I like the Analog Reel where the basketball player shoes are trailing behind him, clever.
::Christopher:: > Hey everyone, > > Here at Analog we've just finished up working on a commercial directed > by Smith & Foulkes with Nexus for Honda, and I convinced the guys here > to give Softimage a go ;) > > http://www.analogstudio.co.uk/work/honda > > quoting from the link above (because it is true): > /'We were responsible of the assembly of the multiple shots, remove > props, track all the objects, shade, light and render everything. All > of the FX animation, compositing and grading also happened under one > roof at Analog. We shared the modelling with Nexus since it was a > massive undertaking with so many products. Nexus also provided us with > the amazing character animations and the subtle physical secondary > movements of the objects.'/ > / > / > Soft was very handy considering we were working on long shots, with so > many models (3/4 passes for each object, 13 objects ish in one shot I > think) > We had all the animation cached out of max from Nexus, and I wrote > scripts to clean up obj's, hook up all the objects to their respective > caches through ICE, and transfer materials/clusters when we had to > bring in new models revisions. Considering how much cache there was > moving around soft handled it well! > Oh and we rendered in VRay, as the guys here are used to using it for > years from Max so I think that helped the transition to Soft! > > Also, interesting working with another studio like that! I've not done > something like that before really.... > > Cheers! > > > Simon Reeves > London, UK > /[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>/ > /www.simonreeves.com <http://www.simonreeves.com>/ > / > /
