Juanxer Posted January 13, 2010 Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 Well, outing myself as a Trekker here :blush:, so rockets and spaceships it is (please don't shoot me :D). I did this ship in EIModeler and the hangar was my first ViaCAD project. At work I had to test Youtube's transcoding quality for a project, so I rendered and edited a few shots and came up with this. I should have put more effort into it, but I was feeling impatient. I think Youtube messed the gamma and things got darker than intended. Have fun. Another one: this was a Xpressionist test (the blinkies, perhaps you remember that discussion at the EITG forums) plus importing camera movement into After Effects via MoCon (the blue vortex thing is a precomp floating in AE's 3D space). There was no attempt at better integrating the ship and the vortex. I leave that for when I try to develop that into a more interesting sequence of shots. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KurtF Posted January 13, 2010 Report Share Posted January 13, 2010 That is some outstanding work. Subtle with the camera movement and strong with the reflective materials. Well done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichardJoly Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Very nice, thanks for sharing. You also did the music? Again, impressive, most impressive... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S. Houtzager Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Those really rock. The whole hanger scene is very complete. I especially like the blue glass on the ships along with the reflections on the ships. Is there some blur in the metallic reflections that I see? S.H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanxer Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 I think I used some, but it could be the result of combining the RT reflections with a couple global reflection maps, plus the motion blur from getting so near the hull with the camera movement. The music is something I cooked in Apple's Logic Express (the prosumer version of Logic Pro). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ian Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Great work, love the curves, hyper-reflections. Love the debate you started on you-tube about replicating star-ships, only Star Trek can do that. Congrats, Ian Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanxer Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 If you like hardcore geeking :cool:, this was the original sci-fi meshes thread I presented that ship in. You'll notice it is very old, and some attachments didn't survive some server collapse from time ago (please don't post there: those guys really frown upon "necroposting"). Lots of treknobabble there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted January 14, 2010 Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Ola, Excelent work my friend... Keep in your HD a high quality render without compression, I will want this later.. :) Thankssss Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanxer Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 OK (it's a biggie, though: 3.5 GB. Does anyone know any QT lossless encoder better than Animation 100%?). Happy you all enjoyed watching it :blush:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomas Egger Posted January 15, 2010 Report Share Posted January 15, 2010 Ola, First step, Convert to PNG QT, its lossless but have 1/3 of Animation size. Thanksss Tom OK (it's a biggie, though: 3.5 GB. Does anyone know any QT lossless encoder better than Animation 100%?). Happy you all enjoyed watching it :blush:. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
batoloco Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Beautiful work Juan, is being long time since i have seen a great render from EIAS. It looks so real. WOW Batoloco Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Johnston Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Hi Juanxer Super work including music great . Thanks for posting Hey Tomas this is the second thread with the convert to PNG QT suggestion. Who knew this fact without your help thanks Tomas Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Imagenation Posted February 24, 2010 Report Share Posted February 24, 2010 Great work. Very nice renders. Maybe to give it a little more would be to add some smoke & steam effects in the hangar and lense flares, ala the new Star Trek movie, along with some highlight glares. Just a thought, great images and detail though. Ash Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Posted February 25, 2010 Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 Hi Juanxer, Nice look hyper clean, very nice reflections. congratulations:) Cheers Diego Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juanxer Posted February 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 25, 2010 Very nice renders. Maybe to give it a little more would be to add some smoke & steam effects in the hangar and lense flares, ala the new Star Trek movie, along with some highlight glares. Thank you. And good suggestions: I loved that flare-fest a lot, and it would be fun to play with smokers, compositing and things. A question: has anyone got a good recipe for uploading Quicktime-originated footage to Youtube without gamma issues? I've tried several codecs, including h.264 (which seems to have additional gamma problems of its own), always getting too contrasty results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidlgood Posted March 1, 2010 Report Share Posted March 1, 2010 Juanxer Do a search for X.264. It's a standalone package that will create high quality H.264 files that are superior to QuickTime Pro's version (which does seem to alter gamma and sometimes produces banding). This is NOT an alternate codec, rather a simple application that exports your video files to H.264 the correct way -- the way you originally thought QuickTime Pro would. :) There are Mac and Windows versions available. Windows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/megui/ Macintosh: http://www003.upp.so-net.ne.jp/mycometg3/ This you find this helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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