TG used in another commercial

Started by Hannes, November 09, 2011, 05:20:13 PM

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Hannes

The things I did were all procedural. But at Unexpected they mapped a texture onto the exported TG-terrain into the scene they animated the camera in. So they had the same camera move in a TG environment and in Max with the same terrain but with this texture. Steffen told me they rendered both and blended the two sequences together for some of the shots, but unfortunately I can't exactly tell you which ones they were.

Zairyn Arsyn

interesting commercial for a dishwasher, cool though, i like that TG2 is getting more usage in the industry.
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dandelO

I've been desperate to watch this since you posted it, Hannes but my dodgy temporary internet is blocking videos right now. Finally got a chance to watch it and I must say, great, again!
The only reason I know it's Terragen is because I know Terragen! The scenes are very well integrated and the only slightly 'wrong' thing I can see with it is the integration of the flying objects at certain parts against the rest of the scene.
This is excellent environmental artwork, when the generalised viewer can't tell the difference between your art and reality, that's when you know you've really done a good job, and in this case I think you've really done that.
Very nice and congratulations on your continued success, Hannes! :)

Hetzen

Quote from: Hannes on November 11, 2011, 10:43:55 AM
The things I did were all procedural. But at Unexpected they mapped a texture onto the exported TG-terrain into the scene they animated the camera in. So they had the same camera move in a TG environment and in Max with the same terrain but with this texture. Steffen told me they rendered both and blended the two sequences together for some of the shots, but unfortunately I can't exactly tell you which ones they were.

I'll have to look through it again. The background plates are all very convincing. Sure we can see hints of TG, but the blending is excellent. Your cloud work works because you've identified altitude layers which look like natural weather systems, rather than a cloud layer.

Bravo.

SteveScout

Hi!
A few comments from me as well .. yes, the 3D girl coming out of the robot was supposed to be shot for real, but then the time ran away and we had to do her digital in a short amount of time and not on a Hollywood budget. Inititally we planned to shoot everything for real - but then the girl was not allowed to be in the military area at all, so we could not shoot her for real in the talking scenes in the end, which is a shame because there was no real need to make a compositing shot out of them. So on the next day we recreated the light on a parking lot and filmed her in front of bluescreen - which ate up too much time, so we had to move to the kitchen before the actress had to leave and the location would be closed at a certain point as well .. that´s why the girl is CG.

Only in two shots the TG terrain rendered in Full-HD were composited with hires textures from 3dsmax, in all the other shots it´s "raw" TG from Hannes, which mostly needed only very little color correction to look good.
The worst thing about the production was the fact that there is no realtime representation of 3d clouds in the viewport and (even worse) no possibility to export dummies from these 3d clouds to 3dsmax - if we would have had some sort of geometry dummy that would represent the area where the volumetrics would be rendered later we could´ve animated the plane more precisely flying through them etc., so all of this was trial and error until a point where we said "no time anymore, hit render!". Beside that TG was terrific - and using our new rendermanager "RoyalRender" rendering animations was easier than ever before.

Glad you liked the commercial - just tell me if there are more questions, I´ll happily answer.

cheers,
Steffen

MKE

Quote from: Oshyan on 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

Well, take your little girl with you when you want to buy your new dishwasher. She will know which one can fly...  ;)

Martin

rcallicotte

Funny!  Very good, Hannes.  I can see your work and it feels like home, having seen you do this here.  Thanks for sharing.
So this is Disney World.  Can we live here?

freelancah

Awesome project! Nice work and thanks for sharing!