FXWARS: Frakenstein Castle: VOTE!

#21

Hi guys, congratulations! you made a great job.

my votes goes to:
Best Composite Work: Onix
Best Animation: Dexter
Best Editing: Onix
Best Visual Effects: Onix
Best Overall Entry: Onix

Onix: Great work, I like it, maybe need more work on the camera animation, nice Vfx, and excellent ending.

Kieran Ogden: I can not see the castle, the main objective is to show the castle with a lot of enviroment Vfx. I see you work on some Vfx, but the castle is on the background, try to use animated cameras like Onix or Dexter.

Marcinek: Nice model, but you must check your camera’s animation curves, try to adjust the curves to avoid the robotic move.

Dester: Nice work, Excellent camera animation, the Vfx are good, In your post you said you have problems with the alpha mask of the castle, to fix that you can render just the objects that you like to be masked using a white flat shader (like maya’s Surface shader), and all the others with a Black one (in maya: black surface shader or the use backgound).

Good job for all. Hope to see you in the nex contest!. :thumbsup:

–<Daniel>–

#22

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[li]Best Composite Work[size=2][color=darkorange] [size=3]Kogden[/size][/size][/color]
[/li][li]Best Animation [size=2][color=darkorange]Dexter Ng[/size][/color]
[/li][li]Best Editing Onix
[/li][li]Best Visual Effects Kogden
[/li][li]Best Overall Entry [size=2][color=darkorange]Dexter Ng[/size][/color]
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#23

Ok here are the standings:

Best Composite Work: Onix -4 Votes (WINNER)
Best Composite Work kogden -4 Votes (WINNER)
Best Composite Work Marcin -3
Best Composite Work Dexter Ng -3

Best Editing: Onix -12 Votes (WINNER)
Best Editing Marcin -2

Best Visual Effects: Onix -5 Votes (WINNER)
Best Visual Effects Kogden -5 Votes (WINNER)
Best Visual Effects Marcin -4

Best Overall Entry Marcin -5 Votes (WINNER)
Best Overall Entry: Onix -5 Votes (WINNER)
Best Overall Entry Dexter Ng -3

Best Animation Dexter Ng -9 Votes (WINNER)
[color=silver]Best Animation: Marcin -3
Best Animation: Onix -2
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#24

[color=white][color=#ff8c00]Ok here are the winners:[/color][/color]
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[size=3]Dexter [size=3]Best Animation
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Comments:
Here’s my entry, took me one month, on and off, to finish everything from previz to compositing. Suppose to be a hybrid entry, yet due to time contraints I have only managed the exterior. Thanks to Roberto for the free music link :wink:

Everything, except sound effects and music, were done by me.

Modeling, animation and rendering in Lightwave3D, textures done in Photoshop and compositing done in After Effects.

PS: Can anyone please tell me how to get rid of the black outlines around the castle? The RGB pass was rendered to TGA32 with alpha channel, but somehow the composition lost its transparency supposedly due to one of the layers, therefore I had to use a travelling matte in the final composition to make the background transparent, then I get this dark outline.
WIP Thread:
FXWars! “Frakenstein’s Castle”!: Dexter Ng, Hybrid
Animation:[color=#00ff00]

Get it here
Mirror here

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[color=white]Kogden[size=2][size=3][color=#fffffe] Best Visual Effects _______________________________________________

Comments:
hey guys this a test shot of the castle on a stormy night. its about 8 hours work…manly need to do the camera work now me’s thinks but hey i hope you like.
WIP Thread:
FXWars! “Frakenstein’s Castle”!: kogden, exteria
Animation:[color=#00ff00]

DOWNLOAD 5.5mb mov fileMIRROR

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[color=white][size=2]Marcin [size=3][color=white]Best Overall Entry
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Comments:
I finally done. It takes me about 30 h of work (including render time ~15h - Ive a weak computer ;)) All mesh I done in max and next I compose it in Afx. Ive started work to late and I haven`t done all the things wchich I planned. There are some errors but I hope You like it
WIP Thread:
FXWars! “Frakenstein’s Castle”!: Marcin, Exterior SUBMISSION
Animation:[color=#00ff00]

…and the animation:

low quality (360x240) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=0Y09DX4B
mirror http://www.filefactory.com/file/57c195/

higher quality (720x480) http://www.megaupload.com/?d=OMO3F5SE
mirror http://www.filefactory.com/file/71b712/

(I strongly recommend You higher version)

And the overall winner in the most cathegories:

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Onix
Best Composite Work, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects & Best Overall Entry:
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frank1.jpg720x405

Comments:
this was fun to do, first time I do something like this.

video composed on AE, audio and editing in premiere, 3Ds Max for modeling, rendering, particles.

Good luck to everyone.

WIP Thread:
FXWars! “Frakenstein’s Castle”!: Onix, Exterior
Animation:

here is my entry

mp4 file http://www.digitalacb.com/frank.mp4

wmv file http://www.digitalacb.com/frank.wmv[/size][/color]

#25

Congratz to Marcin and Onix, great entries all around, wish there were more participants though :slight_smile: Looks like I need to work harder:D

Hope to see you guys in the next challenge:thumbsup:

#26

good work guys grats to marcin and onix! fun challeng will be back again.

hope to see you guys again :thumbsup:.

#27

thanks, :slight_smile:

Marcin, Kodgen, Dexter, we definitely did a great job, hope this is not the last one we compete together, hope to see you on the next one.

#28

Gratz to all of you!!! Big gratulations to the winner - Onix, cool work!
I hope that we will meet together on the next fxwars.

#29

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