Here is a short "Happy new year"-animation made by Unexpected, the FX company I already had the pleasure to work with a few times featuring an in Germany well known comedy duo named "Badesalz".
http://vimeo.com/116665269
It doesn't really matter that those who don't understand German don't know what these guys are talking about. Something about stolen rockets and a discussion about some rather unknown warm places on earth ;).
I made the island scene in the second half of the clip. The palms are animated using the mesh displacer. The water is animated as well and I also used a caustics image sequence made with the free caustics generator.
The surf is created using a painted shader for the rough shoreline and an animated power fractal for the foam pattern and it's displacement.
Wow, that is a great little movie, really enjoyed it! Your island is amazing, especially the very convincing tree movement.
I agree, impressive work! I'll be sure to give it a little more exposure on social media a bit later in the week. :)
- Oshyan
Very nice and sweet work Hannes.
Mein Deutsch hatte(!) a very hard time to understand what they said in the first part :o :)
Thanks guys. Yes Kadri, they have a strong "hessisch" dialect. They are from the area near Frankfurt, about 70km south of where I live. My dialect is a bit different, but nevertheless it makes me feel like home when I hear them talk (nonsense).
I used to live near Darmstadt (Niederramstadt) Hannes :)
Ah, that's Hessen too!
Nicely done Hannes! 8)
Sabberlott - ei is des gut... 8)
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Great work!
(I studied in Dieburg... feels like 1000 years ago)
A lot of Hessekniddel here!
(Don't ask for a translation...) ;)
I was only guest there for 3 years - But was a nice time. :)
Now since over 20 years near Stuttgart but I still cannot "write" the slang - even google translator can't help ;)
Enjoyed this; very good work Hannes.
Man Hannes, for a retired guy, you sure do a lot of work! Good work too. Very funny short. ;D
Agree with the rest of the crew here, and great innovation with the palms...