FXWARS! Flying Car, Daniel Amedoda, Freeform, Gia

#21

Hey thanks adib :slight_smile: I am still working on the taking off animation now but, I have a few more problems to sort out.

The second phase of the cars transformation involves the wheels being transformed into hover spheres, I am still in two minds about having the spheres glow or not. I am aware that they would also need to light the ground and the specular highlights would need to have a similar color to the sphere lights.

I have made a few mistakes today, one of them was accidently deleting the texture for the road barrier whilst cleaning up the scene, I had already saved the file before I realized what I had done DOH!!

The scene looks jagged because I am testing out my renders at a low resolution first of all and then if my PC can handle it I will increase the resolution. However, my p.c. has been killing me it took me just over 4 minutes to render one ambient occlusion pass, that wasn’t helped by the fact that I suffered a power cut as well :frowning: .

#22

Worked a bit more on the take off animation.

http://vimeo.com/2187464

#23

really shaping up on the last few posts, dig the new transformation shot!

#24

RayRay, thanks alot man, my pc is suffering at my hands due to an intense rendering session, ambient occlusion pass. I dont know why it is taking so long, I had to reduce the quality and the amounts of samples of the ambient occlusion shader. Thanks for the encouragement :smiley:

#25

Ok I have rendered out most of the animated passes. The final look of the two phases can be seen in the images below. There are still a few tweaks that need to be done, like add heat haze and light streaks, I also need to add camera shake and a slow down animation to show both phases of the cars transformation.

			[[img]http://acmfx.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/final_phase2-copy.jpg?w=128&h=96[/img]](http://acmfx.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/what-maya-did-whilst-i-was-sleeping/final_phase2-copy/) 			 				[[img]http://acmfx.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/phases-copy.jpg?w=128&h=63[/img]](http://acmfx.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/what-maya-did-whilst-i-was-sleeping/phases-copy/) 				[[img]http://acmfx.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/final_phase1-copy.jpg?w=128&h=96[/img]](http://acmfx.wordpress.com/2008/11/12/what-maya-did-whilst-i-was-sleeping/final_phase1-copy/) 			 
		[b]Test animation.[/b]

http://vimeo.com/2222417

#26

This is looking very good man, congrats. keep it up.:buttrock:

#27

Hey thanks man I am now rendering… I have been rendering the final comp for the past four hours, and I am beginning to think that I have done something wrong. But I have finished either way.

#28

NAME: Daniel S Amedoda Paramountcell
STILL:

WIP THREAD:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=683326

DESCRIPTION:
Eclipse technologies Gia. This has been a very exciting project for me, for a long time I had so many ideas going through my head, one of them was to design and animate my own car, I had come up with the idea of doing design for a non existent company called eclipse technology. I originally wanted to do a car chase but that would have been a bit to complicated for me, I really am in awe by the entries I have already seen.
My friend Jtype (google it) had provided me with the music, he helped with editing and slowmo. I love the music and I feel in some way the nooby animation and editing, may not do the soundtrack justice, so I intend to continue working on this project after the challenge is over, to increase my skills and get one of my friends to add music. Since my skills and processing power are limited I decided to to keep the animation short, and try and increase the quality of the 7 seconds I already had. Thanks for watching, and all the best to the other challengers
ANIMATION LINK: only lasts for seven days
https://www.yousendit.com/download/...IcVhlaFJFQlE9PQ

MIRROR:
http://vimeo.com/2277272

#29

for a more detailed discussion check out my progress at www.acmfx.wordpress.com

#30

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