EVOL - A Futuristic Sci-fi Film - Produced By The Intrancer

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[LawrenceF]

Holy shit. Now - that - was impressive, thanks for sharing.

Student reel of Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation , all done by individuals .

[vurt]

How does EVOL compare to reaper or e.g. Bitwig? How is EVOL on the CPU? Does it load VST3?

it's the modern day answer to the questions left by babyasoft

[mgw38]

So once and for all ,stop bragging about your NON existent talent , it's time to wake up and let go of your inflated ego

That is a bit harsh, I feel. Sound design is very very good, imho. The visuals follow a bit the demo scene style which has its own retro appeal. The 3d work is weak but I don't think that was the main point. And quite frankly, this is also something that can be picked up relatively quickly. The tools used today make things very easy, even if you have limited talent for this stuff. The editing needs improvement but there is potential. In terms of visuals this is the type of quality of work we see coming out of high schools these days. (I run an academic department specializing on games, animation, vr/ar and vfx.)

Student reel of Gnomon School of Visual Effects, Games & Animation , all done by individuals .

That is pretty good, which is sort of expected for a well known school that specializes in vfx. They also have the critical mass they can select from. But to be honest, that quality of work has become pretty much standard expectation for any student in that field. If you cannot produce at that level, you simply cannot survive in that industry.

And for those starting with 3d , blender 2.8 is absolutly ACE

If you are starting out in 3d production and you are a student in a college or a high school, do yourself a favor and pick up the high end industry software the professionals are using. Almost anything in that field is free for students. Some is even free for any non commercial use. Maya, 3dStudio, Houdini, Nuke, Modo, Mari, Renderman, Substance, Unity, Unreal, ... you name it. All free.

[THE INTRANCER]

Currently downloading a 1.2 gig update for Pixologics ZBrush 2019...but anyway.

I pretty much had my own motivations for doing this.

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Project Plan

1. Create a vehicle to promote a product or products which have or may be created in the timespan available.

2. Integrate assets from older modelling projects that have been created previously, and assemble them into one big project.

3. Use that opportunity to further extend knowledge and skills...within all the programs used and do things that are not normally possible / or conventional.

4. Use visual created content as a catalyst to produce more new music with Studio One and vice-versa.

5. Integrate new video production equipment bought in the past 6 months.

6. Create an atmospheric story/environment to surround the product.

7. Push the hardware to it's absolute limit to determine the capacity in which it's able to produce the final result.

8. Set a limit to 12 months max or less and present it no later regardless of the end result and deliver the promoted product shortly after.

9. Evaluate the final project and aspects that one can focus on for future project development.

10. Utilise any content created for future use to aid future project developments.
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That was pretty much my 10 point project plan...

But I'll leave a question for you... How many separate pieces of music did you hear throughout it's duration ?

[mgw38]

ZBrush is good but rather limited in scope. If it is used, it is usually only as one element in a more complex production workflow. The best all-round 3d production software that is also free for non commercial use is Houdini Apprentice by SideFX. Learning to use that is never a bad idea if 3d production is on your to-do list.

If you are doing any form of video work, Studio One is not a good choice. You need something that can handle surround sound formats. If you are emotionally invested in Studio One, the easiest way to do that is to use Studio One for the actual production and then take the individual stems into a surround capable DAW (Pro Tools, Cubase/Nuendo, DP10, Reaper, ...) for surround mixing.

[THE INTRANCER]

ZBrush is good but rather limited in scope. If it is used, it is usually only as one element in a more complex production workflow. The best all-round 3d production software that is also free for non commercial use is Houdini Apprentice by SideFX. Learning to use that is never a bad idea if 3d production is on your to-do list.

If you are doing any form of video work, Studio One is not a good choice. You need something that can handle surround sound formats. If you are emotionally invested in Studio One, the easiest way to do that is to use Studio One for the actual production and then take the individual stems into a surround capable DAW (Pro Tools, Cubase/Nuendo, DP10, Reaper, ...) for surround mixing.

I own a licence for Pixologic's ZBrush, (since 2011) I don't use it regularly, but I indeed did use it for specific things. The 3D rendered cruise ship near the end which does have a fully modelled interior, but that's not really visible.. in the video (for a future project most likely). It was used for building construction among the 5 cityscapes that were created also.

I have Houdni (free version) installed, had it for about 4 years now, but it wasn't utilised, it's been ages since used it, and I believe the output is watermarked which is no good to me (not been to the site to check yet), and it's commercial offering isn't cheap either.

With Studio One, I've already got a request on their site for it, and I don't think I'm the only one, waiting for it to be fully integrated. However atm, it's not so much of an issue for my own project stuff. I do have Adobe Audiion CS2 version, I can't remember if it has Surround Sound support or not, I have my doubts though. I think in the next year Surround Sound in Studio One, is a good possibility with the adoption of Pro Tools features in recent times.

