TG used in another commercial

Hannes · November 09, 2011, 05:20:13 PM

Fortunately I was hired again to do some TG stuff for a commercial. This time I had to create a landscape that resembles some real footage the company shot in Turkey for the spot.
As I said there is some real footage filmed out of a helicopter, some TG footage and some mixed scenes. We exported the main area of the terrain out of TG and imported it into 3ds Max. They animated the camera in Max and reimported it to render the animations.
For some shots the terrain in Max was textured with a hires map. The camera was animated and the animation was rendered out in Max. Then the same animation was rendered in TG as usual. Finally both animations were composited together which produced a special look.

Here's the vimeo link:
http://vimeo.com/31727486

...and the making of:
http://vimeo.com/31727978

Kadri · November 09, 2011, 07:31:00 PM

Nice

The first thing i thought when i saw this commercial was " it is Hannes ones again probably"!
And not sure but i thought i saw a coyote on the terrain ...uhh... forget it

The worst part was the girl at the end. Not sure why they didn't used a real one?
Was the timing of the real actor not suitable for the scene ?

At which size did you rendered in TG2 Hannes ?

Hannes · November 10, 2011, 02:25:06 AM

Thanks Kadri. Yes, the coyote would have been a nice addon

I don't know very much about the cg shots they did. I think, Steffen will read this and may have some answers.
The final TG renders had a resolution of 1280 X 720 px as far as I know. I only delivered the files and they rendered them out. If I would have to do this myself the spot would have never been finished.

Dune · November 10, 2011, 03:20:42 AM

Congratulations, Hannes. Really terrific ad. Hard to discover your part, though, but it must have been fun working in a team like that. Anxiously waiting for the next!

Tangled-Universe · November 10, 2011, 04:22:47 AM

Cool commercial

Some of the TG shots were seamlessly integrated, some a bit less, but I must say it all looked very good and convincing!
Liked the work in the sky too.

Congratulations with this Hannes

What's next?

Cheers,
Martin

chris_x422 · November 10, 2011, 05:04:28 AM

Really nice job Hannes! well done mate!

Chris

Seth · November 10, 2011, 05:33:37 AM

good job dude

inkydigit · November 10, 2011, 07:36:12 AM

I echo all...very nice...well done indeed!

Draigr · November 10, 2011, 10:36:32 AM

Wow. That's an awesome job you did with the terrain and sky!

Kadri · November 10, 2011, 11:42:37 AM

Thanks Hannes

It is interesting that i saw the girl running in the end as a bad CG rendering but totally missed some other shots.
Girl holding the cup to his mom or the shot with the robot in the kitchen etc. Some are only comps but...
It seems if the context is not plausible it is easier to spot the post work.
If some of the scenes with the F16 would be directed a little more realistic we maybe wouldn't see some of the comp issues Martin(T-U) mentioned .
In fact some of the scenes from all these spots in general are a little on the too much CGI unrealistic camera moves side.
But then if Vestel is selling more there is nothing to complain about

TheBadger · November 10, 2011, 10:18:52 PM

Wow turkish fighter jets can really move! lol

Very good work Hannes! I only recognized TG2 terrains because I use the program, so I paused when I could spot a TG shot. The ones I could find were really good! Thanks for sharing your work, its very educational.
I asked my wife to watch and tell me what she thought was real and what was fake, it didn't even come up that the environment its self might not be real.

Oshyan · November 10, 2011, 10:28:03 PM

I really have no idea how this is selling more dishwashers (not that it's not appealing, but jets and dishwashers?), but it's always great to see more TG use! Keep it up Hannes.

- Oshyan

Hetzen · November 11, 2011, 06:26:17 AM

Great work Hannes. Thanks for showing us.

Was some of the air to air actual footage?

Hannes · November 11, 2011, 08:01:09 AM

Thank you all!!
@Hetzen: what do you mean by air to air? Sorry, I don't know this expression

Anyway, the scenes really high up in the air were mostly TG renders. Some of them combined with 3ds max renders with imported terrain and some hires textures. ...and a lot of trees and bushes!

Btw, sometimes it even was hard for me to remember what was real footage and what was TG-stuff.

Hetzen · November 11, 2011, 08:08:18 AM

Sorry another english expression. Some great textures there Hannes. Did you use bitmaps, or was it all procederal?