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We have been digging through some really old job files to find examples of still camera sequences. This project was years ago but the rendering still looks pretty good. Adding some simple sound effects adds drama to what was a pretty boring sequence of slides. Programs used: 3Ds Max/Vray, Photoshop, AfterEffects.
If you have been following the internship page on our site you will have noticed that we recently set a brief for London Met University students. The brief, which was set in two parts (and can be accessed on the internship page of our Labs site) was a 48 hour project to design, model and visualise a proposal for ‘Sony cafe’, a contemporary outdoor seating space, indoor cafe environment and climbing wall area.
At the moment everybody is talking about the new Samsung Galaxy S3. My short animation shows how I imagine the phone is going to look like. Its a first time I have found Vray RT quite useful. I mainly used it to find a perfect reflections.
This is a test that mixes simple mechanical rigging with a physical dynamic animation.
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Sometimes creating real light effects can be a nightmare. Searching for a good volume light and at the same time keeping the render time reasonable seems almost impossible to achieve. In order to research realistic looking lighting which includes the unexpected textures that a camera lens adds to the image, we reviewed some recent high profile concerts and also a spectacular light show in Hamburg for Wladimir Klitschko’s entrance when he fought David Haye. A more subtle but equally powerful light show worth looking at is the 2012 Grammy performance of Adele singing Rolling in the deep. If you look closely at the light beam properties on show, you will see what look like gas flame effects in the volumetric and there are also some great details from the ground row lighting which appear to burn together as one light when they are at their most powerful.
CGI Integration into a Locked Camera Shot
Shortly after aquiring the new studio camera, the team devised a small test to see how well we could integrate CG elements into a live shot. This work requires skills in camera matching, rotoscoping, compositing and colour matching so that the real footage and CGI seem to share the same space. Below is a brief description of how the above video was made.
If you interested how we created the illusion of 3d lift shaft watch our short videos.
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RayFire is a great plugin for 3Ds Max which lets you to fracture any object you like.
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This is a work in progress.I wrote a piece of music some time ago called ‘Raining June’. This animation will hopefully complement the music.
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This is a test to try Hair and Fur of 3DS Max, and the dynamics of the effect as well.
The other day the nice people of Artec came by our office to show us how the 3d Scanning process works. The workflow, as you can imagine, is to scan the desired object ( in this case, myself ), and then you can import the mesh on your favourite 3d software.
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At Banbury Walker Studio we don’t limit ourselves to live events, we also do some more unusual projects. Here is a film about our friend Clive, discussing barns and environmental technology; something that really interests us in the studio.