Mega Robot Returns

[zkanal]

Friggin amazing! I love it all :)

[Clawsson]

Wooeooeoeow...

thats awesome..

great job dudes.

//Clabbe k**

[Skletsko]

Great work guys! Really impressive! :)

/Kristian
Mad Crew

[pigbelly]

Love it, two gigantic thumbs up guys..
If you have time post a "behind the scens", would be great to learn how you did this???

cheers
/Tommie

[AlliS]

HAHA Wickid Guys! yeah post some behind the scene stuff with the crew in the underpants or something! Should get ourselfs a Mojito tommorow to celebrate this baby!
see ya soon!

Salu!:bounce:

[mackster]

Shit! Det var grymt bra gjort!

Feta credz till er alla!!

[Morten_Jensen]

skit bra Mr. Hunt :)

Greetings from Radar...

[Reeder113]

Well, I wish that was mine, because then I would AUTOMATICALLY get a freaking job!! Very nice!!

[danjael]

As skön film dudes!

/daniel

[Sniffet]

Really great work there!!! :scream: The robot design is flawless and overall a really impressive piece!! Wish you all kaktus people the best ;)

/Pepps

[Goro]

hahaha awesome! Great rendering and hilarious ending! 5stars

[eburdeinick]

JAJAJAJAJA ! very nice ! I loved it. The only crit is that the rock should do more damage to the car (blow the windows out), but even like it is I think is great !!!
GREAT JOB ! Love tho robot and the whole model and render

[Silverwing]

Wow this is amazing!
Absolutely great work.
I love the phantastic VFX
and the amazing animation
of the robot. 5*

Thumbs up!

[Thell]

ruskigt sköna ljud o klockrent slut =D

bra jobbat grabbar

[Bluder]

really nice jobb guys =)

[MonteCristo]

ahahaha AMAZING!
the car crash feels not the same quality of the rest.
Anyway coooooollll job!

-Monte

[madeofpoly]

Awesome work guys! poor dog...

Luis

[madeofpoly]

Awesome work guys! poor dog...

Luis

[dmc3d]

Hey Guys

thats a wesome job guys. Very well done. I like the composition and the and , sooo funny. The only think that catch my eyes is the car when he kicked , and the car still intact. The other thing, i think that could be cool when he looks to the windown, could have a dog there, will be fun.
But anyways very good job guys.Congrats

[Rafael Braga]

wow!
Awesome Job!!

Really crazy piece man!!

A big referece to me!

So, I would like to know about the car, is it 3d? or its just picture with matte painting tecnhiques?

Making of please! haha

I loved the robot :)

Cheers!

[Trapper]

Is that the dreadnaught from warhammer 40k?

[JRBRAZ]

Really great job!!!

The composition and the animation is amazing :beer:

Can you made a making of for us?? hehe

[Chagidiel]

Skål och hurra! :bounce:
Nu får det fan bli frontpage för Kaktus, annars är det nåt lurt med moddarna.


SHAAA-LALA!

[jamesjhunt]

Thanks ever one for your kind comments!

If I or anyone else from the team has some time over we will put
together a "behind the scenes" clip for your viewing.

To answer Rafael Bragas question, the car is a camera mapped
photograph on a 3D car model.

For all the swedish replies: Tack alla ni också! :)

[Heber]

got a good laugh at that ,
very nice work.

[clodhopper]

that whole clip was very well executed, If you have the time for the "behind the scenes"clip, I would definitely watch it

[dnk]

LOL :applause:
Great work! 5 stars :thumbsup:

[vectorkim]

very good job! http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/icons/icon13.gifhttp://forums.cgsociety.org/images/icons/icon13.gifhttp://forums.cgsociety.org/images/icons/icon13.gifhttp://forums.cgsociety.org/images/icons/icon13.gifhttp://forums.cgsociety.org/images/icons/icon13.gif

[abob6210]

Super nice!

[solke]

Det var ju en förträfflig robot! Very nice. +++++

/M

[Scob]

HAHAHA so funny..
And very nice shading and rendering...
Impressive...
Cheers

[janak]

Cool,

Nice work guys!

