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El Burritoh
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Yellowday

Post by El Burritoh » 01 Oct 2014, 23:11

We're pleased to show a project we worked on back in April called Yellowday. Some links:

Our Write-Up
Official Site

This was a feature-length project that intertwines live-action footage with full CG animation. We delivered about 25min of full CG animation, all rendered in Redshift, and for the most part comped in Fusion. By the time animation was done and we got into rendering, we had very little time left on the project. We did sims, lighting, and rendering on ~75 shots in about 30 days, on anywhere from 12-15 multi-GPU machines. It's not really a render 'farm' at that point, it's more like a 'garden.' :-)

Our 'garden' used a mix of single-Titans, triple-titans, and dual-770s.

The story required that we have a 'bright day' world and a 'dark night' world, the former looking bright and colorful and the latter looking dead and dismal. We also had a couple of interiors.

All the exterior shots were rendered with Brute Force. The interiors used BF + IPC. I think the longest frame times we had, on the heaviest exterior shots, averaged ~45min per frame, with the Triple Titan machines doing those in about 15-16min each. Many shots were obviously far less than that, around 5-10.


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Some lookdev frames...

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FXDude
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Re: Yellowday

Post by FXDude » 02 Oct 2014, 05:24

Man that grass.. and the trees are just amazing! Very good (and super-FAST.. both creation and rendering) work!!

Edit: and that rocky ground detail.. all of this would have been entirely possible in Maya or Max... but...

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Re: Yellowday

Post by Bullit » 02 Oct 2014, 07:06

Very Nice. What res? Full HD?

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Re: Yellowday

Post by El Burritoh » 02 Oct 2014, 14:23

Res was 2k.
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Re: Yellowday

Post by FXDude » 02 Oct 2014, 14:59

Also, The characters are very sylized and expressive.. nice work!

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Re: Yellowday

Post by ActionArt » 02 Oct 2014, 15:42

Wow, that's just incredible! Thanks for sharing. Fantastic lighting.

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Re: Yellowday

Post by Draise » 02 Oct 2014, 18:52

THIS IS SO ENCOURAGING AND IMPRESSIVE! Wow, amazing talent, and the pipeline, beautiful.

Thanks for sharing!

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Re: Yellowday

Post by xsi_fanatic » 02 Oct 2014, 22:43

Jaw dropping visuals ... :-o

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Re: Yellowday

Post by Tenshi » 29 Oct 2014, 02:30

mother of...
This is amazing! Congrats!

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Re: Yellowday

Post by FXDude » 29 Nov 2014, 00:13

New clip up on Soft.TV :o]

http://softimage.tv/yellowday-animation-highlights/

With some magic transforming desolation into ...
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(Done using allegedly magical software (*) )

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