What Lies Beneath - VFX Challenge - Victor Throe EvilAsSin - Gepetto & Son

[Tuqui-tuqui]

Gepetto & Son

hehe... can't wait to see the results. Good luck!!! :beer:

[victor throe]

aaaaaahhhh






would love some feedback on it

850k divx
http://www.apxc20.dsl.pipex.com/VFX_VICTOR_DIVX.avi
or 10mb quicktime
http://www.apxc20.dsl.pipex.com/VFX_VICTOR.mov

[victor throe]

no comments?

[victor throe]

step one

i only produced 1 sketch...didnt give myself alot of time so it was just to confirm what i wanted to build

[victor throe]

step 2

shoot the action

the auto exposure made it look really 'crap' but i thought id leave it rather than re doing it as it would make the compositing a bit more interesting

[victor throe]

step 3

shoot the plate

[victor throe]

step 4

shot a bit of reference footage of a metal item

[victor throe]

step 5

shot some footage of a shadow for reference

[victor throe]

step 6

i took a load of measurements from the cupboard
and the distance from the lens and rebuilt a very simple version of it it the 3d package

aligned everything up according to my measurements....made a few adjustments because i didnt do it very accurately and applied the plate footage to the objects as a camera map

[victor throe]

step 7

build the robot

basic box modelling

give it the basic for the texture but allowed for tweaking once id put it in the scene

[victor throe]

here is a test render

[victor throe]

here is dave rendered

against action and against black

[victor throe]

here are daves elements

i rendered the eyes out seperately to get the glow in post

[victor throe]

i didnt really do alot in post

added a little noise to match the grainyness of the dv footage

blurred a little

fixed a couple of errors i made in the render

then roto'd out the live action person



technical info:

footage shot on a canon xl1s
3d in max
compositing in afx

[SdFX]

Everyone is thinking creepy and you're going for cute. I like very much, it's very believable anf the animation is great. You'd might like to try turning up the brightness, when checking your final render. The robot show up on top of the actor (you?) for a brief second. But very nice, indeed! :applause:

[victor throe]

no

its not me.......





ive just gone through frame by frame....it doesnt appear to be in front of the person in any frames

wierd


its not that creepy.....look at those lovely baby blue eyes

[SdFX]

Victor, if you look at the picture I've attached you'll see the robot in front of the character...I upped the levels on the pic, but the same thing is noticable when brightness is manipulated...it's not a big thing, but I noticed it in my first viewing.

[victor throe]

aah yes

i was sloppy and thought it wouldnt be noticable for those frames

[Pufferfish]

Nice nice! That was great!

Not much to crit here ...well the hand waving at the end is a bit overacted :)

...but it surely was nice, the robot looks very real.


:thumbsup:

[victor throe]

thanks for the comments

little dave is just glad to have a visitor

[victor throe]

managed to get myself a couple of hours free time

so ill be posting a new version shortly

get rid of some of the errors

stay tuned

[victor throe]

http://www.apxc20.dsl.pipex.com/VFX_VICTOR2_DIVX.avi
http://www.apxc20.dsl.pipex.com/VFX_VICTOR2.mov

here they are

slightly better

curious thing happened

i exported this divx at a smaller resolution and the file size came out larger than the higher resolution version

anyone know why this happened

[victor throe]

final mov submission

550 pixels wide

http://www.apxc20.dsl.pipex.com/VFX_VICTOR2.mov

[Bischofftep]

Nice work here!

I like how the match flare is duplicated in the CG portion... well done.

Good character animation! This is something I need work at. Very cool!

Good luck to you!

[victor throe]

thanks man

[RobertoOrtiz]

Awesome entry!
GREAT JOB!

-R

[victor throe]

and thank you to you too

[Bischofftep]

Hey, Victor:

Noticed that you aren't listed as an official entry on the main Challenge page. Have you tried talking to Lil'Dragon or another moderator to get you up there? You definitely need to have your final stuff seen by folks, it's great.

That and without you there's only 3 final entries. :rolleyes:

Good luck!

[victor throe]

how do i get on the list?

[RobertoOrtiz]

technically speaking you had to setup an entry
before the challenge.

I would contact an admin an ask them for an exception from this rule, since you finished your work before the dateline.

-R

[victor throe]

i must be blind

where does it say you have to register?

also

where is this list?

sorry if its really obvious

cant see the wood for the trees

[Bischofftep]

Originally posted by victor throe
where is this list?


http://www.cgchallenge.com/challenge_view.php?challenge_id=39

That's the official entry spot. I'd strongly suggest talking to the mods/admins about getting on there. This is too good to be missed on a technicality!!

[victor throe]

damn

i had no idea

i still cant see where it says you have to register

bummer

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