"MITE" from Walter Volbers
"MITE" from Walter Volbers
Hi there!
Walter Volbers finished his private project called "Mite"! Watch it and vote for it here:
http://www.bang-awards.com/en/movie/362-mite
Walter is senior animator at 58 in Frankfurt a.M./Germany and used Softimage, Arnold, Mootzoid, Momentum and other tools to produce this short. Great work..!!
cheers,
oli
Walter Volbers finished his private project called "Mite"! Watch it and vote for it here:
http://www.bang-awards.com/en/movie/362-mite
Walter is senior animator at 58 in Frankfurt a.M./Germany and used Softimage, Arnold, Mootzoid, Momentum and other tools to produce this short. Great work..!!
cheers,
oli
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Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
It get's my vote.
Very nice.
Very nice.
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Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
Get's my vote . . . couple of things though, if you don't mind:
Concerns:
- passageway needed a room service cart with detail, (Art direction was lacking)
- smallest keys in the world,
- deepest carpet in the world - but seemed convincing,
- dust mite sneezing sound effect was really really weak
Amazing:
- great transitions between environments (well done)
- Awesome sound design and effects (except the dusmite sneezing)
- Use of camera and framing was insane . . . felt very macro - IMPRESSED
- Awesome particle effects - scaling was just right
- love the natural performance of the parasites - convincing 'world'
- dust mite animation was perfect - alien and heavy . . . 5 stars from me
- detail was off the charts.
- Comp and grade were really great.
Overall . . . my opinion, sell this to CSI series (abc - I think) because this is next level, and they could use the concept originality in their shows I think?
Love your work and seriously well done . . . goodluck, and hope you win. Share a breakdown, and a write up of all your processes for the entire production, it deserves it.
Concerns:
- passageway needed a room service cart with detail, (Art direction was lacking)
- smallest keys in the world,
- deepest carpet in the world - but seemed convincing,
- dust mite sneezing sound effect was really really weak
Amazing:
- great transitions between environments (well done)
- Awesome sound design and effects (except the dusmite sneezing)
- Use of camera and framing was insane . . . felt very macro - IMPRESSED
- Awesome particle effects - scaling was just right
- love the natural performance of the parasites - convincing 'world'
- dust mite animation was perfect - alien and heavy . . . 5 stars from me
- detail was off the charts.
- Comp and grade were really great.
Overall . . . my opinion, sell this to CSI series (abc - I think) because this is next level, and they could use the concept originality in their shows I think?
Love your work and seriously well done . . . goodluck, and hope you win. Share a breakdown, and a write up of all your processes for the entire production, it deserves it.
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Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
+1 vote. Really liked! Great visuals.
The best is in the credits: "this film was done with the help of minimum 14000 software-crashes !".
The best is in the credits: "this film was done with the help of minimum 14000 software-crashes !".
Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
I just voted too. Very nicely done!
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Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
great work!!!
you got my vote:)
you got my vote:)
Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
Some lovely work in there! Voted
Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
Looks great man!
Voted as well.
Voted as well.
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Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
Hahaha ! The end got me !
Superb work !Love the lighting ! And a few particle here and there ^^
Superb work !Love the lighting ! And a few particle here and there ^^
Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
This was great and animation was superb, minor critic on weird dof transitions in some shots, voted What does those creatures say at very end of short?
Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
Hello,
thank you, guys!
some info: done in XSI/softimage, rendered in Arnold 1280*720, depthchannel in 2560*1440, comp in NUKE
resized to 2560 for Dof with frischluft then down to 1920*1080, longest rendertime 3hours22min/frame,
Camera-animation is one-shot (but fake in the beginning crashzoom(and short disolve) to the key,where i change the set.
In the beginning i start with MR but than i have to switch to Arnold(faster better stable...)
And now the production-time(no kiding)10Years!
Yes, 10years,but not every day, somtimes waiting for a software-update,changing every to Arnold was also a pain(new textures,new Ligthning and so on.)
Animation of the Mite took not so long (maybe 2weeks if i would work 8hours a day)
More info next Year!
SquirrelSa:smallest keys in the world, Your right, i thought i build everything in the right Dimension(damn)see attached picture ;)
origin What does those creatures say at very end of short? bless you(sorry that version is missing the subtitel(will be in the DCP-festival-version)
some sreenshoots
and thanks for voting,thanks Oliver
Walter
thank you, guys!
some info: done in XSI/softimage, rendered in Arnold 1280*720, depthchannel in 2560*1440, comp in NUKE
resized to 2560 for Dof with frischluft then down to 1920*1080, longest rendertime 3hours22min/frame,
Camera-animation is one-shot (but fake in the beginning crashzoom(and short disolve) to the key,where i change the set.
In the beginning i start with MR but than i have to switch to Arnold(faster better stable...)
And now the production-time(no kiding)10Years!
Yes, 10years,but not every day, somtimes waiting for a software-update,changing every to Arnold was also a pain(new textures,new Ligthning and so on.)
Animation of the Mite took not so long (maybe 2weeks if i would work 8hours a day)
More info next Year!
SquirrelSa:smallest keys in the world, Your right, i thought i build everything in the right Dimension(damn)see attached picture ;)
origin What does those creatures say at very end of short? bless you(sorry that version is missing the subtitel(will be in the DCP-festival-version)
some sreenshoots
and thanks for voting,thanks Oliver
Walter
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Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
That's amazing . . . thanks for the screen shots. So you worked all scenes/environments in one set, one camera move with obviously multiple passes? That's insane. It really works though. I was trying to work out how you would have blended the different environments. Well done though.
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Re: "MITE" from Walter Volbers
Excellent! Also Funny!
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