be done. However, I don't think AUTOcad is what we want to model buildings in, as these have to be very poly-conscious :-).

I will let you know man,

Thanks,

-JIII

[Adalast]

just let me know the counts you need for them and i'll make sure they are. i only do my base modeling in autocad so i can use the floorplan to actually get it set up. i do all my finishing work in 3ds, so the poly counts won't be an issue. i would really like to do the vehicles if you don't have anyone assigned to them as of yet. Also, if you are rendering in 3ds, i have a small farm here i would volunteer for you, take some of the load off of your comptuers. it's not much, but every frame helps.

[JIII]

Rendering is being done on a scene by scene basis depending on each artists and each programs input and capiblities.

The only vehicle is being done by Tanyeli, an artist in Istanbul, right now. However, if any other vehicles come up I will let you know.

Expect more pretty soon,

-J3

[JIII]

Adam: Check your mail,

-John

[madcan]

Hello again after a long time.

This weekend we had our shots but meanwhile JIII had a job of his own and unfortunately told us that he won't be able to help on this project anymore.

That means we need a new CG Supervisor and of course some new CG people. We need modelers, texture makers, character animators, matte painters. Actually we need all the help we can get and in short notice.

You can see a few scenes from the movie here (these frames are not color corrected, they are just captured from the camera):

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/bscap005.jpg

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/bscap006.jpg

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/bscap007.jpg

[Sid Barnhoorn]

Hi Alican,

Looks like a cool project. If you need any music underscoring done, you can check my site to hear my work:

www.sidbarnhoorn.com (http://www.sidbarnhoorn.com)

Nevertheless, I wish you the best for this and future projects!

Cheers,

[HHH316]

The set is looking good.

[madcan]

Hi everybody,

We started on keying and erasing some unwanted details from the scenes. But meanwhile we still need help on everything CG. I am sending you a composited shot from the movie and it's uncomposited one. Since we don't have anything CG right now, I used our concept art for the city as the background. So it's temporary. But you can get the color and the mood of the movie.

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/hakimiyet_1_2_u.jpg

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/hakimiyet.01.jpg

Alican

[LukaStellwag]

Hello,
if you seriously need some help, I'd offer myself. I'm working with Maya - If you're interested, just send an eMail.

Greetings,
Luka

[maantas]

well i am not shure if i can help u but id like to.
first check my www to see if what i do is good enough for your project.
and feal free to contact me. me free time is a bit "nonexisting" :) but well see..
m.

[madcan]

Thanks guys,

We've sent you the details on CG work.

Cheers,
Alican

[JIII]

Very good to hear from y'all - I think it's great that more people are working on it here. Feel free to post WIPs and all in this thread.

Good luck,

-JIII

[madcan]

While we still need a character modeler and animator, these are some building works from maantas. We loved them and thought that we'd better send them here as well. They are just like we had imagined, great work.

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/02.jpg

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/09.jpg

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/12.jpg

And this one is from Littleluk, again a great skyscraper.

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/top_wire.jpg

[DarknosAurae]

Hey, this project looks very interesting. Id love to join in, I can model architecture, robotics, basically anything nonorganic atm. Good luck.

[justwanderedin]

Projects looks very cool so far.

Let me also chime in and say that if you need some music, I'd love to write some.
You can check out some of my work at http://www.christopherdierks.de

Stylewise you might want to check "arrival a naabeth"... ( http://www.christopherdierks.de/media/Naabeth.mp3 )

Anyway, best of luck to you and your team!

[madcan]

Thanks Darknos, we've sent you a message now. We will be very glad to have you with us.

Thank you too justwanderedin. We have a composer working on this movie right now but we are meeting some very nice composers like you along the way. That will be great for our future projects.

[DarknosAurae]

Hey I just sent you an email. And thx Im glad I could join a nice project like this.

[madcan]

Hey everybody,

We are in urgent search of a Matte Painter.

We have created the rest of the set as cg, and started compositing the shots. Textures will be ready in a few days but right now cg roof doesn't have any proper texture and lighting. Also our matte painter made some examples and we used them on these composites. But we can't reach him for some time so it looks like we will need a new matte painter.

