Michał Maciejewski – VFX Artist

Hello!

It’s finally live! I’ve been struggling with this animation for way too long. Hopefully I finished it the way I wanted from the very beginning.
The point was to practise some procedural destruction via TP ( at that time I worked on TP3) and FumeFX. There is also a full tank rig, but  it’s all covered in dust Rendering was handled in FinalRender3, it worked quite well, at the end of animation u can see some GI flickering, I really had no time to crank up the settings to get rid of it. And finally, I had a chance to work for the first time with Nuke by comping this piece. It’s just awesome software for this kind of comping, also way faster than AE – especially when multichannel EXR workflow comes at the party I’ve attached Nuke’s script screenshot to show u how I approached it – let me know if there is something done the way it’s not supposed to, I brought all the habits from AE.

Big thanks goes to to guys from Box Postproduction for great feedback during production and for borrowing SOME renderfarm power. Greatly appreciated.

Enjoy!

Youtube
Vimeo

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Nuke’s script screenshot hires

Just working on fur for our internal production. After some tests on 3ds’s Hair and Fur, VrayFur, Ornatrix or proxy objects, we were still not pleased with the results. Then I decided to try something different.
Shave and Haircut for Maya and Renderman turned out to produce outstanding results, at very decent rendertimes. Here is fur test at closeup. The project got stucked for some time, but I hope that we will finish eventually.

Cheers!

fur1.mov

Hi,

That was a real adrenaline kick! I really needed this one. It’s fairly easy to make a parachute jump in a tandem. You don’t need any mediacal examination nor authorization. 15 minutes “tutorial” on the ground and you’re ready to fly. Everything went smooth, untill we reached altitude of 4 klicks and doors were opened. Then time starts to go 2x faster and there is no turning back. And don’t worry about the moment of exiting the plane, guy behind you will make this decision for you

Video and photos,

Cheers!

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vimeo Direkt

Hi,

I have been testing FumeFX for something else then fire/smoke simulation. As you can see, it also works great for ink sim. This effect can be pushed even further, if played with time scale in FFX grid options. Rendered with Krakatoa.

Anyway, that was just a quick test, with some eye candy resuls.

Greets!

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Hi,

I’ve finally finished this project! Actually, it’s been going quite smooth through the production process. At first I just ran some tests on simple model of balloon ( previous post), then I was ready to move on.

Getting a HD camcorder (HF-10) was the next step, so I could shoot some footage in my city. All the 3d job was done in 3ds, only cloth simulation was performed by Maya’s nCloth – has some nice features Animation was moved between apps by point cache files – nice and easy. Tracking process was fairly simple, because it was only nodal pan. Vray handled the rendering process, all in 720p at decent rendering times ( only one machine with Q6600). Oh, and there is a bit of FumeFX, it was quick setup, I didn’t have any more patience for this project

So, here is Vimeo link for final animation and Making Of. Also links for direct download from my host.

Enjoy!

Balloon crash – Quicktime 23MB

Making of Balloon – Quicktime 13MB

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Hello Everyone,

I have just started my blog, where I will post all the stuff that I create in 3d.

Greets!