Our making of piece! also testing FLV conversion quality.
Uplift Universe - Video Entry: Mike McCain
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Software: After Effects,Maya,mental ray,Photoshop
The final cut of our video entry, Coffee Break!
Thank you all for a very fun three months. This is the first CGChallenge we’ve entered, and it was a great learning experience. We’re very proud of our finished product, and of everyone else’s too.
Our story developed from the idea that even though alien technology may be more advanced, sometimes a simple human approach is better. We wanted to illustrate this in a fun and slightly abstract way, so we opted for an everyday office setting instead of a spaceship or a distant planet. Our alien protagonist thinks he’s pretty hot stuff with all his hi-tech alien gadgetry, but today he just might learn otherwise…
We hope you enjoy watching!
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Three-Legged Dog Productions
WOW!! High quality job!! Congratulations guys, you done very well. I laugh a lot with the alien expressions … hehe
Congrats again and good luck 
Hahahahaha! Was he controlling that pen with his mind? Baahahahah…took like 3 double-takes to fully get that 
Awesome job you guys…a pleasure to watch! I hope you do well 
jajajaja…nice job…very funny short…i did jump a lot on my chair …that was very cool…an nice detail with the making of…
Great job! I am happy to see more “cartoon friendly” stuff in the challenge. Definitely not an easier job to do. I like how you folks effectiovely used colors and shaders. It can be fun to emphasize alien’s anger even more. I dont really want to see alien guy beating the machine, but maybe to see him agresively run to the attack, before you cover it with black. But that is just my 2cents. Good luck!
Thanks guys! And thanks for all the support throughout the challenge. It was really fun!
If anyone’s interested, larger better quality version here: http://zhi-chen.com/cgchallenge/finalcut/ (h264, ~90mb)
Congrats!
That’s awesome, Mike! You really deserved the win for all your team’s great work. Congrats to everyone who worked so hard on this short. It’s a fine piece of work.
Great to see that you guy’s got the recognition you deserve! I thought your piece was the funniest of them all 
Mike!
It’s being a really busy week so pardon us for being late on this, please…
Congratulations to you and all your team!!!
It’s been an honour to be in challenge with you guys! Well done!



Hey, thanks everyone!!! We’re ultra excited about the award and really motivated to continue doing stuff as a group. (after drinkin’ and celebrating!!)
Anyway yeah also thanks for all the support during the challenge too, it was a great experience and it was very cool seeing the final article… it’s really amazing how much hard work everyone put into this challenge and the best part was being able to sit down and watch all the finished videos.

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