I had the chance to create another landscape for a commercial for Huawei made by Unexpected again:
https://vimeo.com/300995733
First it was made with Robert Lewandowski, a famous german soccerplayer (whom I didn't recognize the first time I saw the shots. Embarrassing... ;)). But after my work was (already) finished, they told me, that they were about to do some shots with Gal Gadot in London. As you can imagine it made me freak out, knowing that Wonder Woman will be in my scene.
Hope you like it.
Impressive!!
And very well done :)
Looks absolutely gorgeous - I mean the landscape.
Quote from: digitalguru on November 17, 2018, 10:56:16 AM
Looks absolutely gorgeous - I mean the landscape.
...not only the landscape I'd say... ;)
Fantastic work - very well done!
8) Cheers. :)
Looks absolutely fantastic, Hannes. Really enjoyed the scenery, and Gal Gadot is a great new actor
Nice work Hannes.
Holy cow that looks amazing! I love the forms and the transition of cold to warm lighting.
Would love to see some making of or breakdowns of the commercial.
Quote from: Yanik on November 17, 2018, 03:51:24 PM
... Would love to see some making of or breakdowns of the commercial.
Ditto, definitely intrigued.
Awesome work Hannes
Wow, dang, that looks fantastic! Is all of the background stuff yours Hannes?
- Oshyan
Wow, did you do it all except her or is green screen majorly involved...most impressive work in any case man.
Congratulations, Hannes, on yet another stunning piece of work! Great to see your TG stuff get to the public.
Amazing! 8)
Wow, thank you all!!!
The landscape and the skies except the coloured one at the end is created by me. There may be some parts in the foreground where Gal is standing, especially in the second scene, that may have been shot by camera, but since I tried to match my scenes with the ones they originally shot, I can't tell exactly...
However I provided Unexpected with four or five scenes with some animation testing, and they animated the cameras.
I'll ask Steffen, if there's some Making Of.
Quote from: Hannes on November 18, 2018, 03:49:17 AM
Wow, thank you all!!!
The landscape and the skies except the coloured one at the end is created by me. There may be some parts in the foreground where Gal is standing, especially in the second scene, that may have been shot by camera, but since I tried to match my scenes with the ones they originally shot, I can't tell exactly...
However I provided Unexpected with four or five scenes with some animation testing, and they animated the cameras.
I'll ask Steffen, if there's some Making Of.
The integration between background and foreground, as well as camera focus really gives it a photo-realistic feeling. Very cool landscape to. Volcanic or alien-esque.
The first camera shots were initially made in Iceland. Then Steffen asked me to create a similar landscape, and since the clients wanted it to look a bit more dramatic, Unexpected decided to replace most of the camera footage by TG stuff.
I can tell you, it was really tough. I made the experience that it's really tricky in TG to make the terrain changes the customer wants. "Can you make this special area a little more flat?" or "Can you move this particular spike to another place, leaving the rest as it is?" took a lot of time, using dirty tricks, and I sometimes was dreaming of some sophisticated terrain sculpting features in TG (without using 3rd party apps) that keep the details. The notion of features like in ZBrush, like a flatten brush or other ones would be a dream come true.
Nevertheless after all this work it was a pleasure to see how Unexpected put it all together.
Just asked Steffen, if there will be some FX breakdown or making of, and it will. Going to post it here as soon as it's done.
Quote from: Hannes on November 18, 2018, 06:01:36 AM
Just asked Steffen, if there will be some FX breakdown or making of, and it will. Going to post it here as soon as it's done.
Awesome, be great to see the process
Awesome, so great Hannes!
Looking forward to the making of. This is so impressive, beautiful work and it's a pleasure to see your work get such wide distribution. Congratulations!
Outstanding!!
Quote from: Hannes on November 18, 2018, 05:20:18 AM
The first camera shots were initially made in Iceland. Then Steffen asked me to create a similar landscape, and since the clients wanted it to look a bit more dramatic, Unexpected decided to replace most of the camera footage by TG stuff.
I can tell you, it was really tough. I made the experience that it's really tricky in TG to make the terrain changes the customer wants. "Can you make this special area a little more flat?" or "Can you move this particular spike to another place, leaving the rest as it is?" took a lot of time, using dirty tricks, and I sometimes was dreaming of some sophisticated terrain sculpting features in TG (without using 3rd party apps) that keep the details. The notion of features like in ZBrush, like a flatten brush or other ones would be a dream come true.
Nevertheless after all this work it was a pleasure to see how Unexpected put it all together.
Oh wow. Sounds like a lot of work. :O also that reminds me of a terrain tool Matt said he'd reveal later this year. Wonder if we'll see that sometime soon.
Bravo! Bravo! Great work Hannes!
Beautiful work Hannes, congrats !
Great to hear there will be a breakdown! Looking forward to that.
We are definitely on the same page with the need for easier direct editing options and Matt has some ideas that he's working on as time allows.
- Oshyan
BIG CONGRATS on this! Futuristic landscape very cool! :)
Congratulations Hannes! :)
Great integration of your great (and indeed dramatic!) work into the final footage. Well done!
Quote from: Oshyan on November 18, 2018, 05:55:11 PM
Great to hear there will be a breakdown! Looking forward to that.
Reading here it seems Hannes only asked thus far, but hasn't heard anything yet afaik?
Groovy! You really can't tell what's rendered vs real.
That's some crazy good skills!! Looks fantastic, I wouldn't be able to do something like this even with a 2-years-deadline :D
Your comment about TG being difficult to art direct resonates with me, any addition to make this easier is welcome. I think it's one of the less intuitive aspects of nodal systems, as good as they are in other areas.
Great work Hannes. Looks great.
Really good job mate ! You can be proud of yourself and your work!
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What software did you use to create the landscape and this ?
Quote from: iaminonsiner on December 04, 2018, 08:39:14 AM
What software did you use to create the landscape and this ?
Well... Terragen. ;)
Masked areas with twist and shear shaders and a lot of displacements.
Thanks, by the way!!!!
Here is the Making Of:
https://vimeo.com/303516255?fbclid=IwAR10YOcWnkkawTFb7zQuqMraHUc89GNwPY_4S0p2Tc67RGIUSASl7DUMc5Q
Congrats again :)
Thanks for sharing Hannes.
Excellent! I love seeing shot breakdowns. Time to post this to our socials. :D
- Oshyan
I'm a little late on the news! Congratulations Hannes!
Thanks Hannes !
Yeah, thanks a lot. Great to see this!
This is just great stuff. Congratulations again Hannes.
love the making of vids as well, and again, well done.
Thanks guys!!!!! :)
Hey, the Huawei Mate 20 commercial you worked on is featured on the SideFX Houdini vimeo now as well.
CHeers, Klaus
https://vimeo.com/369389584
Oh, that's nice! Cool to see Steffen and Alex in the clip. We had some weird and funny conversations via Skype during the process. Unfortunately Gal Gadot didn't participate....