Cheers.

[mgw38]

Audition does surround sound, that is indeed an option. I actually use that myself sometimes.

One thing that has become increasingly popular is to work in game engines directly. The new engines are capable of rendering more than realistically enough for most purposes. If you want to work around the expensive commercial licenses of Houdini et al, you could just create everything in Unity or Unreal bypassing animation software completely.

[VariKusBrainZ]

A Wastes of 15 minutes, looked and sounded like an amateur B movie only with no plot line

[inkwarp]

ZBrush is good but rather limited in scope.

this thread is hilarious. if you think ZBrush is limited then you are just ignorant and don't know what you are talking about.

With Studio One, I've already got a request on their site for it, and I don't think I'm the only one, waiting for it to be fully integrated.

Fully integrated into what?

whoever made this video needs to understand it is awful in every aspect. it's infantile at best and no amount of self denial can change that. they have an ego like trump, only sees what they want to see. and damn the rest. if you have as much experience as you claim ( you don't obviously) this might have an iota of worth. as it stands it is terrible. stop posturing and go and learn something. join a forum to learn not to have a pissing contest into who can sound the deepest and sage-like. no clothes on this emporer as most replies have stated. listen and absorb the critiques and stop bullshitting.

[mgw38]

ZBrush is good but rather limited in scope.

this thread is hilarious. if you think ZBrush is limited then you are just ignorant and don't know what you are talking about.

Seriously? Right to the insult before switching on the brain first? Good luck trying to do crowd simulations in ZBrush, just to give you one very obvious example. ZBrush is good for what it does, but there is software out there that has more complete feature sets.

[THE INTRANCER]

Audition does surround sound, that is indeed an option. I actually use that myself sometimes.

One thing that has become increasingly popular is to work in game engines directly. The new engines are capable of rendering more than realistically enough for most purposes. If you want to work around the expensive commercial licenses of Houdini et al, you could just create everything in Unity or Unreal bypassing animation software completely.

Yeah.. I remember exploring the Unreal game editor back in the day, I was a bit of a pro online player in Unreal 2004 I remember, and pretty good in Battlefield 3, (143 world ranking isn't bad I don't think ) I watched the revealing of Unreal and it's Editor some months back, it is indeed pretty impressive in what it can do with realistic rocks and stuff. I'll have to look into that... but I kinda remember there being some usage restrictions, probably commercial use related I think... Unity is one application that I have fond memories of, not because I ever used it. but because Jason Busby (sadly passed away a few years ago of cancer) made tutorial video's for it in and around 2005 to 2008 over on 3DBuzz.com. I saw a YT video some time ago about how's it progressed... although it's never really appealed to me for some reason. I'm so use to modelling in conventional apps for so long and rendering right inside them... It does feel pretty weird when you invest over 3K over the years..and contemplate the prospect of moving to a free application in the same realm.... or sort of in the same realm.. Ofcourse importation of models and such isn't too much different in using GOZ to C4D back and forth, for asset transfer....So many options... available now, and requirements / licence requirements..

[THE INTRANCER]

I thought it would be fun to show how far, I've progressed in terms of cityscape artwork... . This dates back to what must be around 2002 / 2003 I think.



To here last year, where many assets (buildings) were taken and reused in the video...I thought about using it as a composite shot, in fact one of the cities does use sections of this city, but not as directly show. Instead I modelled as I mentioned previously the main buildings as a new scene separately. Polygons are in the millions and texture map sizes here are like 4000x4000 pixels, multilayered. A really heavy scene....


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Anyway...early to bed, early to rise...

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[gentleclockdivider]

So once and for all ,stop bragging about your NON existent talent , it's time to wake up and let go of your inflated ego

If you are starting out in 3d production and you are a student in a college or a high school, do yourself a favor and pick up the high end industry software the professionals are using. Almost anything in that field is free for students. Some is even free for any non commercial use. Maya, 3dStudio, Houdini, Nuke, Modo, Mari, Renderman, Substance, Unity, Unreal, ... you name it. All free.

Yes , the standard packages are maya , houdini , foundry nuke etc..z-brush etcc ,
Blender 2.8 has just raised the bar with a real time viewport render engine called eevee , too much to mention , the grease pencil update is capable of full blown 2-d
Blender has dynamic topo scultping , only surpassed by dedicated programs like z-brush
Point is , if you're starting out , blender will get you there , and it's just a matter of time before big studios will adopt it , it is already used in the pipeline and lot's of concept artists are using it ( lucas film ..big enough ) .
Tangent studios already blender ands some houdini for their latest netflix film 'nextgen''
This guy Jama Jurabaev works for lucas-arts ( amazingly talented dude ) ,

Also check out some videos by Yansculpts /heavypoly ( works for sony ) etc..
The recent 1.2 million dollar investment from epic games shows it , things are gonna change
Blender 2.8 is a real gamechanger and it's new ui is sublime