Great! Simple and effective… Reminds me of the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. It could have some more live elements, though…
Uplift Universe - Video Entry: George Kiparissous
icedeyes
#21
Thank you all for your input… I am glad everyone liked it…
grzesiekj, infoarq: thank you for your kind words…
XminusOne: I was not planning on making monkey hands for him just because i found it funnier to have just a monkey head attached to a normal human body… Also, since i am working for my reel right now, i am trying to get as many good looking pieces on my reel without spending an insane amount of time matchmoving… Sorry but i will skip this step for now… 
liveman: I didn’t use any other live elements because i didn’t want to draw the attention away from the two main characters… I tried it at one stage and the input i got was negative so i skipped that step in the submissions…
mim-Armand
#22
Hey great work icedeyes! 
Nice matching! and monkey facial riging looks awsome too; the acting is funny too! great work over all!
Thought you’r the first one finished man!
Goodluck for your reel also! really wonna see that!
mim, :wip:
adib
#24
Nice work !Is difficult to make all that keying thing in composition but the result is GREAT!
icedeyes
#26
Thank you all for your kind words…
I am really glad you all liked it cause it took a lot of effort and time on my end to make it… Lots of late nights…
Thanks again,
George
John_Keates
#27
Really nice work! It is quite simple but works well. I agree that maybe the hands could be monkeyfied but that would be a lot of extra work (I guess)
icedeyes
#28
these are some frames from the playblast i did while i was matchmoving…
Covering the previz stage of the challenge
icedeyes
#29
these are some frames from the playblast i did while i was matchmoving…
Covering the previz stage of the challenge
icedeyes
#30
Hello everyone… I want to thank everybody who contributed to this thread… It was a learning process once again…
This is the final version i am submitting… hope you like it…
ivanisavich
#31
I think you did a great job! Although it would have been nice to see him with gorilla-like hands. Very funny “take” on the theme though…like “A Night at the Roxbury” in space!
icedeyes
#32
Thanks for your comments Tyson… Glad you liked the result… There are two reasons why i didn’t do the hands… first, this was my initial idea (everything human except from the monkey head) and second, i am working hard on wrapping up my demoreel so time is an issue…
On another issue that came up, if anyone is reading this thread, I am trying to upload my final video for the video challenge using the cguploader but it gives me an error message saying that “This feature is only available to CGS members”…I used my username and pass, selected video as a category, browsed to an image and flv video and then i clicked upload…
Am i doing something wrong?
Thanks in advance,
George
icedeyes
#33
TheoChron
#34
Great work my fellow Greek!! Very professional!! I wish you the best of luck with this challenge.
icedeyes
#35
Ok… I decided to add something else i have been working on in my submission…
Its a space scene i have been messing around with for a couple of weeks now on and off (mostly off), not sure if it would fit in there, but i think it will work really well to complete my submission…
Hope you like it…
George
icedeyes
#36
I hope you like the design… I took some reference from old nasa spaceships as well as spacestations and added my touch on that…
This is the model that will go into the space scene…
C&C welcome as always…
Have fun,
George
digikris
#37
Thats a pretty cool design there. I don’t know about the proportions is Mr.Charles Dart inside this ship.