Except for him being a bit on the stiff side and some weight issues I think it looks great!

Cheers,
Janak

[Cageman]

Funny and well executed!

Bra jobbat killar! :)

[Janz]

Hey James. It's nice to see that you get to animate robots for a change ;) Great work, all of you.

/kasper

[dArignac]

Great work and very funny :)

[izarpicture]

absolutly great guys ! 5 stars right away

its a little master piece of texturing and rendering ! i m very much expecting
the " behind the scenes" !:bounce: And that's a wonderful robot !

congratulation guys

[Hulken]

Thank´s everybody. It is great to receive so many encouraging comments, it´s highly appreciated:D

Cheers
Dan

[danne_n]

:) Very nice!

I like the whole thing, very complete!

Maybe it would have been even better as mentioned earlier to have the dog visible on the balcony or something to accentuate the source of annoyance!


Vi får dra ihop allt folk och dricka bärs nån dag!!

/Daniel

[ExtremeParanoia]

This is one of the best VFX shots I have seen in a while... Well done guys!

[Junkoman]

Its a job well done guys :thumbsup: Looking forward to the "making".

[Poser_One]

Yee... fun to watch. Great work guys.

[stooch]

the dog was my favorite part. i hate loud dogs and its silence was very satisfying...

[totochi1231]

oh!!! man, it is so funny and well done
awesome
keep it up

[qup]

holy shit... that was almost too good.. haha.. nice one

[Capn_Camo]

Oh man that was truly awesome!

My crits are these (if they haven't been said already):

- The apartment exploding was done very well
- The robot is simplistic in design yet nicely detailed. It's a character you can instantly like
- The falling over and car flying into the distance rocked!!

- when the boulder falls on the blue car, there is very little movement in the suspension. It seems very jagged, plus the glass cracks over 1 frame or so... maybe even crack the windshield too
- when the MASSIVE robot falls over, there is zero movement from the cars around. Something THAT big would surely make them jump a little! Also, i'd have some of the lower level glass panels fracturing. Something that big would cause a wicked pulse which would ripple out. Might be a nice little feature that helps sell the weight of the big guy!
- I dont think you need the camera zoom in the beginning. Although it shows details on the robot It seems a little confusing that it would zoom in and then suddenly cut back. Keeping it as a still shot might be best.

Keep on rockin!! :buttrock:

[webhead]

Nice compositing work, nice camera work, and nice details on the robot texture. I really got the feeling there was a giant robot standing there. Good fun - I loved it!

[Fess]

The lighting is wonderful on that short. :bounce:
Was it chrome ball data?
I hope to bring my lighting skill to this level in the future.....

-Fess

[Obaid3DFX]

WOW...

This reminds us of old days....

great animation

thumbs up :thumbsup:

[ParamountCell]

haha that was amazing, how can you go wrong with giant robots?

[stooch]

haha that was amazing, how can you go wrong with giant robots?

they can hurt your dog??

[Jadetiger]

Holy crap! Is that the dogs body that lands on the car? I can't really tell. Either way though, very funny, great job.

[klingos]

Skit cool ! Jag gillar Kong grejjen.

[jamesjhunt]

So here you have it, the awaited Behind-the-Scenes! :)


http://www.bockstyre.com/james/mega_robot_returns/1.jpg
One of many original photos

http://www.bockstyre.com/james/mega_robot_returns/2.jpg
Robot pass

http://www.bockstyre.com/james/mega_robot_returns/3.jpg
Robot rigg and mesh

http://www.bockstyre.com/james/mega_robot_returns/4.jpg
Motion vectors for motionblur

http://www.bockstyre.com/james/mega_robot_returns/7.jpg
Occlusion pass

http://www.bockstyre.com/james/mega_robot_returns/5.jpg
3D particles and rigid bodies

http://www.bockstyre.com/james/mega_robot_returns/6.jpg
2D particles

//Kaktus Crew

[drossel]

Hey guys!
Thank you for all the positive reactions! Here is some behind the scenes stuff.

About the lighting/comp part. I lit the robot using a dome of directional lights for the ambient part of the light. And as it was a really cloudy day of the photo shoot I only used a very dim area light as a main light.

