New V-Ray Animation - Desmone Architects Demo Reel 2009
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Hey all,
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This is a demo reel of several projects I have been working on lately. Im sure many of you have already seen most of these projects in various posts Ive made, but in my free time, I created this demo reel to help market the company I work for (Desmone & Associates Architects) and our illustration/animation capabilities.
All of these projects started with modeling in sketchup and were rendered with vray. Roughly 70% was rendered with vray for SU, and the rest of the projects were taken into 3ds max and rendered with vray as well.
It was a lot of hard work, but it was a lot of fun as well. I hope you all enjoy watching it as much as I did making it. Feel free to comment/critique, and any feedback is greatly appreciated.
Also if you have any time and are interested check out our company website (http://www.desmone.com). The site needs a bit of an update, but we have a lot of excitement building, because we just got approved yesterday for possibly one of the biggest projects that pittsburgh has seen in years, No. 1 Grandview. Check out the links below if you are interested and feel free to ask any questions and ill do my best to answer them.
http://kdka.com/local/mount.washington.hotel.2.1466270.html
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_665247.html
http://pittsburgh.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/stories/2010/02/01/daily24.html
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Awesome reel....congrats!!!
Production was very good. Was most of the animation done to still renders in post production video editing? (i.e. falling leaves, birds, etc)
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Great stuff, yes please explain the animated birds, leaves, doors, fire, etc.
Nice music too, works great.
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Great job man. Some shots look like real especially nature. Very good.
Rest regards.
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Loving the bit where the birds appear and the leaves fall.
The rendering of the brick building at that point is fantastic. It looks real. -
Really great work there steeler, I'm impressed. Its good to see a nice Vray4SU demoreel work out so well.
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Really nice work on the reel Adam!
That project will be a nice addition to the skyline up on Mt Washington.
Dean
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Excellent work, again! Congrats!
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Thanks guys. Im glad you all liked it.
Earthmover & Solo: Thanks for the feedback guys, always appreciated. Several of the sequences were still images that had effects just applied to them in after effects. That was a decision I made early to do since we already had most of the renderings finished, and I wanted to have this marketing piece as soon as possible while trying to minimize all the time that would have needed to be spent rendering tons of frames. It was a lot quicker, and maybe a bit more visually interesting, to just add effects in after effects. It also gave me more practice with that sort of work. Then I just mixed those sort of sequences in with actual animated camera sequences to still justify it as an animation and not just a slide show. I find that when animating, as along as you have some sort of movement (even if it is just a single frame being zoomed in/out) and mix it properly with other animated sequences that it can work for a project. But it depends on the client to I guess.
As for some of the sequences:
-The birds were a single frame that got zoomed out and I animated the birds in after effects in a seperate file and then imported them on a layer in front of the sky background, but behind the building that had a transparent background-the fire was the same idea. A single frame with stock footage of fire that we purchased and added in after effects
-The Leaves we added in after effects using a particle system plugin, but they were actually added to an animated camera sequence
-The glass door sequemce was one of the projects that I did the primary modeling in SU then renderd in vray for max. At the time, i just did it to use a project as practice in max, but then I realized the advantage of being able to animate objects in max so i did the cliche door opening sequence. not very original, but i didnt mind it.
Thanks again guys for the feedback, i hope i answered your questions clearly.
Dean: Thanks man. Yeah that will be a nice project for the city and that area in particular. We are trying to get LEED platinum for it all, and I think it will be a great symbol for the city moving in that direction. There are still a lot of obstacles, but hopefully it all works out. I always forget, how close to pittsburgh are you? Not far right?
Cadmunkey: Thanks as well...hopefully I will be able to work on the project and share images with everyone as the project progresses.
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I am stunned. Great Job!
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thanks KXI, much appreciated
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Very nice!
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thanks ken. im glad you liked it
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