Because I can.
So Diamond Awards was held about a week ago, so I thought I'd just make a short post about it here. N-Gon Studios won the prize for "Best student work - 3D Filmproduction" with our short film Subway Trouble. That was a rather nice surprise, and a awesome way to end our time at Noroff.
Øyvind indirectly challenged me to model and render our trophy, so I spent a couple of hours the day after to create this.
Because I can.
We've been nominated for Diamond Awards this year and because of that we had to put together a 30 seconds teaser trailer for Subway Trouble. Diamond Awards is basically just a show by Noroff displaying student projects and giving out some rewards.
Anyways, here's the teaser.
Here's the final render edited by Ole Petter in Premiere Pro. The voice acting was done by Øyvind.
Go to Vimeo to watch it in HD.
I'm overall quite happy with the end result. All things considered. But if we had more time on our hands I would've certainly looked more into the cinematography and pacing of the film. Now that I can see the film as a whole I feel it's not right there. Would also like to fix some of the flickering issues and some bad geometry triangulation causing shading problem. But these are stuff that will require re-rendering of a bunch of shots.
Big fan of the ending though. That was awesome. :)
No kidding. We're rendering out our very last shot while editing the final clip like crazy. It's insanity really.
We've got a couple more hours tomorrow before deadline so there shouldn't be any problem finishing on time, I hope...
It's very rare you are able to render out your desired output straight from the 3D renderer. Compositing is a important part of most CG projects because you can play with the lighting and colors as you wish without having to adjust and re-render the entire scene to get the look you want. It can also be of great help to create that distinct and unique art style for a animated film.
Compositing EXR sequences in After Effects is a pain in the ass and consumes RAM like nothing else, so I sat down and thought myself how to use Nuke, a professional dedicated compositing software, and man am I glad I did. Nuke beats the living shit out of After Effects' sorry ass when it gets to compositing heavy 16-bit images.
I've been spending the last few days compositing every shot we've rendered out and handed everything over to Ole Petter who is editing everything together in Premiere Pro.