For reflections we shot a number of reference photos on location and put them on planes in maya in thier respective positions (sort of) and generated a reflection map from them. By fiddeling a bit in photoshop and maya this allowed us to fake hdr reflections.

To integrate the robot into the background i rendered a couple of occlusion passes. The objects were set to only recieve occlusion and not to occlude themselfs as this would produce dubble-shadowing.

Everything was brought into combustion and color corrected to match the background plates. Motionblur was added. And a lot of masking and tweaking was done to make the most of every element.

Hope this explains to some extent how it was done.

Cheers!
Hannes

[AlliS]

what happend with the shots with you darlings in underpants?:sad:

Hannes, we wanna see a team photo!! Haha,
catch you soon baby!:thumbsup:

[drossel]

what happend with the shots with you darlings in underpants?:sad:

Hannes, we wanna see a team photo!! Haha,
catch you soon baby!:thumbsup:
Alli, both you and I know we never wear underpants while making 3d. :buttrock:

[plejboy]

Great work guys!
Love that character!
That ICA sign makes me wanna go back to sweden and buy saltgurka and leverpastej.
Good stuff!

[suds]

loved the end, good job!

[svintaj]

Really nice work! :thumbsup:
You are all so full of talent, I'm proud to know you guys!! :cool:
Keep up the good work, five stars from me!

/ Svante

[JustinHenton]

really nice work, Animation is solid, loved the rendering

[Chagidiel]

I know I said this before (although in swedish), and I am somewhat biased as I know the guys who made it, but why isn't this thing plugged? Mods?

[karabo]

this is high class work guys, well done.

How did you create the motion vector pass?

[JonasK]

Great work! I really enjoyed it.
I'm amazed it hasn't been plugged yet.
/Jonas

[sadicman]

i dont know if you awnser this before but, how long did it took you guys to make that short animation?

it was great

[ENL]

WoW...all I can say...

[muetance]

i crazy love it ,very very nice guy

no comment it's perfect

[giobianco]

beautiful job....!!! compliments!!

bye

[jamesjhunt]

karabo: the motion vectors was render with help of a shader you can download here:
http://www.impresszio.hu/szabolcs/MentalRay/lm_2dmvMayaFiles.htm

To be able to use the renders in your composite program you'll have to have
reel smart motion blur installed. You can download a demo of it here:
http://www.revisionfx.com/products/rsmb/

sadicman: we worked on and off on it for about 5 weeks.

Hope these were the answers you were looking for!

//James

[crazybread]

very well_done! I wish it was longer, with more stuff happening (its that good!) :thumbsup:

cb

[RobertoOrtiz]

Great work.

plugged

-R

[ninjaPenguin3d]

I love it !! Rendering, animation, concept, its all great. The hardest laugh I've had all week.

[StefanStavrev]

Wonderfull .

I plan to make my first visual effects baby like this one . A robot in the city :scream:

[Chems]

Amazing work, really super.

Theres just one thing I noticed, there is no reflection of the rocks in the car window, there is in the car paint I can see the larger chunks in the bonnet, but nothing in the windows. And also I noticed on the first view that the dent in the roof of the car is there before the rock hits!


But thats just nit picking, awesome work.

[hrgiger]

Wow, great job.

My only crit is that I wished it had been an annoying kid instead of a dog.

[Kei-Acedera]

Fantastic work!! Short and Sawwweeeeetttt!!

[digital-bobert]

Such a cool little film! I love the robot design.

[jammin]

oh man, that's sweet -great job!

[darthmaya]

Fantastic work!
I enjoyed it greatly, I think I am now inspired to go and try to comp something in. :scream:

[Abiy]

Awesome awesome piece! that's pretty evident. But one thing that i noticed was that, nothing happens to the blue car(except for it moving forward), when smashed by the robot's foot. If the whole back portion of the car kind of (or slightly) gets deformed(crashed), it would add a little more realism to it. don't get me wrong, its great comp, just being "neat-Picky". Good job!

[Mechis]

Wow... can you give a few more details?

