As I’ve mentioned in a previous post I’ve been heavily involved in the preparation of the exhibition; however to give a little more information into my involvement I thought I’d make a quick post.

My main roles are that of a manager for the DVD team; however given the limited staff we have at our disposal I’m also the lead editor, graphic designer and I’m often required to work as a camera man, which includes not only the setup of the camera, but the lighting and the sound etc.

You can find examples of my work produced for the Made in Brunel DVD, Exhibition Showreel and Exhibition countdown here:

http://www.vimeo.com/madeinbrunel

*if you found this page while looking for vray render settings you may want to read the following forum discussion created while developing this interior scene – http://forums.3dtotal.com/showthread.php?t=57741*

Well my final piece of coursework has been handed in, so I thought I’d upload a few images.

I’d still class myself as being relatively new to 3D Max and this was my first attempt at:
1. An interior scene, 2. A photo-realistic scene, 3. An architectural scene, 4. Rendering with Vray.

The requirement for this assignment was to create either a short animation, a photo-realistic scene or an abstract scene. As you can probably tell from the images below, I had a go at a photo-realistic scene. Whether or not I managed to achieved this is debatable.. You be the judge.

I wasn’t overly satisfied with the shape of my jeans / t-shirts, so thought I’d try a render with and without:

Unfortunately the final etched glass table top crashed mid-render and with less that 7 hours to go, there was no way I was going to be able to render out the mammoth 15 hour render before the deadline. Luckily I’d rendered out the plain glass version the day before.

Below are a number of test renders, which illustrate a number of the issues I had while trying to get my material to function in the way I wished.

I’d actually completed the modelling process a week prior to the deadline, but encountered a number of problems with Vray that took me over a week to address:

I will hopefully find the time to render this camera angle out again; however I think I’ll give my computer a little rest for now.

The inspiration for the clothing store came from an ex-work mate, who is in fact starting up his own clothing store and asked if I could help him out with some visuals to show the mall he is currently in talks with.

My video has finally been completed and to see the fruits of my labour you can find it over at:
http://www.vimeo.com/779916 (high quality vimeo)
http://www.youtube.com/v/q6j5VzCW2DQ (low quality youtube)
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q6j5VzCW2DQ&fmt=18 (high quality youtube)

For a look “Behind the Scenes”:
http://www.vimeo.com/782815

Early Animatic:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J7l8adT8J-c

Documentation
PDF (23.1 MB)

The aim of the project was to produce a music video experience, which encompassed a variety of multimedia disciplines to visually communicate the journey and narrative within the music’s lyrical basis. The premise of a music video is in fact used as a filter and foundation to showcase my own personal abilities across a number of multimedia fields and professional software packages.

The music video has been moulded around the music base and is seen very much as one element and not as a separate entity.

A variety of animation techniques have been used to bridge the gap between two and three dimensional environments, which is felt will give the footage depth and personality, but also to provide and incorporate a deliberate visual deception and disorientation to the video’s audience.

We’re not actually taught Affects Effects, Animation or anything like that on my degree, so my project was all based on what I’ve managed to pick up while on a year’s placement at Wurmsers Television Graphics (www.wurmsers.co.uk) who have strong relationships with the major broadcast companies such as the BBC, Five, Sky, Setanta and Channel 4 to name just a few.

Edit 26/03/08:
Featured in NoFatClips! podcast and video blog
website: http://www.nofatclips.com/
podcast: http://feeds.feedburner.com/SitiamoTanto
direct link: http://dekku.blogspot.com/2008/03/josh-pike-fill-you-in.html

Edit 14/05/08:
Qualified as a Semi-Finalist in both Animation and Motion Graphics categories in the ADAA:
http://www.adaaentry.com/

Edit 31/05/08:
Chosen to receive the award of excellence in animation and appear in the Computer Arts Showcase 2008 magazine, which is included in issue 150, dated July 2008 [On sale from June 5th 2008]

Edit 23/08/08:
Featured in Computer Arts Projects http://jlponline.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/inspirational-project/

Edit 23/03/09:
Finalist in the Royal Television Society Student Awards 2009 in the Animation category