Sunrise animation

[chris_x422]

Hi all,

I've just posted a sunrise animation and collection of short globe shots.
They were done for a tv ident.

http://vimeo.com/8965832

I'll try to get a proper hd version on my own site as soon as I get the time.

Chris

[cyphyr]

Beautiful animations
Did you use any of NWDA's presets (global cloud cover and the planet pack) or did you brew this up your self ? Either way great work, render times?
Richard

[inkydigit]

agree with Richard, very nice!

[chris_x422]

Thanks guys.

No presets were used.
Rendertimes were good for the globes, about 7 mins per frame, 2 mins for extra cloud pass.
Sunrise was heavy though, about 1 hour 10 mins per frame, on 8 core xeon machines.

Chris

[Hetzen]

Very nice work work there Chris. That sunrise is awesome, but also your weather paterns look very convincing.

That pyramids video is especially impressive. Were your dust clouds TG? Did you use several TG passes for the effect of building the city up, or was that all animated in one?

[cyphyr]

Extra Cloud Pass ? what do you mean by that ?
Not surprised by the Sunrise times, they can be very intensive
Richard

[chris_x422]

Extra Cloud Pass ? what do you mean by that ?

The original piece combines a fluid effect created in maya, that passes between the earth and clouds.
The extra pass ( just clouds , over a constant black shader on the ground) was generated to use as a matte, and also to generate a little extra post glow / effects.
I also rendered a quick diffuse grey pass to relight the fluids in comp. (can't show this version yet)

The render-times are worth the investment with terragen, fortunately my bosses agree.

[Henry Blewer]

I bookmarked this on Vimeo. I want to look more closely a them. I think I could do something like this in a couple years on my machine. This is very impressive.

[chris_x422]

That pyramids video is especially impressive. Were your dust clouds TG? Did you use several TG passes for the effect of building the city up, or was that all animated in one?

Thanks Hetzen.

The pyramid shot had to be done in a very short time, normally I would have broken out several passes, but this was done all in one shot.
The dust clouds were also generated in Terragen, animation of the buildings also in Terragen.

Cheers

Chris

[domdib]

I hope this question isn't too dumb, but were the clouds procedural, or image-mapped?

[chris_x422]

Hi domdib, no such thing as a dumb question, in this game at least.

They are a mixture of painted masks, image maps, and density fractals.

As a workflow, I often start out with painted masks, then ortho render these out, work up more detailed maps in photoshop based on the ortho render, then bring these back in as masks.

Hope that helps

Chris

[domdib]

Thanks. Fantastic work by the way! It's really good to see TG2 being applied like this in a professional context. It gives hobbyists like me a sense of its real power.

[Zairyn Arsyn]

thats a wonderful, well done animation

[EoinArmstrong]

Yeah - you know your stuff - really well done

[Kadri]

Great