Sunday, April 12, 2009

3d Renders - Real or Fantasy?

We all try to preserve the best moments of our life in some way: we keep the rose-colored reminiscences, write about it in our intimate diaries, make photos that capture our radiant smiles and the blissful mood. When time passes and melancholy prevails over the positive tune, we skim our diary, look through the pile of glossy photos and in such a way turn over the unhappiness of the grey day. Besides the beauties of the day we try to chase in memory our own beauty and photos are known to be the best way to do it. Life moves, it flows too fast, we move forward and only photos save the offprints of our memory for the long time. You can argue that photos don’t give us the genuine idea about reality, cause’ they capture something or somebody only in one particular moment, but not in dynamics. Anyway, photography as long as other ways of rendering reality and people remains popular. One of these ways deals with 3D graphics with the help of which we can create the striking offprint of the existing world around us. These models render everything so exactly, that you become puzzled for a few moments and can’t understand whether it is reality or imagination.



This astonishing collection of people in 3D is especially for you.
Are they real or imagine?



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Title: Biker’s Eyes
Author: Andrea Bertaccini
Software: 3ds max, combustion, Photoshop
Portfolio here





The creator of this image has reproduced the biker girl in the perfect way. Everything here looks close to reality. Modelling and texturing are superb. The quality work!



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Title: Zbrush Character
Author: Sebastien Legrain
Software: ZBrush
Portfolio here





I like this very character because of its great rendering. This work is phenomenal due to the maturity of its creator and his diligence. Perfect and realistic!




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Title: Beauty Monica
Author: Mihai Anghelescu
Software: 3ds max, Photoshop, VRay
Portfolio here





Incredibly good! Looks quite similar to Monica Belucci. Due to the maturity of the creator the 3D model of the famous actress turned out to be so expressive and wonderful. It is super, without a word.



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Title: Girl Elbow Stand
Author: Alexander Tomchuk
Software: 3ds max, mental ray, Photoshop, ZBrush
Portfolio here





The image renders the girl that performs the elbow stand element. The author has done a great job and the girl looks not only really beautiful, but so realistic. Stunning work!



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Title: Star
Author: Alex Stratulat
Software: 3ds max, Photoshop, XSI, ZBrush
Portfolio here





This 3D model has captured the vitality of the real person: all the shadows, the expression of eyes and the texture of the face. It is easy to guess who it is. The recognizable work, beautiful and realistic.



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Title: All the World
Author: Glenn Dean
Software: Maya, mental ray, Photoshop
Portfolio here





This is my favorite picture from this collection. The lovely child that is pictured with such a maturity. Soft colors and the whole tone of this image make it really incredible. Just have a look and enjoy it.



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Title: Tyson
Author: Bryan Silva
Software: Maya, mental ray, Mudbox, Photoshop
Portfolio here





The author renders this outstanding figure on the box arena so realistic! This model of the famous boxer looks awesome, it is so real and natural.



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Title: Canny
Author: Lee Perry-Smith
Software: Lightwave 3D, Photoshop, ZBrush





This image gives the intensive impression! It looks so soft and true to life. The color scheme of the image is delicate and adorable. This 3D model is so charming and tender. The astounding image!



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Title: Klara Medkova
Author: Fabio M. Silva
Software: 3ds max, mental ray, Photoshop
Portfolio here





The author has created the image of the Czech supermodel Klara Medkova. The appearance of this girl is awesome and the way in which the creator renders her is gorgeous. Brilliantly done!



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Title: Fashiondolls
Author: Franz Steiner
Software: Maya
Portfolio here





This image shows the fashion robots that help the girl to find the right dress for the night. There are a lot of clothes in the chair and the girl is trying on all of them one by one. With such assistants she will certainly find the right dress for the upcoming night.



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Title: Future Girl
Author: Franz Steiner
Software: Maya
Portfolio here





This image is a sort of perspective view at the business in future. The author imagines it as completely perfected when all necessary things are handy and done in accordance with the needs of people. Creative and perfectly done work.



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Title: Song Hye Kyo
Author: Max Wahyudi
Software: 3ds max, ZBrush
Portfolio here





Here is the image of the famous Korean actress. This CG illustration is so close to photo and it is the most realistic that I have ever seen. Very impressive work … nothing else to be added.



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Title: Future Girl
Author: Franz Steiner
Software: Maya
Portfolio here





Exceptional rendering! The idea about the future in the author’s interpretation looks pretty good. Amazing work that captures the beautiful 3D model of the girl. It looks just great.



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Title: The Man
Author: Kleber Darcio
Software: 3ds max, BodyPaint, mental ray, Photoshop
Portfolio here





Really good and realistic piece of work that is done in 3D. All the details are worked out thoroughly and the image is definitely worth seeing.



