Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-09 Thread Jordi Bares
I know right? I had quite a laugh myself too… X-D > On 9 Nov 2017, at 16:25, Ed Manning wrote: > > semi-off-topic, and fully ridiculous: > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_paddington-2Dchristmas-2Dcommercial-2Dmarks-2Dand-2Dspencer-5Fus-5F5a03d3

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-09 Thread Ed Manning
semi-off-topic, and fully ridiculous: https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.huffingtonpost.com_entry_paddington-2Dchristmas-2Dcommercial-2Dmarks-2Dand-2Dspencer-5Fus-5F5a03d362e4b0937b510f8bc1-3Fncid-3Dinblnkushpmg0009&d=DwIBaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-08 Thread Jason S
The thing is, the requirement of many specialized & very technical artists over long periods of time can be especially resource intensive. And I think it's precisely why soft is still around. While of course not as prominently (mostly I think

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-08 Thread Jordi Bares
below > On 8 Nov 2017, at 16:30, Jason S wrote: > > Thats really awesome and perfectly integrated! > > Though it makes me miss the times when things like this popped-up from all > sorts of shop sizes around. Such as things you'd find sprinkled around the > "Great work done with Softimage" th

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-08 Thread Jason S
Thats really awesome and perfectly integrated! Though it makes me miss the times when things like this popped-up from all sorts of shop sizes around. Such as things you'd find sprinkled around the "Great work done with Softimage" thread. (armies of a

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-08 Thread Jordi Bares
Thank you very much Jonathan, that is the biggest compliment I can hope for, surely we were aware of it and worked very hard to maintain the consistency with the film, a huge ask to be honest. All while learning the ins and outs of their procedures while moving at the fast pace of advertising.

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-08 Thread Jonathan Moore
> > My biggest insight was to see a film pipeline at full speed on Paddingto2 > and others, up close and being able to compare it with a typical > advertising one. Inspiring to say the least. Speaking as an artist that understands the multiple pressures of pleasing multiple stakeholders, you've p

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-08 Thread Jordi Bares
I hope there is a making of to show what was done, because it was very very big project and required an army of artists. Just look at the hair/cloth multilayered details, the effects, the number of props to replicate perfectly (the sleigh to start with) and all the fx on Paddington contact with

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-08 Thread Rob Wuijster
Loved it! Absolute top notch work, and kudos to everybody involved! I can only hope you got a decent time schedule to do all this in ;) Would love to hear more on the production side of things, as it sounds very interesting. :) Rob \/-\/\/ On 8-11-2017 0:20, Grah

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-07 Thread Graham D. Clark
Thanks for the insight Jordi. Would love to know more, hopefully there's a breakdown reel for part of it one day. Graham D Clark phone: why-I-stereo https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.imdb.me_grahamdclark&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6IQ7a_IF9uzNzd_2pA&r=GmX_32eCLYPFLJ5

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-07 Thread Jordi Bares
Below > On 7 Nov 2017, at 22:19, Jonathan Moore wrote: > > Great work Jordi. > > My question is more a workflow/process thing. Am I right in saying that the > commercials team at Framestore are a separate entity to the film production > team? Yes, but we can switch our workstations to film

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-07 Thread Jordi Bares
No worries, it is certainly all the snow effect, layout of snow on buildings and festoons, dressing of xmas decorations and many many other little effects everywhere (like the sack RBD sim) it was a ton of work. >From particles, grains, RBDs, Fluids for the drag of the truck, etc… a lot of >it.

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-07 Thread Jordi Bares
Thanks, will pass the kudos to the team, it was quite a cracking bunch of people working hard as hell. Houdini is already very prominent in Advertising at Framestore, not just traditional FX but as the backbone. Will it replace it? I am convinced it will, it is only a matter of making a few thi

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-07 Thread Jonathan Moore
Great work Jordi. My question is more a workflow/process thing. Am I right in saying that the commercials team at Framestore are a separate entity to the film production team? With that being the case, did you guys work in tandem with the film guys on the commercial production or was it more a cas

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-07 Thread Graham D. Clark
Congrats Jordi, that's awesome work. Really like the look. I know some of it's obvious but can you elaborate on the FX parts done in Houdini? Cheers Graham D Clark phone: why-I-stereo https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.imdb.me_grahamdclark&d=DwIFaQ&c=76Q6Tcqc-t2x0ciWn7KFdCiqt6

Re: M&S "Paddington & The Christmas Visitor

2017-11-07 Thread Ognjen Vukovic
Looks amazing. Was all this from the commercial department at framestore. Also do you think houdini will ever replace maya for doing the bulk of the rendering? Regards, Ogi. On 7 Nov 2017 2:39 p.m., "Jordi Bares" wrote: > After many many weeks of work, really big team and excruciating detail at