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Title: ISS animated
Post by: Hannes on May 02, 2017, 03:48:33 PM
Here is a little animation of my space station. I rendered the background separately from the station. Two different files. I tried to match the lighting, and I think it worked.
For the staion I used some heavy frame blending in AE, which helped a lot to get rid of the noise of the micro displacement of the aluminium shader.

Actually after I finished the animation I watched Gravity and I was tempted to delete what I just created...  Insane!!!
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: archonforest on May 02, 2017, 04:13:12 PM
WOW!! Fantastic! 8) 8)
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: luvsmuzik on May 02, 2017, 04:29:20 PM
All about the process! Just great! What an accomplishment!
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: DocCharly65 on May 02, 2017, 06:29:44 PM
Congratulations, Hannes! Marvelous work!

Good that you did not give in to your urge to delete :)
... never compare what we do here as mostly single persons and look how many designers and animaters, matte painters and and and ... they have for those films ;)
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: Hannes on May 03, 2017, 12:55:11 AM
Thanks, guys.
And yes, Nils, you're right of course. I remember someone saying in the Making Of Gravity, that if one single person with one single computer would have done all the CG stuff of that movie, he would have had to start in 5000 B. C.  :)
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: DocCharly65 on May 03, 2017, 02:54:22 AM
Bad news for me, Hannes ;D
Means, that I will need until 9020 instead of 2020 to finish my film ;D
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: Dune on May 03, 2017, 03:14:28 AM
Terrific!
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: Hannes on May 03, 2017, 05:56:47 AM
Thanks again. I just found that the station has the wrong orientation.  :(
Well, I won't do it again...
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: KyL on May 03, 2017, 09:15:10 AM
really nice one, congrats Hannes!
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: j meyer on May 03, 2017, 11:54:53 AM
 8) Nice to see.
Wrong orientation....hmh, maybe they had to change it to avoid a collision
with some piece of space junk or so. Most likely 'Top Secret' anyway. ;)
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: masonspappy on May 03, 2017, 07:32:35 PM
That is a great animation!!
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: Oshyan on May 05, 2017, 08:21:59 PM
Looks quite good Hannes! If you rendered out to EXR I would only suggest doing some highlight soft clip or tone mapping to get rid of the overexposed areas a bit (not totally, that would look unrealistic). I imagine you may have already done some of this, but it still looks a bit too harsh on the planet itself, not so much the space station (where I'd expect it more in a way).

Anyway, this whole thing has been a great project. :)

- Oshyan
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: inkydigit on May 16, 2017, 06:35:30 AM
super work, looks great!
:)
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: Jo Kariboo on May 16, 2017, 08:41:20 PM
Excellent!!! look very realist too!
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: otakar on May 19, 2017, 04:29:22 PM
Well Hannes, if you are comparing your work with Gravity, you know you've already succeeded (and that is a crass understatement).  My only regret is that it is not longer...
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: Hannes on May 20, 2017, 08:03:04 AM
Thanks for the encouraging words, guys.
In the meantime I did some tests with this model. Initially I edited and textured it in 3ds max, so I worked a bit on the textures and rendered an animation in Max using the inbuilt Mental ray renderer. In this particular case (ISS in space) I found that it's a lot easier to get much better results rendering the station in Max than in TG. Of course this is no surprise, since TG is a fantastic program with landscape rendering as main purpose, and it does a great job, and I'd say, it's a great additional feature that you can render objects with special materials in TG as well, so this is no complaining!!!!!
Title: Re: ISS animated
Post by: dorianvan on May 28, 2017, 12:10:20 PM
Loved Gravity! It's been a while since I saw it, but I can't see how your's could be improved upon, unless you put a phone booth sitting somewhere on top.