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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

The Others - Cast & ADR Recording Info

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Friday, March 6, 2009

D II Screening Assignment 2


Marion - Prayers From The Inside

QUICK CUTS at the beginning. VO in BG good. Needs the sound of a rat in BG. BG Noise to loud overall. Radio FX a little loud overall. OOF shot NG - never use. Want a matching CU on big guy. MUCH BETTER.

Dir says - Prison track too loud.

Class sez: Tony cut around performance. Open to interpretation. SD elements. Tweaking on sd effects.


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JP - A View

LOW SOUND / Up in the roof/ Well visualized/ Tight CU/ 2 shot solid/ Break up on compression setting/

JP sez - Experimenting/ In Reverse of the ordinary/ Intimacy admist the metal and concrete/ Lots of great footage/

Class sez - good sound with construction noise/ visual effects and lights/

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Andrew - Script 7

No titles/ OOF Shot on CU/ Wide OTS. Good use of cutaways/ Close ups don’t match. “You deserve better” Trachea - OOF Shot. . I’ll do it.

Andrew sez - She’s not an actor. He is. Graham is. Only in CU for performances. Cutting around programs. Shot size difference.

Class sez: Good coverage. Able to work as tight as need be. Money and mc placement.

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Patrick - The Fighter

Green Screen experiment. Weird backgrounds. Into the story. Hard boiled. Cool and neat.

Patrick sez - Stylized material

Class sez: Understood stylized. Brave. Almodavr. Baz Luherman. Is a Visualsit.

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SING - “Two Inmates”

Beautifully cut and staged. Interesting and well performed. NOT FRAMED PROPERLY. Music not appropriate for ‘The Block’. Fade out too soon on ending. Met both of them 2 days before the shoot.

Sing sez - Use drama to set up action. No CU as a rule. Hard to use. CUT back and forth. Faded out early

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Timmy - “Forgotten Dope“

NO LETTERBOX = See the girl thinking DOLLY SHOT works okay -
Audio low

Timothy sez - Harder to edit - tired on this project. Sd discouraged me a little bit. Motivations for cuts hard to find. DOLLY MOVE FUN.

Class sez - Standard Coverage - CLOSE UP with her hand up.


D2 Screenings - Assignment #1

Assignment #1

JP - “Where There Is Smoke” - Script 1
Fancy titles - nice B/W treatment - coverage at the beginning a litle weak. Tight CU’s nice. Dialog cuts and rives the film. Overhead an interesting use of master. Slow fade out on credits a little long.

Director says - wanted an ominous hidden agenda - waited to see the man in the moment. Working the ending to his satisfaction. Wanted to end on him

Feedback - Color titles/BW - HA - When do we see his face. Spooky. Staging behind her. Sd added. Editing process intimacy. Shift in emotional content. Moving into her world. Very real.
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Timmy - “Brother’s Keeper” Script 7
Crossed Action Axis standing at the desk. Good cross cutting. Eyeline to wide to the right Good ending - ‘no booze’ - changed script to reflect their relationship. Good performances. Good BG noise.

Director says - Post enjoyable. Liked the two performers. Natural cutting

Feedback - Shot logic/ punctuation/ Matching CU - Timmy very buttoned down. From Very wide to tight.
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Andrew - “Script #1”
Holds on master for a long time. Good CU over to the boy. LONG TAKE CUTTING. Crossed Axis in first painting position. Painting cutaways. Cut into the zoom. Solid work on boy CU. No music. Needs a CU on her to complete. No titles.

Director says - Characters/ Wounded kid/ Puppy Dog with emotional baggage/ She is kinky master painter and she’s a predator. Dominating.

Feedback - No Titles. Longer take process. Light from the floor. Painting. Not connected. Meat. Zoom in on painting. I don’t know what he’s so screwed up? She’s not as strong as he is. Who wants to see someone so aloof.
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Marion - “Cold Feet”
Montage of pix over. Tight CU. Girl voice over. Drives story. Needs VO to clean up the work. Story a little muddled. Dress dream sequence? Needs a little work to clean up.

Director says - Getting there was hard. I love the B/W.

Feedback - A little confused about who is whom? 2 guys. Do you eliminate Charles and concentrate on the unseen predator.
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Sing - “Peel”
Good opener. Full reverse OK. BLK spot on edit. Stage in depth. CUTAWAYS to transpose cut. Need to clean up the editing process.

Director says - Color correction. MCU too dark. I don’t want to have two many cuts. Slower cuts. Blocking and draw peoples attention to the blocking. Use long takes.

Feedback - Cutaways are our friends. Car door. Technical efforts
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Patrick - “Roomates”
Flat and boring cut. Mismatching CU. Good music. Ominous.

Director says - I hate editing, It’s hard for me to do. Any movement scares me. Frankensteined together. I’m not sure it’s even coherent. Editing around holes in story and performance and movement. Fiddle forever.

Feedback - Good opener - performances vary. 2 different styles. Ominous music. A little heavy. Music A mistake to not block properly. Consideration before I am shooting. Intimacy is not clear.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009

EP Budgeting

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