One of our Elite Users sent me a video of the latest thing.... Awesome.

Submitted by AntonioVP on Sat, 04/02/2011 - 11:10am

Featuring this future concept and inspired by the penultimate scene from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, it stars the lead actor from that film, Keir Dullea, the guy who played astronaut Dave Bowman. We integrated him into an entirely digitally created 3D set rendered at 1080HD. Modeled in Modo (& a little Lightwave & Maya), then surfaced, animated and rendered in 3DS Max with V-Ray. Shot on a RED & 5D Mk2.

You can check it out here: http://www.vimeo.com/21465475 or in full 1080 HD here: http://www.vimeo.com/21463365. Maximize and play it loud!

Behind the scenes, a little making of & concept info at www.i-cocoon.com

On average 1920x1080 frames took between 20 to 50 minutes on my primary BOXX workstation (12 physical core Xeon, 24 logical cores, 12gigs RAM). Shots in the alcove area where Dullea is typing took about 50 minutes to 1hr 40 per frame. This is due to multiple area lights matching the live action footage plus the illuminated floor and all the crazy GI and noise issues that need to be dealt with.
 
Also, my friend Jan Rybar, owner of ImagesFX (www.imagesfx.cz) helped to render several shots and his renderfarm included a 4-node BOXX renderfarm, workstations...   Systems which include a 4 node BOXX renderfarm, workstations and other systems totaling around 100 physical cores. As those include older systems, some frames took inexcess of 9 hours and my old BOXX was taking around 3-4 hours on average per 1080HD frame before I switched to the new BOXX last summer. (Was thirteen months of post).

Also while it was thirteen months of post, I should mention that I actually started this in January 2009, so alot of the room modeling and early renders were done that year. Also previsualized the entire thing in '09. So it was a roughly equivalent time in pre-production.

Oliver Zeller
 

 

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Submitted by Oliver Zeller on Sun, 04/03/2011 - 7:05pm.

Thanks Antonio. Was so busy

Thanks Antonio. Was so busy organizing other stuff, we wouldn't even have had on set photography if Quan, my VFX collaborator hadn't invited a colleague from Blue Sky. Nancy Dinh took alot of the shots, Quan shot some too. They're both lighting TD's at Blue Sky and worked on Ice Age 3, the upcoming RIO.

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Submitted by AntonioVP on Sat, 04/02/2011 - 11:12am.

click on the hd link, and ideas.

Hd link is awesome.  ALso the behind the scenes is very well photographed, maybe GMD??  

ANtonio

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