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fxnut
05-28-2003, 02:33 PM
Hi guys, just wanted to share this with you. It's something I did last year as a private project, and I thought it was about time that I should show somebody! It's not perfect but I'm pretty pleased with it.

You can see the full animation of this at my website here:

http://www.andynicholas.com/thezone/index.php?area=gallery&subject=movies&page=1


where you can also find a complete shot breakdown.

The animation is also included in my showreel which you can find here:

http://www.andynicholas.com/thezone/index.php?area=gallery&subject=movies&page=0


Regards

Andy

http://www.andynicholas.com/thezone/content/threed/Composite.jpg
SimonReeves
05-28-2003, 06:22 PM
Great job!

the animations in the demo reel look great, especially liked the car sat at the side of the road
:thumbsup:
Entangle
05-28-2003, 08:17 PM
wow nice work man. I especially love the comp, it really looks good and pretty real too. The sound isnt quite in sequence though.
Shimano
05-28-2003, 10:45 PM
that's really cool work. Overall it looks very realistic. I think there's not enough occlusion on the bottom of the tires and on the road where it meets the ground. :applause:


Eric Tang
fxnut
05-28-2003, 10:51 PM
Thanks for your comments guys.

Entangle, you said the sound isn't quite in sync, which part did you mean? Can you be more specific?

Eric, yeah fair comments, I noticed the other day that the shadow around the wheels could have been slightly darker. Well, that's one more render pass then! ;)

Regards

Andy
cyberjunkie
05-29-2003, 08:29 AM
OMG I LOVE IT! :applause: :buttrock: :bounce:
nosepick
05-29-2003, 02:50 PM
Very nice work!, can you tell us wich soft did you use for the
camera matching?

And (if itīs posible) a brief description about how did you animate the mitsubishi, the animation looks very realistic!
PanzerBoy
05-29-2003, 04:36 PM
That's cool! Nice work!
fxnut
05-30-2003, 10:00 AM
Hi Nosepick, I didn't actually use any camera matching software, cause I didn't shoot the backplate live. It's just a single hires image and the camera moves were put on after - mostly in After Effects.

As far as the animation of the 4x4 goes, it was just done by hand and a lot of tweaking. I've got a degree in Physics so I did find that it helped a little when trying to figure out the behaviour of the car. I used lots of dummy objects to split up the motion of the car body as much as possible (including having a dummy object at the front so that I could easily adjust the amount of oversteer that was apparent). The wheel positions were animated using a plugin which I wrote for Lightwave to calculate the position where they hit the road. The wheel rotation was done by another plugin I wrote.


Incidentally, I'm on the lookout for freelance work at the moment. So if anyone needs anything like this or other work doing (artwork or programming), then contact me via my website at www.andynicholas.com.

Regards

Andy
fxnut
06-04-2003, 01:15 PM
I've just written a tutorial for anyone who's interested, on how I set up the lighting for this scene in Lightwave. You can find it here:

http://www.andynicholas.com/thezone/index.php?area=art

Regards

Andy
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