I saw this commercial online the other day Simon and thought to myself how nice it was... well done, and thanks for sharing the info!
On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Pingo van der Brinkloev <[email protected]>wrote: > Holy... that's eyecandy. Thanks for sharing that. Very inspirational. > > P > > On 05/07/2013, at 18.05, Simon Reeves <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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]* > *www.simonreeves.com* > * > * > > >
