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meshman

10-23-2006, 09:25 AM

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Title: KONG "SYLVESTER"
Name: Peter Aversten
Country: Sweden
Software: Maya, Photoshop, Shake, ZBrush

From a commercial we did, Its for a gaysite here in sweden and the ape doesent go for the girl in the end. We was aming for the 1933 look so I animated in stop motionstyle on two,s.
I modeled the Ape using maya and rendered with mentalray, I used shake to comp.

The commercial was awarded a ROY award here in sweden recently in the category best animation and special effects
with the motivation " With great feeling and expertise the winner has manage to combine technique and idea to a perfect film"
pardon my translation from swedish

The idea was on Patrik Forsbergs behalf
The commercial was directed by Mauricio Molinari
The DOP was Paul Evans
And I did the Animation and special effects..

Hope you like it... And take a look at the final movie and behind the scenes below:

SYLVESTER_MOVIE (http://www.aversten.com/SYLVESTER.htm)
Behind_the_scenes (http://www.aversten.com/behingkong.htm)

visionmaster2

10-23-2006, 07:12 PM

the pictures are really really great ! ( i can't acces tou your video, what is the format ? )

:thumbsup:

Chuppa

10-23-2006, 07:38 PM

Great! Especially the bit where Kong first appears looks neat, very similar to the original.
Very nice work!

meshman

10-23-2006, 07:56 PM

Thanks!
The format is quicktime mp4
Do you have the latest quicktime installed then it should work

captainpopo

10-23-2006, 09:17 PM

ses riktigt bra ut, really like it, keep it up

JWRodegher

10-23-2006, 11:02 PM

I think I smell frontpage here?
Great work, though I would like to see improved a little the facial expresions.

Shutao

10-24-2006, 02:42 AM

realy
really
reallly 5strs:thumbsup:

meshman

10-24-2006, 07:30 AM

Thanks Shutao,

LikuidSnake Thanks, I tried with more meaty face expression but when i studied the original 33 kong he seemed quite stiff to me

captainpopo, Thanks, tackar bugar och bockar mig.. är du från sverige kanske?

mrtprodz

10-24-2006, 07:37 AM

hahaha awesome!! :thumbsup: :applause:
I love the stop motion look where Kong appears in the beginning.

meshman

10-24-2006, 08:18 AM

Glad you liked it MistaT

chalkman

10-24-2006, 02:15 PM

Excellent work, top drawer!

Really captured the flavor of the original. Four Stars. :applause:

Cheers,

David

meshman

10-24-2006, 02:19 PM

Thanks, Thath makes al the late nights and tight deadline worth while..

Excellent work, top drawer!

Really captured the flavor of the original. Four Stars. :applause:

Cheers,

David

bitBrain

10-24-2006, 04:39 PM

Haha :) Thanks for putting a smile on my face!

meshman

10-24-2006, 05:15 PM

You are welcome bitbrain :-)

Haha :) Thanks for putting a smile on my face!

visionmaster2

10-24-2006, 06:09 PM

this is really good and fun ! the stop motion is well done. and thank you for the behind the scene video .is it possible to know, how much time you pass on it ?

:buttrock:

meshman

10-24-2006, 06:54 PM

From start to finnish about a month but it was a lowbudget project cause we funded the production so when higher prio project came up, it got higher prio The project realy came to be cause Patrik at our work won a competition here in sweden regarding companies or organisations that dident have exposure on tv so basicaly we won tv time but sylvester itself did not have the money to fund the shoot and effects so we did it ourself for them just for the sake of it. We have most of the camera equipent inhouse so it was just the people during the shooting day and my time that realy costed in the end but it was quite fun....

Cheers
Peter

snabald

10-24-2006, 07:30 PM

That was great, you did a really good job of making Kong look like he was animated with stop motion!

meshman

10-24-2006, 07:33 PM

Thanks snabald, Steped keyframes is the key and animate every two frame like they did in the good old day..

That was great, you did a really good job of making Kong look like he was animated with stop motion!

visionmaster2

10-24-2006, 08:36 PM

Thank you for this complete answer meshman..

meshman

10-24-2006, 08:42 PM

Dont mention it, Its good to practice writing from time to time and English its not my main laguage so any typo is to be blamed on my english teacher.. hehe :-)

cheers
Peter

Thank you for this complete answer meshman..

akaiwa

10-24-2006, 09:20 PM

Great commercial, looked and felt very stop motion, and integrated great.

Definitely outstanding work.

meshman

10-25-2006, 08:00 AM

Thanks akaiwa

Great commercial, looked and felt very stop motion, and integrated great.

Definitely outstanding work.

Rapiernet

10-25-2006, 08:23 AM

Grattis! Cool...

gster123

10-25-2006, 10:20 AM

Great work!

Saw this on your site a while back and it knocked me for six both the first time and the second!

meshman

10-25-2006, 11:12 AM

Tack Tomas,

Thanks gster123
Glad to hear

Great work!

Saw this on your site a while back and it knocked me for six both the first time and the second!

JWRodegher

10-26-2006, 05:26 AM

Thanks Shutao,

LikuidSnake Thanks, I tried with more meaty face expression but when i studied the original 33 kong he seemed quite stiff to me

I forgot for a second that you were recreating the old kong, I saw the expression and though it could be way better (and having the rest of the work as reference also though you could do it a lot better). Now I remember what the target was, so it´s fine! Nice work man! :)

meshman

10-27-2006, 10:19 PM

Thanks man..

Cheers
Peter

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