How did you do the destruction of the building? Did you recreate it in 3d and then break it up into pieces and run a simulation?

Also, how did you do the car stuff? Getting hit by a rock and the machine stepping on it-- was the car completely 3d?

Thanks!
~Mechis

[mattie]

Really impressive! 5*! :thumbsup:

[Fjompe]

Cool! Frontpage :)

[vfx]

Excellet compositing work.. so nice when you have a small team with each having a speciality... the shot is excellently planned and the camera movement generated using only stills is especially well done!

Congrats and the praise is well deserved!

P.S. This is by no means to be taken in offence, but this is better than anything on the Kaktus website... those darn clients and their opinons! - Let the artist flourish - afterall he's the one with the creative hand!!

[PavelPetrenko]

WOW! so realistyc! :thumbsup: Very good, job!
Lighting, shading, and idea!

[Visor66]

hey guys,

congratz, this is a really really nice integration work and also a very funny film. Could you maybe spread some more details about how you did the destruction part of the building within maya? Did you use a plugin (blastcode)? I would be really interested in that. For a longer time now I try learn how to destruct models within maya with no good solution so far. so pllllzzzzz, tell us.

Thanks you!

Great work

[agasco]

Awesome man! congratulations to all, really good job with everything, i love when the robot whaits to listen the dog, really cool.

Cheers!

[PedramK]

Haha fan va bra :D
tight avslutning dessutom! thumbs up dudes!

[WhItY]

Very cool und funny :) Like it!

Cheers

[bananamation]

Thank you all for the positive responce to our animation.
A few of you have been asking how we did the destruction of the building.
I thought I should give you a hint on how we did that.

First we built up the trashed house as a 3d-model and
cameramapped the texure to it.
http://www.janimation.se/files/megarobot/wrackedhouse.jpg

Then built all the bigger wallpieces that was supposed to get
smacked and mapped the texture to those too.
http://www.janimation.se/files/megarobot/wrackparts.jpg

Made all wallpieces to rigid bodies and used some forces and
fields to make them react and drop to the ground.
http://www.janimation.se/files/megarobot/blast.jpg

Finally we added alot of instance-particles for the smaller
parts and a layer of 2d particles for the smoke and dust effect.

[peXel]

Really impressive! Great work!


Best
peXel

[Hideyoshi]

I laughed my ass off, that was really funny!!! :D
Totally wicked CGI here, modelling, rendering, animation! WOW!

[MrElmo]

real great stuff, i really like the rendering, can you post the renderpasses? please?

[MasterZap]

Lysande, sickan, lysande!

Enda mikroklaget jag kan ge är väl att roboten borde få på sig liiite mer occlusion från huset, och huset bakom borde ta emot lite occlusion från roboten. Annars helt lysande med tanke på att det är från foton! +++

:thumbsup::thumbsup:

Hoppas det var mental ray? :twisted:

Great work guys.

/Z

[LOTK]

Very nice job guys,

Camera and lighting matching, and a good fun factor for a short clip.


well done!;)

LOTK

[Visor66]

thanks ginga tiger for the explanation of the destruction! very helpfull.

Greetz

[PhuongDPh]

great work !, remind me of AA paper advert animation at CG Choice
5 stars

- when the MASSIVE robot falls over, there is zero movement from the cars around. Something THAT big would surely make them jump a little!

I agree.http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/icons/icon10.gif

[willbrown]

This is HILARIOUS! kUDOS!

[gaiXyn]

very awesome jobs guys!!....some lil details here are there are missing ( like the two cars to the right/front of view should shake a lil with all that walking and falling ) ....and like what was mentioned before about the rock hitting the car not being up to par w/ everything else.....but that's nikPicking.... you guys did say it was done between projects.....so well done!!! :thumbsup:

5tars~

ltr-

edit:: opps!!..that's what I get for not reading all the post, look like someone beat me to it...lol...

[chlywly]

Thought that was totally awesome, I gotta say!

[snowkiwi]

What an inspiring piece. I didn't know that 3D/live-motion composites can be that good. I really like how the robot interacts with the environment. It gives it way more believability. It deserves more than 5 stars.

