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Droo
09-21-2008, 07:33 PM
http://www.bugsracemovie.com/logo.jpg
Hi

I'd like to present our first animated short film titled "Bugs' Race".
It was created by Ania Jurkiewicz and Andrzej Ellert (myself) as a Bachelor of Science project at Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology (www.pjwstk.edu.pl) in Warsaw, Poland.

We worked on it for over 2 years and did all the steps ourselves - starting from the idea, and the script, through 2d and 3d animatics, modelling, texturing etc. to the final animation, rendering and compositing. The only thing we didn't do is the sound effects and the music which was created by Cafe Ole sound studio in Warsaw. The sound also features a famous Polish actor Arkadiusz Jakubik as the voice of The Snail.

We can't stress it enough that it is our very first serious animation and we had to learn most of the things during this process. We finished it about 8 months ago, and since than we have learned much more, mainly in animation, so we are aware of the many shortcomings in our film. Nevertheless, we are still proud of what we have achieved - having no experience in this matter. We hope you'll enjoy the film. C&C welcome :) !

Official site: www.bugsracemovie.com (http://www.bugsracemovie.com/index_en.html)

You can watch the movie on one of the following places:
Our site (http://www.bugsracemovie.com/watch_en.html) (highest quality)
Vimeo (http://vimeo.com/1772420) (good quality)
Youtube hi-q (http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=zw9AZ39s5LA&fmt=18) (medium quality)
Youtube lo-q (http://pl.youtube.com/watch?v=zw9AZ39s5LA) (low quality)

http://www.bugsracemovie.com/skl1.jpg
http://www.bugsracemovie.com/skl2.jpg
http://www.bugsracemovie.com/skl3.jpg

as for the technical details, we used:
mostly Autodesk Maya 8
some Zbrush for modelling
Real Flow for water simulations
After Effects for composition
Particle Illusion for smoke effects
and of course lots of Photoshop

p.s. thanks cgtalk for all the help we received on these forums during the creation of our film :)

yoozco
09-21-2008, 10:26 PM
hej, piękna robota! jestem zazdrosny.
fajny design postaci, a slimaki przypominaja aardmanowe (to akurat plus)

Giap
09-22-2008, 01:54 AM
it's very well done :D I wish this short film will be on the front page soon :D

cheers.

Aben-Athar
09-22-2008, 07:43 AM
Great short! Really funny and animation was spot on! Hope to see more of you work!

monkey-sage
09-22-2008, 07:43 AM
Hilarious, the ants kinda sounded like Ewoks. Much laughter, great appeal, good characters.

Droo
09-23-2008, 04:02 PM
hi huys

thanks for all the comments so far.
It's really great to hear such positive comments. We couldn't wait for our movie to be finally done and published

@yoozco : Dzieki :), slimaki pewnie podswiadomie byly wzorowane na Aardmanowych ;)

goodvibrato
09-23-2008, 04:28 PM
That was really funny. There were several good moments, but I liked it when it would cut to the spiders laughing at everybody and seeing all the tricks the snail could come up with. Great work.

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