I am sending you these examples on composites. There will be our flying police vehicle added into that last one and that light will be coming from it.


http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/atesham.jpg


http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/atesdeneme2.jpg

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/burcuayakli.jpg

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/burcuayaksiz.jpg

[Kutkin]

I began working on the final sequence shot.
http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/domination_sunrise_anim_img.jpg

See more (http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=3999132#post3999132)

cheers

[Kid-Mesh]

This stuff is looking really good. Great job thus far :thumbsup:

Will it be viewable online once completed or are you going to put it through the film festival process?

[madcan]

Hi there,

Thank you for your interest.

Yes it will be online on www.babun.org once it's done. But also we will send it to festivals and TV channels etc.

[Surrealix]

Wow those shots are looking amazing, best of luck with the production, and I can't wait to see it once youv'e finished :thumbsup:

[madcan]

Hi everyone. We need someone with a very good knowledge of particle modeling and animation. Is there anyone that can help us? There are two scenes. One is where our creature spits out some flower pollens and the other one is in the scene where she throws a little bag and there comes out some seeds that goes into the police vehicle's motor.

By the way, thanks to Kutkin's great matte painting work, here is a composited shot from the movie (with only a few things missing):

http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/burcusapkaat.jpg

[therealdeal20]

hey id liek to join im a modeler i can do some texturing. I use maya mainly. what would you need me to model

[madcan]

Hey there therealdeal,

Sorry for the late answer. Are you good at particles? We've mostly done the modeling but we need someone for good particle effects and also someone for demolution of the modeled buildings.

What say you?

[Kutkin]

I thought I would send some images...

The sunrise shot:
MATTE PAINTING
http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/domination_sunrise_cgp.jpg (http://www.rybarstvi-hodonin.cz/kutkin_web/domination/sunrise.html)

VIDEO (http://www.rybarstvi-hodonin.cz/kutkin_web/domination/sunrise.html)

The Night shots

MATTE PAINTINGS
http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/dom_night_web3.jpg

http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/dom_night_shot_l3_final_web.jpg



The flying vehicle
http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/vehicle_metalic_03.jpg (http://www.rybarstvi-hodonin.cz/kutkin_web/domination/vehicle_metalic_animtest_final.mov)

VIDEO (http://www.rybarstvi-hodonin.cz/kutkin_web/domination/vehicle_metalic_animtest_final.mov)

I painted all the matte paintings shown here, I also made the sunrise shot animation. The model of the flying vehicle is made by Can Tanyeli. I did only materials and lighting on it.

I hope you guys like those.

cheers

-Pavel Cucka

[Kutkin]

I'm now working on another view of the night city.
http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/cops1.jpg

Source:
http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/bscap007.jpg
cheers

[Kutkin]

Hi there!
Here comes an update.


http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/cops2.jpg


Hope you like it.

cheers

[Kutkin]

Hey guys.
I've been given another thing to do - the interior of cockpit of the flying vehicle.

First stage of progress here:
http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/interior_web1.jpg

Source:
http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/bscap000.jpg

I hope you guys like it.

I usually don't do things like this since I'm mainly a matte painter, but this is being great fun and new experience!

Crits and comments very welcome.

Cheers
-Pavel

[JIII]

very nice work. Keeping the style consistent I like it :-).

You've learned a damn lot recently.

-John

[softdistortion]

Nice! :thumbsup:

[Kutkin]

Thanks guys.
I'm very glad you like it.:)

[madcan]

I don't know what we would do if you weren't working with us Pavel. You've brought this project lots of steps ahead.
Also very much thanks to John for introducing you to us. :)

[Kutkin]

Hi guys.
Here is a small update.
http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/cockpit_interior_web2.jpg

I know that it is too obvious that the sides are copied, but I'll work on it more.

TEST VIDEO HERE (http://www.rybarstvi-hodonin.cz/kutkin_web/domination/cockpit_animtest1_web.mov)
for those of you who are interested.

I hope you still like it:).

Cheers
-Pavel

[softdistortion]

Did you hand paint the cockpit? Looks great whatever you used
Now we wanna see the action version!! :wip: :)

[Kutkin]

Thank you SD:)
I painted maybe about 75% of the cockpit. Just some of the pipes (or what are they) in the back are from photo.

thanks again
cheers

[Kutkin]

Hi guys!:)
I think the cockpit is finished.
http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/interior_letterbox_web1.jpg
I made it wide screen and I think it helps it.

What do you think?

