kdvideoblogenglish

Archive for January, 2010

Monitor Sci-Fi…update

Posted by Manuele Trullu On January - 26 - 2010

During the creation of some sci-fi elements for a job, I decided to create a few more so that I could share them with you.. The compositing was done entirely in After Effects. Each function is fictional, but many of the displays used in many film productions are born in a similar way. In the next hours I'll insert a short video of the "monitor" in action. If there are interested parties I'll include the entire project in the download section.

UPDATE: Video ready here on the top

UPDATE: you can download the project here

_____________________

KDVIDEO

Kdvideo.it

News

AVATAR

Posted by Manuele Trullu On January - 24 - 2010

Avatar is the new masterpiece by James Cameron. Looking at the video "behind the scenes," we are immediately made aware of the big and hard work that lies behind it. The project originated in 1995, known as "Project 880". The same Cameron left it on stand-by devoting his time to "TITANIC" while believing that the time and the technology of period were not ready for a similar project, then, in late 2006 Cameron had announced plans to postpone the film until 2009 to improve the aesthetics of special effects.

"Avatar is a futuristic tale set on a planet 200 years in the future; an old-fashioned jungle adventure with an environmental conscience that aspires to a mythic level of storytelling. The aspiration is obviously to tell a mythological story. "For the film I had to create an entire alien culture and language. To make it credible I need completely photorealistic CGI characters, and they'll get by using the fledgling technology of Performance Capture, which we are developing now. I spent the last 14 months working on the Performance-Capture: the actors interpret their characters, and then we animate them. What I always try to achieve is something mentally intriguing. I'll spend many months completing the visual effects for the film, and because of that it won't be released before summer 2009. It 'a challenge, and that is why I decided to do it." – James Cameron declared.

Also in 2006, Weta Digital signed a contract with 20th Century Fox for the realization of special effects for the film. The film was released in the traditional 2D format, but has also seen wide deployment in 3D and IMAX 3D. Cameron , who is a strong supporter of 3D as the future of the cinema, said that watching Avatar in three dimensions would be a richer experience since the film has been specially designed to be watched in that format. The final budget has been declared to be over 300 million dollars for production costs and another 150 million or more for promotion and marketing. To date the film has grossed more than 1600 millions of dollars across the globe . In 2006, Cameron said that if Avatar was successful, he would probably make two sequels of the movie. In response to international success achieved, Cameron has confirmed the real possibility of turning the two sequels.

______________________________

KDVIDEO

KDvideo.it

News

CINEM 4D MOGRAPH: cloner object +volume effector

Posted by Manuele Trullu On January - 23 - 2010

Another application of the "Clone Object" tool with the addition of "Volume Effector. In this example, an object "light" was cloned into XY space to form LED Display.
The Volume effector tool will serve to integrate a text object into led display.

UPDATE: The file is available to download page

_______________________________________

KDVIDEO

KDvideo.it

News

CINEMA 4D: Cloner object

Posted by Manuele Trullu On January - 23 - 2010

In this clip we see an example of "Clone Object" contained in the Mograph's module of Cinema 4D. The potential of this simple tool is remarkable and with few easy steps you can create some interesting scenes. The sample image was created by inserting an object library C4D (Zygote Man) as son of Clone Object, by setting the mode of the clone in "Grid Array". The background was created in Photoshop using the union of two different scenarios. The Final compositing (such as color correction) was done in after effects.

_____________________________

KDVIDEO

KDvideo.it

News

AFTER EFFECTS COMPOSITING

Posted by Manuele Trullu On January - 23 - 2010

Some time ago, for a video project I had the need to create an environments destruction caused by war or natural disasters.
The original video was fairly clean.
The more important elements in order to create a credible and appealing result are in my opinion the following:
1-Accurated choice of additional elements
2-Reproduction of physical effects that external factors could lead to the scene
3-Coherence of light and color between scene elements external scenary

The Web has been my source for dozens of public domain images. The second step was to create a composition that respects the rules of perspective in reference to the original scene.
I performed this step with Photoshop to create the debris and damage to the building.
The images created were then imported into After Effects where I made two main tasks:
-tracking movie in order to provide the exact coordinates for external images to move in the movie
-color-correction on each item and overall the whole composition.

______________________________

KDVIDEO

KDvideo.it

News