6 Degrees Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Wow. I have to say the Smoothe video of the Robot Attacks is really impressive. The quality of their work just seems to get better and better. I hate to ask this but does anyone have any idea what a video presentation like that would cost and what the time to complete it would be. Congrats to the guys who worked on it. A job well done. Duane Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobM Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Hi I looked on the site and can not find it can you direct me please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Geoff Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 on the first page, bottom right - rotunda So can the building do all that then? bet the neighbours are happy. he he he no wonder they sold out in 2 hours Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig Ramsay Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Fantastic work It would be great fun to work on stuff like that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunGlare Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 Who?... Where..What? some link... anybody..heh? Please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted January 4, 2006 Share Posted January 4, 2006 It's in the front page news today. www.smoothe.com Click the Rotunda link at the bottom right of their page Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Fantastic stuff. I liked Chips, but this one I like just as much, or even more. Is there anybody around from Smoothe that can tell us anything about working on this project? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Woods Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 glad you all liked it. we worked very hard on it over a space of 2weeks production time. And a few weeks set up for rigging and testing. I'm a happy chap with the out come. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvlive Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Impressive! and yes, that would be great if someone from smoothe gave us some general idea on how they tackled this project. a feature interview maybe? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvlive Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 oops. slow typist here. if you dont mind, Tim, i've a few questions: how many ppl worked on it? is the team made up of generalists or specialists? how long did post production take? thanks in advance. Congrats on your great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Woods Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 we had some one on the interior section, and two people modelling matching lighting and comping the robot shots. then the production director took care of, editing and final comps and the overall look. so 4 people over a few weeks. all this production was done in the 2 and a bit weeks. as i mentioned before there was a little r+d prep time before hand. Rigging the tower with all the moving parts was a real pain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Nelson Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Wow, that seem like a LOT of work for just a few weeks and a few people. Congratulations! And if we could ever get an official interview on this project I would love to read it. I have this book on toy Robots, and I'm sure I've seen some of those robots from your animation in that book - or at least very similar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Woods Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Tim, yes it was hard work, but we had a great idea, so it was worth the pain. You might recognise some of the robots, actually all of them are real tin robots that we sourced, photo'ed and then modelled. and incase anyone asks, they arnt to scale in the end there were 5 robots of various degrees of complexity. in R+D we made a decision to get as much of the animation procedural and automated. so the tower was rigged with as few controls to drive the different parts. so most stuff was done behind the scenes. something like 2 or three controls per speaker and screen. the robots were all FK apart from CS rigged bits for walking. All shots utilised HDRI in some form, whether for reflections or just lighting. Getting all the reference shots when filming was also a pain. the whole production was shot, edited and comped in HD, this allowed much more detail to be put in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvlive Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 very impressive.....rigging, CS, procedural animation, etc.... in archviz....wow! not surprising but still mind-blowin. interesting indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Griger Posted January 5, 2006 Share Posted January 5, 2006 Fun project, great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
armilla Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Wow, fantastic work! Stunning quality and concept. You gotta love those retro robots. @ Tim: Did you use VRay for the rendering? Cheers, Andrew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil poppleton Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 you mention Hd , what format was this, as i understand their are 2 formats ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Woods Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 yes we used vray. and the HD was not the fullsize version. But it was double PAL size which was usefull for cropping into shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SunGlare Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Hi, I've just saw the videos from portfolio, and I'm really pleased. This is visionery. When I was impressed by www.pacificommultimedia.com or http://www.3d-win.com ..i thought "wow, thats top edge". Well it is, but what You guys do is another step forward. Fort Dunlop? - Bravo! Q: What does it mean "sold in 2 hrs"? Are You selling this motion pic? Q: What do You use for post-prod [fire/combustion or premiere/a.effects]? Thanks for link Jeff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Mottle Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Q: What does it mean "sold in 2 hrs"? Are You selling this motion pic? The purpose of the animations is to sell real-estate, and typically well before the project even breaks ground. Sold in 2 hours likely means they started a marketing campaigns weeks in advance of the official opening where you can reserve or buy your unit. Once the sales office opens, all the units were spoken for in 2 hours. A very impressive feat. BTW, I'll be posting interveiws on both CHIPS and Rotunda in the coming weeks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Woods Posted January 11, 2006 Share Posted January 11, 2006 Hi, Q: What does it mean "sold in 2 hrs"? Are You selling this motion pic? Q: What do You use for post-prod [fire/combustion or premiere/a.effects]? Thanks for link Jeff. as jeff said....they sold all the apartments that the film was promoting in 2hrs. which was a first. As for post, i'm sure this will all be covered in the interview, but it was After Effects. Editing in Premiere. I'm sure Jeff's interview will cover most of this stuff, but if there is anything else then fire away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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