CgTalk FXWars!: The Big Freeze! Minneapolis team: Flash Freeze

#1

Greetings!

Well a couple of us (Tyson Ibele and Danny Robashkin) from Make over in Minneapolis have some time on our hands for the next week or so…so we’ll be trying to get an entry handed in by the deadline :slight_smile:

More to come soon!

#2

Andrew Shea is now part of our team :slight_smile:

#3

hey am new to this site and i just saw what u did in the last fxwars contest and all the anims from ur site i love ur work man and am sure we’ll see some real good stuff from u and ur team

#4

Storyboards! Posted simply to obey challenge rules, since they’re pretty darned crappy as you will see :wink:

http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations/Freeze/boards.jpg

#5

Hey, sometimes crappy is effective. :wink: Good luck guys, looking forward to seeing the animation!

#6

Hey everyone…we are alive and well :smiley:

Sorry for the lack of updates…we’ve been loaded with other projects on the go so this one has been put onto the backburner…that being said we’ll be finishing it up this weekend so that it’s ready for Monday.

Here is a playblast showing the crash sequence blocking. Note that the helicopter no longer freezes in water, do to time restrictions (and how long it would have taken to pull off that effect) we’ve simply crashed it into a dock now :wink:

http://www.theonlyt.com/Main/Animations/Freeze/playblast1.mov

Here’s what the helicopter looks like. Note that the model was taken from a model library we have here at MAKE.

#7

that looks really great, should be one nice piece of work in the end :slight_smile:

#8

Great work people…

The voting thread will go up this Friday, so if you wish to tweak the entry you have until then.

-R

#9

When the camera swings around the econd loop, the shot kinda lose energy or at least there is a jarring in the smoothness that was set up in the first curve.

#10

Dang…doesn’t look like our team is going to have time to finish this after all…

Good luck to all the other participants!

#11

how much work do you still have to do?

-R

#12

Well…at this point it would take us until at least Monday-ish…but then there’s still no promising that it’ll be done (we had a last-minute job come up Wednesday night…and therefore won’t get to work on the Freeze entry until Saturday at the earliest).

That being said…we have some crappy-looking test comps done…so if extending the deadline isn’t possible, we could still probably post those anyways.

#13

Wow guys, you’re doing it reaaally fine! :thumbsup: That image looks great, so the movie does! (cool camera angles and fast movements… It looks like motion-blur will be the key to ‘reality’…? :smiley: )

I’d do that in every case, yeah… Then people know at least that you also put time in this ‘War’.

Very good luck on it… Hopefully you’ll have a nice entry at the end! :slight_smile:

#14

Post what you got…
and hey …try finishing on your own time. You do good work.
Shame for you to give it up, but at least you got work.

#15

Ok here is the deal…

I will post the thread on Monday morning…

becase

  • I have to work on the promo that I got today
  • I have to set up the voting page.

You have until monday, but that is it.

Also send me a 15 second promo shot.

-R

#16

Thanks Roberto :smiley:

Looks like we’re going to have some more sleepness nights this weekend :stuck_out_tongue:

#17

Is that ‘you’ also for ‘us’? :twisted: I mean… Is for everyone the deadline extended to monday…? (so that we have 2 extra days) Caus’ in that case I could continue the editing really easy and without (many) stress…

For you guys (of the Minneapolis team): cool for you especially that you got extra time…! I can’t wait for your finished entry! :slight_smile:

Greetz,
-Gijs

#18

That is for all entries…

–R

#19

Happy us! :thumbsup:

Thanks Roberto! :buttrock:

#20

any updates?

You guys can still be added to the voting thread…

-R