After being away from Savannah (and this project) for four months, I managed to find some free time to spend polishing it off.
One of the main things I learned during the Rhythm & Hues compositing apprenticeship was to push as much of the work as you can in compositing. The first problem with the [...]

Finally compositing, it feels so good to be back in Nuke. The color is still a bit off and I haven’t added all of the elements but it’s finally coming together.

I’ve begun the long process of rendering, these are all straight out of Maya, so they only highlight specific features that the final composite will have. This one shows the light on the wall, which will proudly display the sexy sexy shadows from the smoke. Ground and wall textures are nice and done.

This is a [...]

I’m just about finished with the rigid body dynamics (hard objects) and moving onto the soft bodies (mostly bent metal). It was a huge pain getting my macbook pro to run windows and use the graphics card for 3ds Max, not to mention how unstable my copy is, coupled with the also unstable plug I [...]

The Plate:

I convinced a few friends to all wake up at 5AM and come with me to Adler hall to shoot. Alex Moed helped shoot an HDR (and tried to do a bit of acting), Ibtisam Ahmed helped with timing and orchestration, and Nathan Kudla blessed us with his performance as the main character.
We decided [...]