CGI - Music - Movie - just stuff ya know

[Le Celticant]

Hello,

if i was making anything i wouldn't doubt a second to hire you.

this is good.

Thank you very much!
I can't promise you anything but:
If I have the time and you need help for something on a project,
give me a call  ... I mean PM 

if i was making anything i wouldn't doubt a second to hire you.

this is good.

I was thinking the same. This is amazing! If I didn't know I'd probaly think the snowy cliffs were real.

What 3D related programs did you use before Vue?

Thank you,
Haha Vue can easily cheat your eyes!
E-ON softwares made a great VFX tools
and many movies including LOTR & AVATAR
used it. The quality is astonishing yet I am
having some troubles as you can see with the
sky and some flat area where pixels "blend"
and it creates this sort of weird aura thing.

Before Vue hmm...
I think my first 3D software was 3Ds max.
I made a small space ship.
Very primitive and bad looking but I was proud
to do it at the age of 10 - 12 if I'm correct.
Then I moved to DEdit ( My first <3 ) where I
did map for AVP2 between 2001 to 2008.
I was expecting a SDK for AVP 2010 but SEGA...

Now I'm cool with Maya, trying to learn it, it's complicated
but it has all the power to do whatever you want.

I've also made some maps with the UDK / Unity / WEdit / The ogre engine
And before Vue as a terrain generator I used Terragen 2.0
Problem with terragen was you had to do 1000000 things while with vue
You can compile everything into 1.
It's much faster to work with and VFX = Time = Money, sadly.
But both can achieve the same thing, it's a matter of taste & color.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TO3Qeg83is#ws

Nnng so good.

Thank you OmegaZilla!!

Here as promised are the two other renders I have done today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t642T8nZl9g#ws
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OV4cM_fxeIE#ws

I am satisfied with the look of the Galaxy.
But, I do not like how the nebula looks (3 hours to render and meh... f*ck)
I'll improve everything and the next time you'll see this is in a short film
entirely made of VFX called "Space & Time: Beauty of the Empty"

By the way, I was at a conference about George Méliès today
(the guy who invented Special & Visual FX when the cinema
was born).
Got the chance to look for the first time to some lost archives and
I have to say, even if the films are old of a century, it is still astonishing
how the guy used a camera to make you believes things.
He was a genius, one of the Father of the cinema, RIP.

[Le Celticant]

Hello,

Still about space, here is another nebula, this time based on a picture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hyBtI5H9XA#ws

[OmegaZilla]

There aren't words...

[Le Celticant]

Hello,

The only scene in the trailer from Prometheus that inspired me.
Was about to add the tagline "Prometheus Could lead Alien to its end"
but... nevermind 

Made with Vue 9.5 & After Effect.

[Le Celticant]

Hello,

A new version improved (accuracy) with the nostromo this time.



Nostromo model by James Medcalf textured by me.

[OmegaZilla]

Oh so amazingly good. The engines textures is dead-on accurate to the Nostromo explorer ship, too! Whoa.

[The_Silencer]

Outstanding material, indeed. Congrats. man!

On the Nebula - After effects one: Would be a good idea make a version of it in order to make it look like as you're watching the impressive scene from the inside of a predator spaceship?. You could crop a frame of the movie for it.. just an indea though!

[Le Celticant]

Thank you everyone!

@OmegaZilla
The Nostromo model is in indeed very very close to the original.
I had an heart attack when I opened it in Vue!!! 

@The_Silencer
I don't plan to do anything with the nebula.
It was done as an experimental work to "test" how I could
achieve such space effect.
But of course this will be use in future work 

[Le Celticant]

Hello,

While setting up my future website I got the idea to give
for free ultra wide panoramic scene to use as matte painting
for everyone doing VFX.
Here is a preview:

Put it to High Res to see all the details.

Here is an example of work done quickly (so not perfect at all):


Composed from the matte and those 2 images:



I added some snow / smoke trail too.

[OmegaZilla]

The matte looks practically photoreal... it seems like I'm looking at an actual mountain formation. Brilliant.

Great compositing as well, the trail is great. The only defect I reckon is that you can see some evident pixels on the snowboarder's hat.

[Le Celticant]

@OmegaZilla:
Thank you!
I do also blame the quality of the snowboard guy, pixels pixels...
I'll do something more convincing with this matte in the future
(in motion for the pleasure of your eyes!)

I've completed a short I was working on.
(Several weeks of work)
to finally present it to you:
http://www.festivalnikon.fr/videos/view/id/1134

Don't hesitate to vote for it if you can, the entry
is for a film festival purpose and the winner will
have his short film projected into all the MK2 cinemas
in Paris (kinda a big thing).

[Le Celticant]

Hello,

I did this today as experimental stuff.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgc38erM9GI#ws
I think I can improve it, could be a nice sequence for a short.

[OmegaZilla]

Superb! The only small problem I could find with it is the evident 'passage' from one stage of the "Stargate" to the other. Otherwise excellent.

[Le Celticant]

@OmegaZilla:
Yup the transition is a bit weird.
Gotta change this if I want to include in any future
project.

So, I've finally dig a bit Maya and its power.
Following a tutorial, I've made this:

I hope to learn soon about Diffusion & Bump map
so I can create an ultra realistic earth map.

I've also take a look at 3DS Max & FumeFX.
The purpose of this plugin is to make fluid / smoke
by using particles.
Right, now, I'm thinking to learn it and compile a scene:
Earth from space (Maya)
Earth from ground (Vue)
Asteroid crashing on Earth (FumeFX + AE compositing).

Should be quite impressive if I manage to do it 
Not before a couple of weeks anyway.

Hello,

Here is the render of an animation I've done with MAYA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-0TqEfu5hA#ws
I also started to learn Modeling.
Hopefully, I'll get something out with Maya soon. 

[Le Celticant]

Hello,

My future house made with Maya (kinda empty I know).

Nature done with Vue 9.5

For a first attempt to model with Maya I kinda like it.
I mean, it wasn't like I was going to do Optimus Prime for a start