Holy... that's eyecandy. Thanks for sharing that. Very inspirational. P
On 05/07/2013, at 18.05, Simon Reeves <si...@simonreeves.com> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Here at Analog we've just finished up working on a commercial directed by > Smith & Foulkes with Nexus for Honda, and I convinced the guys here to give > Softimage a go ;) > > http://www.analogstudio.co.uk/work/honda > > quoting from the link above (because it is true): > 'We were responsible of the assembly of the multiple shots, remove props, > track all the objects, shade, light and render everything. All of the FX > animation, compositing and grading also happened under one roof at Analog. We > shared the modelling with Nexus since it was a massive undertaking with so > many products. Nexus also provided us with the amazing character animations > and the subtle physical secondary movements of the objects.' > > Soft was very handy considering we were working on long shots, with so many > models (3/4 passes for each object, 13 objects ish in one shot I think) > We had all the animation cached out of max from Nexus, and I wrote scripts to > clean up obj's, hook up all the objects to their respective caches through > ICE, and transfer materials/clusters when we had to bring in new models > revisions. Considering how much cache there was moving around soft handled it > well! > Oh and we rendered in VRay, as the guys here are used to using it for years > from Max so I think that helped the transition to Soft! > > Also, interesting working with another studio like that! I've not done > something like that before really.... > > Cheers! > > > Simon Reeves > London, UK > si...@simonreeves.com > www.simonreeves.com >