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Chrike

06-18-2008, 03:43 AM

Hi everyone,

this is my first showreel I put together after I finished my third term project at uni.
The production time was around 9 weeks next to all the other uni work, Software used was:
Shake for pre-compositing
After Effects for final compositing
Houdini for the tornado particle system
Maya for the 3D part of the matte paintings
Photoshop for the matte painting itself
Vegas for the editing

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/7186/reelshot1st0.jpg

http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3523/reelshot2zi1.jpg

The reel with a breakdown can be found on my website www.chrike.de (http://www.chrike.de)
There´s also higher res/quality version available for download there.
Edit: there seems to be a problem with IE7; will be fixed asap! Till then:
Here´s the video on vimeo:
http://www.vimeo.com/1190905

I´d like to say a special thanks to the guys in the Digital Matte Painting forum here, who helped me a lot initially getting my head around the process :)

In fact I investigated the whole 3D Matte Painting pipeline as part of the personal research unit @ uni and I made a website poster out of all the infos I got.
It describes the technical process involved in setting everything up in MAYA up to the point where you can export it to Houdini.
Please feel free to read through it if interested! It´s located here: http://nccasymposium.bmth.ac.uk/kesler_christian/index.html

with loads of screenshots. It´s basically set up like a tutorial :)

Comments and Crits welcome!

Regards,

Chris

mohsen123

06-18-2008, 04:59 AM

I like your arts .
but in "showreel" page my internet explorer error and close !
I use IE 7 .... can you link a mov or flv of your showreel ?
I hope to watch this

REGARDs

Chrike

06-18-2008, 05:53 AM

oh hey, I´m sorry. however, thanks for pointing it out, wasn´t aware of a problem with IE7!
Here is the video on vimeo: :D

http://www.vimeo.com/1190905

StevenPLai

06-18-2008, 07:02 AM

wow that is really good compositing, keep up the good work

mohsen123

06-18-2008, 03:47 PM

Hi.
very nice .
best regards.

Chrike

06-18-2008, 08:32 PM

thanks a lot hitori and mohsen! :)

paulmcg1

07-19-2008, 06:38 PM

The tornado could use work but I really think the atmosphere you've created, the mood, or the feeling from watching this is great! It really makes me feel like Im witnessing some bad weather in some busy city like New York. I think you've done a good job on creating that feeling within the viewer.

TAVO

07-19-2008, 10:34 PM

that is a great vfx scene, i really loved it, great work man. :deal:

pockn

07-20-2008, 10:13 AM

cool
nice done!:)

Silverwing

07-20-2008, 01:01 PM

Very well done. I like the look and feel of it!
Great matte painting and ofcause compositing.
Keep it up!

redbyte

07-20-2008, 01:35 PM

I like everything except the tornado... I'm sorry that sounds mean because I know that's the main feature, but it just looked like an unshaded brown blob swirling on the screen.

But for 6 weeks I definately couldn't do any better.

The matte painting, atmosphere, editing, compositing... practically everything else was excellent!! Keep up the good work :)

Chrike

07-31-2008, 06:36 PM

thanks a lot for the comments guys, and for the crits as well :)

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