[MarkusM]

NICE!!!

Lysande helt enkelt. Klart man se sma saker, men pa det hela sa var det en rolig ide som ni fick komma till liv. Grattis!

Markus

[whatstrue]

Love how you mixed and matched a Warhammer dreadnought with a Warmachine Warjack. Great combination :thumbsup:

[urgaffel]

Haha, en robot mosar en gammal ostermalmtants irriterande hund. Ack sa passande :D Tyckte att jag kande igen Gardet fran bilden och mycket riktigt, ICA Vartavagen var det. Awesome jobb guys!

Damn you Plejboy, now I want leverpastej and saltgurka too and maybe a Skogaholms limpa :sad: I guess it's about time to order some food from http://www.icasvenskmat.se/ (very useful for all you swedes living abroad :))

[IceFlame]

Software used? The animation is really great, i love it
I'd like to know wich soft you used to make this project. For my animation i use Xsi and maya for compos and rendering

[Fox]

looks really good !! 5+

[ElFuego]

Nice! Really nice animation, model and compositing. I really like when there are some WIP images too -> sharing information and tips for making these kind of animations are always neat! go Kaktus!

[FRENZIEDmind]

Hey Stealth, do you by chance have a smaller res version (like half the size or something)? My wimpy computer is not powerful enough to play that QT clip.

[Naseem]

Stunning work, it looks very professional. as early comments mentioned that the windows on the buildings and the car should blow cos of the stress and shockwave impact, if not then make the building's window's reflect a bit of the falling rocks. Other than these miner details the movie is just mind blowing......gr8 work :buttrock:

[phill-h]

Very good. Loved the the design & movement of the robot. Maybe some more camera wobble (like you used in the zoom in shot) to create the feeling of somebody using a hand held camcorder or modile phone camera.

More please!

[loocas]

Awesome and funny! :D

I loved the animation!

There are a few technical bits, like the window glass doesn't shatter, the cables and cords on the robot actually interpenetrate the bot's arms and the low AA samples producing flickering in some shots, mainly visible on the bot's chest armor and the car on the street should get crushed and the windows get shattered around.

But that's just minor stuff...

http://forums.cgsociety.org/images/rating/rating_5.gif 'coz I really dig it! :thumbsup:

[AceVCold]

Nice blend of awesome power and humor. I love it. You got a chuckle out of me when he slipped on the audi. Nice work guys. I hope I will have the ability to make something of this caliber one day.

[Mirwen]

what I think? That this is wonderful! 5 stars of course... It's funny and looks real.

[paultheplumber]

Wonderful characterization!

[wesware]

Congradulations, that is just awesome.
Very funny and well executed.
I love the little moment when he first looks right and sees the ledge (that he punches). There's a little slight adjustment to his pose that is great.

I wonder, since you have the comical eye pop, would it be funny if he hung in the air just for a milisecond before he hits the ground.

Great work!

[lmoorefx]

Great job, nice attention to detail.

[Kid-Mesh]

That was hilliarious, great work and composition.

[Papa Lazarou]

Rock on! Terrific characterisation. I had no idea I was going to laugh out loud at this... but I did. Great gag and excecution.

[UniqueCharacter]

so awesome, i'm going to show this at school

[Darkflame]

Excelent work, very well done indeed.
Short and sweet, and thus perfect.

You should upload it to video sites so less fortunate/less technical public at large can see it :)


Id recomend www.stage6.com, as (unlike every other video site on the net), it dosnt transcode everything to flash. Upload a divx, and anyone can see it in the quality it was on your computer. (have it 1080p if you want.. :p v)

[caulfield]

what a load of garbage.

[RobertoOrtiz]

I have to admit that I love this little short.

Not only that butthis animation is a good "proof of concept"
for a upcoming FXWIars mini challenge I have had in mind for a while.

Again, great work.
-R

[scootch]

that was amazing. only thing that really bugged me was now the cars didn't move. I think it would of been great if the cars shook a bit when steps were being taken and a good jolt when the robot falls down. would of added a lot to the effect of his size.

