Urs_a short film by Moritz Mayerhofer

[calilifestyle]

dang cool. was this all done in Messiah. where did the models come from.

[dobermunk]

Models and rendering were done in LW.

[kungfudork]

Great job! Nice to see messiah out there! I had an easy time migrating from maya to messiah, it's been a lot of fun. Looking forward to seeing some behind the scenes and such! Maybe you could share a rig or two with the messiah community....hehehehe?

[frogchild]

Ah beautiful!





I am filled with both envy and awe.





I am now in awenvey

[moemayerhofer]

Hi there,

my name is Moritz... or just moe :)
I'm the director of Urs. Thanks for the kind words!

'Urs' is my thesis-project at the Filmakademie Baden-Wuerttemberg, a german filmschool.
It's a narrative 10 minute short with mixed techniques.
3d Character-Animation, 2d FX-Animation and a lot of matte-paintings.

I also did a lot of other stuff for the short. Mattepaintings, modeling, animation, compositing... I had help of some really cool guys. One of them is Jonas who did the excellent Rig in pmg messiah.

If you have any questions - feel free to ask them! There are many things to say about the project.

[AIR]

Beautiful!

[proton]

Amazing! I love the mood and over all look!

[BUZZFX]

This is Great! The use of 2D and 3D works well. When will those in North America be able to see the full movie?

[Ulven]

Beautiful stuff. Some really handy scripts on Jonas' site to boot.
Congrats to both of you!

[Ulven]

Some very sweet videos of the rigs on:
http://www.jonasjarvers.com/projects.html

[kungfudork]

WOW!

Just checked out Jonas' site and the vids he has for the Urs rigs. Shows some great stuff with messiah! I definitely want to know more about his setups.

http://www.jonasjarvers.com/projects.html (scroll down to the Urs videos)

Jonas, please tell us more about the rigs. I came to messiah from maya and you seemed to have implemented some stuff that i've missed using cause i didn't know how to do it in messiah.

[Larry_g1s]

Really nice design and mode. :thumbsup:

[Alekzsander]

REALLY NICE , good work ;)

[Djampa]

wow, impressive.

I loved the concepts, there's a lot of weight over shoulders of the character, that's a very wise character conception, both the sketches and the painted concepts are truly a masterclass of production and art.
The story is outstanding, very emotionally powered, the moods and the overall trailer are great.

Brilliant ! Thanks for sharing such a jewel and for posting at FP on CGTalk :)

This kind of artwork is food for our hungry souls :D

My best wishes,

[dobermunk]

Moritz talked with me about his film. If you're interested, I invite you to read at
http://www.drip.de/

[ernpchan]

The backgrounds and sets are amazing.

Any chance of a tutorial on the rigging?

[Rla]

i saw the video and what can i say.. nice work nice work, two thumbs up in my section..lololol

[moemayerhofer]

Hi guys...
I still have to wait for the moderator :)
I'm very, very honored by your great feedback! It's still a young film and I hope that you will see it very soon at a festival around you.
It means a lot to me to get such a great response.
I'm thinking of my new project funny, a bit shorter (than Urs) and in a way more radical.
I have to do my next project because I know that we can rock some really great and moving films. Films that are worth this enornmous effort we all put into those pixels!
Story is essential, but there are even now (in a time when all stories are told) some we can tell. In a way only animation can do. Let's do it!

[BUZZFX]

Wow I just watched the trailer again for the 4th time. There's just so much about this that is appealing, the lighting, music etc. I see a lot of thought was put into the storyboards because every camera angle is spot on.

I especially like the shot where URS is packing his mom up the cliff. It just leaves you wanting more. The illustrative look really adds to the mood of the film too. Please tell me when we can see the finished product in Canada.

[moemayerhofer]

Hi, to everyone who lives in London...
'Urs' will be screened during the 'London International Animation Festival' tomorrow evening (9.00 PM) in the Horse Hospital Cinema. Check http://www.liaf.org.uk/2009/grad.html for more infos.

[Hordak]

Has a fantastic look!

[echoda]

I love the look of this. The story is intriguing as well.

Thanks for sharing!

:thumbsup:

[Pixelclown]

First of all, thank you for the kind respond and feedback!

As there seams to be a big request on the videos I've updated them in a higher resolution.
Just go for http://www.jonasjarvers.com/projects.html. You Maybe have to hit F5..

Thanks a lot to Ulven, Christopher and the whole messiah community for their feedback, help and support. Thinking about it, it was actually very hard to get into messiah for the first time. Now it's almost two years ago. Before that I mainly used 3ds max and Cinema 4D. Besides a little bit XSI, but no Maya at all. Now, after I've worked on Urs for such a long time, I think it was a complete year, I mainly work with Maya. But that's actually not the point at all. Let's face it guys, whatever tool you use, it's the image which counts in the end. Every software package has it's pros and contras and it's just a decision to make which is the best for the image to look right. But that's anothers threads issue.

For Urs I developed all the character rigs, interfaces, scripts and the animation pipeline which was an extra thing with messiah. I learned a lot from rigs I got from the community and therefore I think the best way to thank you would be to share the rigs of Urs as well. We are going to preparing the models so that nobody is going to make a serial ;) but the main functions, interfaces and scripts should be in it. It just will take some time as I'm on vacation for the next two weeks but that makes it even more exciting. I'm thinking also to explain some stuff I did in some little "how to", but that will take some extra time.

And to be serious, I never thought to make it on the front page ... but with messiah everything is possible :D

Thanks again! Jonas

[VrodRick]

Wow, just amazing work! Love the overall style/theme and composition...hats off to you!
Couldn't imaging hauling my mom up a vertical incline like that :)

[eonridr]

That was a really beautiful trailer Moritz, great job! It feels really different and refreshing to see the backgrounds of painting matching so well with the 3d model and animation. :thumbsup:

[KIDI]

Cool designs :applause:
great work, very impressive.

[AnimAitor]

Very inspiring!! Beautiful character designs, sets, lighting, BGs, style... and most important, the story seems interesting! Great work moemayerhofer and the rest of the crew. And it's very nice of you to share the scripts and character models for rigging dissection. It makes me want to try Messiah.

[Jonathan]

That is beautiful work. I love the environment. I've been trying to perfect something like that for some time now. You seem to have mastered it. Bravo. I'm checking out your rigs now. Gotta see what I can learn. :) Keep up the good work.

[dobermunk]

http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=5239
Now as cgSociety feature!

[GregMalick]

This is beautiful work. Great character design & thoughtful animation.

Will this be coming out on DVD or something?

[moemayerhofer]

The DVD is not available now. I'm still working on it.
Thanks again for the nice feedback. I hope you will all see the entire film soon and enjoy it!

[El_Pube]

Impressive.

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