Hi folks,
recently Steffen Hacker from Unexpected (
http://www.unexpected.de/), a german corporate media and vfx company, asked me, if I'd like to create some TG stuff for a commercial they were producing, because he liked to have TG in the production pipeline. Thank god he saw my work here in the forum!
They wanted an arctic kind of landscape and asked me for some test images. I sent them some, they liked it and began to shoot some real footage with my images as a lighting reference. After that we had a very busy time. They continued shooting, while I was creating lots of TG scenes, that I sent them. Their VFX team started with the 3d stuff they created with 3ds max.
The last TG update came just in time, since we tried to export the landscape into 3ds max. So we could easily create a very large area of the terrain without holes for the animations.
It was a great (and very busy) time, I loved to create something together with a team (although we never met, we only communicated by e-mail or phone!).
Here are some shots from the commercial and the Vimeo links to the commercial itself and a making of.
Link commercial:
http://vimeo.com/24717613Link making of:
http://vimeo.com/24866090Today he sent me an email and told me, they were in Los Angeles recently and met some guys of other vfx companies. They showed them the spot and some of the other vfx guys asked him, where they shot the arctic footage and if the budget was big enough to shoot in the Arctic.
ROFL!!!!! Dear Planetside staff,
this is some compliment for your software, isn't it? (...and a little bit for me
)