[theabyss]

I never really post much in the animation area - but
this one got my attention.
I watched the movie and i really liked it.
Just small details that made it look very realistic like the windows
in the back that reflect the robot.
Nice one! :thumbsup:
But did the barking dog survive? :)

[Raul-Reznek]

really enjoyed this, funny, smart, well executed. congrats!

[D-E-A-N]

really funny stuff, great work guys! :thumbsup:

[Ice Czar]

just love the body language when it first hears the dog :applause:

[Torch]

Amazing job man. A great compositing work. I love the robot rigging. Very efficient. Congrats!

[jamesjhunt]

Thanks again everyone! The amount of replies are overwhelming!

Darkflame: Here is one of many links to a lower quality version of the clip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZHk76Cl3fA (I've also posted it on the front page)

It's crazy how fast it has spread on the internet! Did a search the other day
and found the post on more than 150 pages. Just on Youtube I've seen the
clip uploaded four times and that does not include anyone from Kaktus Film.

//James

[NikAnd]

Superb work guys...
The rendering & animation is perfect.

[Ramtin]

I Just Love It So Much Man .Great .Fantastic .:eek:

[akrause]

nicely done : )

composited well, animations work well;

: )

[Torch]

Hahahahaha. I'm watching again showing to my friends. What a bully silly robot man!!! Great short story!! Congrats again.

[Ice Czar]

It's crazy how fast it has spread on the internet! Did a search the other day
and found the post on more than 150 pages. Just on Youtube I've seen the
clip uploaded four times and that does not include anyone from Kaktus Film.



I ran a few search queries after I watched too,
but Im glad I saw the high quality version here first ;)
its still funny and impressive
but most of those copies really lack the finer details
(most of the motion blurs vs focus contrast for instance )
I actually downloaded it here and watched it frame by frame
(several times) great job :thumbsup:

[zuraq]

Fantastic, i love it, no static, no blur, just clean as a whistle, and the music really puts the scene going, kinda reminds me of a dreadnought from warhammer, overzised in a city block, going haywire, and then it slips on the car, no more robo, pointed out with the eye poping out, and smoke and emitters going bzzzz... poink.

keep em coming, hilarius

[Mendocino]

Excellent clip! Nicely made, and very funny too! Truly inspirational! Well done!

[RobertoOrtiz]

Well congrats on making the frontpage of the US Yahoo page.

[jamesjhunt]

Thanks RobertoOrtiz!

We are all amazed over how many people have seen our clip!

//Kaktus Crew

[arran1]

ha ha! Excellent! really clever nice simple idea. good job!:beer: :beer: :beer:

[alnori]

for the last three weeks evry time i bring my 3y old son to my place for the weekend he ask me to watch ths robot.

it would be great if we could one day see this robot in a future movie or a cartoon serie.

hope you take my suggestion into consideration.

big mony

big thanks

lycka till

[HenningK]

Swee-hee-heet.
-hen

[DimitrisLiatsos]

This is SOOO FUnnnyyy...hahahahah...it really made my day...the end is so funny...and the animation of the robot is just GREAT...hahahaha..thanks guys...so funny clip....OMG! :)

5 stars from me....

[quality]

There are a few technical bits, like the window glass doesn't shatter, the cables and cords on the robot actually interpenetrate the bot's arms

My biggest critics have already been said. I think the one that bugged me the most was the interpenetration of the cables (this is too nice a piece to let something like that happen!) Other than these few things it rocks guys. Nice stuff.

[Fabri17]

great
2 words
NO WORDS

[tomassalles]

Nice job. Awesome CG - Good lighting/compositing, good idea and great animation.

I would just try to put a bigger quantity of smaller debris falling from the building.To fake small broken pieces of the walls. It could be done with simplle particles (even small spheres) with a slight different sizes+motion blur. Overall it is top notch level...

Keep it like that


Congrats

tomas:)

[fauzi]

someday,i want to achieve something like this

[Eidinger]

wow. it looks great AND is really funny. my favorite short 2007!!!

[Necroskull]

HAHAHAHh you'r a genius!! HHAHHHA great!!! :D

[homer4lyfe]

Sweet Comp! I love the design of the robot.

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