Comments and crits very appreciated.

Cheers and hope to hear from you.

-Pavel

[softdistortion]

hmmm...I love what you are doing with the cockpit, and widescreen rules...if you stay with wide format, you might want to go with a closeup shot to avoid some issues.
It looked like you had a hint of reflection in that first 4:3 shot and that made it sell better. The canopy perspective and interior glass reflections need help in this shot.
Still great work.

[Kutkin]

Thanks for the comments:)

You are right. I needed to extend that reflection pass and I made it very quickly and loosly.

In the final I think it won't be that wide. I think about half the way between the wide screen and the non-wide screen image.


cheers

[madcan]

Hi everybody,

I just uploaded one of the composited cockpit videos to the server. It's here. (http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/efegorusalanimda_large.mov) I think that was one of the most fun works in this movie :)

Also thanks you softdistortion, I remembered to put a reflection of the pilot on the compositing :)

Cheers

[Kutkin]

The shot looks nice!
It needs to be more contrasted, but I think it's mainly because of the codec.

http://www.rybarstvi-hodonin.cz/kutkin_web/matte/images/latest5.jpg
Does it look better cropped like this?


cheers

[softdistortion]

It looks like this is going to be a tense shot? Just guessing form the look on his face...a really wide shot looks nice, but will loose some tension imo.

Also, by cropping even more and you have lots of room off frame to add essential camera vibration/shake/jolts.

[madcan]

Hi softdistortion,

Thanks for crits, they are always welcome and you were right actually. There are four shots of the pilot. They are here (and corrected as Kutkin suggested):
1 (http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/efegorusalanimda_large.mov)
2 (http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/efebune_large.mov)
3 (http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/efepolen2_large.mov)
4 (http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/efeirtifakaybediyor_large.mov)

So in second shot, he sees something strange and it must be a tighter shot, you are absolutely right. I will re-render it with a tighter frame. I am just not sure about fourth, in it the vehicle is going down but I think it can be a wider shot. I think I will decide on that after it's before and after shots are done and edited.

Thanks again.

[Kutkin]

Working on the last view of the city:
http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/dom_night_l4%2Bcops_web1.jpg
Hope you guys like it.

Cheers
-Pavel

[JIII]

It feels like the grain is too high on the live action elements. It's important to add some grain/depth/blur to get the elements to work together but if you think about a photograph there is usually more grain in the distance with less in the foreground. It seems to be a bit un-natural with the extreme grain in the foreground, and less in the BG.

Just my thoughts,

It looks good,

-J3

[JIII]

Also, consider the source of your lighting. The live action figures are lit primarially from one direction, almost as if by moonlight. The city is very bright, and almost uniformly surrounding the figures. I think that if a rimlight could be simulated on the figures, or the lights of the city brought down it would be good. THink about a big big city like New York, it's never that dark on the top of buildings because of the insane lights of the city, and the bounce off the clouds.

Think about your lighting dude, but it does look good.

[Kutkin]

Hi John!
Thanks for your feedback.
The foreground is of very poor quality and I didn't want to spoil also the rest of the image by all the grain.
The foreground is just for getting the idea. There is supposed to be different foreground with different lighting and I suppose there is some lightsource on the left. I can assure you that there will be a lightwrap arround the foreground - Alican has already showed me some compositing tests and it looks nice.

cheers

[JIII]

Good stuff man :-)

[madcan]

Hi everybody,

Our visual work is almost done and now we've started taking renders and making corrections and adding some absent materials etc.

Here is something I wanted to share, final building collapse. (http://www.babun.org/hakimiyet/cg/binayikil_large.mov)

There will be some more elements and particles added into that but you can get the idea.

[Kutkin]

Here's the finished version of the last view of the city:
http://sweb.cz/Animos_PC/images/Tvorba/dom_web_med.jpg

[madcan]

Hi everyone,

We've finished up the movie and it will be online on September 1st. But we've opened up it's web page. You can check it here:

http://www.dominationthemovie.com

[madcan]

Hi Guys,

Today, at last, we've put the movie online!

Now you can watch it on www.dominationthemovie.com .

I hope you like it. We've tried to do the best with what we got and I hope that we will do better next time :)

I can't thank enough to people who collaborated on this project. It was a very special and nice time to work with all of you.

Cheers to everyone!

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