Uplift Universe - Video Entry: George Kiparissous

#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… :wink:

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…

#22

Hey great work icedeyes! :thumbsup:
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:

#23

excellent ! I love it ! this is so funny !

#24

Nice work !Is difficult to make all that keying thing in composition but the result is GREAT!:slight_smile:

#25

That’s awesome! nice work!

#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

#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)

#28

these are some frames from the playblast i did while i was matchmoving…

Covering the previz stage of the challenge

#29

these are some frames from the playblast i did while i was matchmoving…

Covering the previz stage of the challenge

#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…

#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!

#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

#33

Software: Maya

I really hope you like it…

Thanks again everyone for your input…

Play Video >>

#34

Great work my fellow Greek!! Very professional!! I wish you the best of luck with this challenge.

My uplift Image

#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

#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

#37

Thats a pretty cool design there. I don’t know about the proportions is Mr.Charles Dart inside this ship.

#38

Very very cool…good to see you’re adding some expository elements to yours :wink:

#39

Cool!
Your entry is pretty solid.
adding stuff will only make it better .

good luck

#40

Software: Digital Fusion,Maya,mental ray

First of all thank you for commenting on my entry. Sorry I haven’t visited yours but i am still finishing stuff for my reel and its really time consuming as i am sure you know.

digikris: I was creating the ship for the stylistic purposes of the angles it will be viewed from, so proportions where not the most significant factor of consideration. If sizes still bother you in this video, i can change them (schedule permiting).

Tyson, Grzegorz: I am really glad you like it…

I really hope you like how the space scene turned out… I was thinking of putting it in front of the monkey scene in the edit. What do you think?

If you have the time, could you also check my new reel at www.geovfx.com and tell me what you think?

C&C welcome as always…

Thanks everyone in advance,
George

Play Video >>