Looks really good Tim! Any special video cards for the rendering or just standard GeForce?
-=Eric On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:44 PM, Tim Crowson <tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com > wrote: > You know what, Ed... that was one of the directions we were thinking > about. We were thinking 'well, we could go all Miami Vice with it and have > funky colors and strong geometric shapes everywhere, or we could maybe do > the more floral style, with poofy furniture and brass...' (which are, > according to our research, some of the chief characteristics of interior > design during the 80s). In the end we were limited by what commercial > models were available/reasonable. In the time we had, it was just easier to > toss the grandmother look at it than the Miami Vice one. But yeah, that was > one of the angles we had. > > When I say 'commercial models', I really mean just the geometry, which in > many cases had to be cleaned up. We did all the shaders and most of the > textures from scratch. > > -Tim > > > On 2/19/2014 3:32 PM, Ed Harriss wrote: > > That was fantastic. > > Great work in such a short timeframe! > Redshift looks amazing and those render times are awesome. > > > > Next time you have to do 80's, just watch a few episodes of Miami Vice. ;) > > Ed > > > > *From:* softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com [ > mailto:softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com<softimage-boun...@listproc.autodesk.com>] > *On Behalf Of *Tim Crowson > *Sent:* Wednesday, February 19, 2014 4:03 PM > *To:* softimage@listproc.autodesk.com > *Subject:* Re: Recent Work - Chick-Fil-A: Celebrating 50 Years > > > > Hair and Strands are supported as of a couple of builds now, but 'lofted' > strands are not, they're still in progress. The hair shader is also not > live yet and is being worked on currently, but the default > Redshift_Architectural works fine for most cases. You can do a good bit > with it, especially cartoony stuff. > > -Tim > > On 2/19/2014 2:58 PM, Chris Johnson wrote: > > Amazing job! I'm buying a license tomorrow! No joke. Any idea on how far > away hair/fur/Strands support is? > > > > On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Tim Crowson < > tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com> wrote: > > We were fortunate to be able to work on an ad for Chick-Fil-A recently, > rendered in Redshift. > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZow-3nCl0k > > > *Client:* Chick-Fil-A/Radiate Films > *Director:* Ben Smallbone > *Art Director:* Joel Gibbs > *3D:* Tim Crowson > *Comp:* Joel Gibbs/Don Culwell > > The concept was simple: have a camera move through a room as it changes > decor to reflect a different decade from the 1960s up through the present > day. We technically had 2 weeks from start to finish, but in reality we > wound up with a much tighter schedule. We certainly didn't have time to > model what we needed, so we bought some commercial models, retextured and > reshaded them, and lit the scenes. In the end I was able to get each decade > accounted for in about one work day each. Spent a couple of hours in the > morning gathering and prepping the assets, then blocking in the lighting > and shading, then rest of the day tweaking, and finally off to render. Joel > and Don then took it and comped it in After Effects. > > - The 3-bounce cap was raised right as I started lighting this, and I was > so thankful! I used 8 bounces on this job and it really helped, especially > in the 70s set, with all the orange spill everywhere. > > - The shag carpet in the 70s set is not hair. It's just a single dense rug > instanced around the room. > > - Rendered using IPC + BF. The longest frames were for the 70s and took > maybe 12-15min on our fastest machines. Other shots were closer to the 5-6 > min mark. > > - The 80s set was tough! Have you ever tried to actually define the 80s in > terms of style? It's a mess! We all have ideas about it, but when it comes > time to actually produce something that says '80s', and you have like a day > to do it, it's not easy. Stupid 80s! In the end, we had a couple of > different directions to go in, and just picked one. > > -- > > > > > *Tim Crowson **Lead CG Artist* > > > *Magnetic Dreams, Inc. *2525 Lebanon Pike, Bldg C, Suite 101, Nashville, > TN 37214 > *Ph* 615.885.6801 | *Fax* 615.889.4768 | www.magneticdreams.com > tim.crow...@magneticdreams.com > > *Confidentiality Notice: This email, including attachments, is > confidential and should not be used by anyone who is not the original > intended recipient(s). If you have received this e-mail in error please > inform the sender and delete it from your mailbox or any other storage > mechanism. Magnetic Dreams, Inc cannot accept liability for any statements > made which are clearly the sender's own and not expressly made on behalf of > Magnetic Dreams, Inc or one of its agents.* > > > > > > > -- > -- -=T=-
