AnimationCaptain's Yacht Animation

IRML

just trying to show off the low(ish) poly interiors from my enterprise model

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Psiz-LYNO70

http://www.vimeo.com/20113082

there are some things I'd like to change but by the time it was finished I couldn't be bothered to go back, I ended up with about 103gb worth of frames so I had to delete some, it was supposed to be like 30 seconds long but it just kept getting longer haha

the youtube quality is pretty poor even with the 1080p version, the vimeo one is better but only 720p I think

Melak

Nice!

wjaspers

VERY nice IRML, in fact better as nice, I think you call that fantastic.

One nitpick, don't like the, I guess, fish eye lens, at the start when the camera turns, and in the middle when the camera turns towards deck 14, guess that is a personal taste, someone likes this better, others like that better.

Anyhow, looking very realistic :thumb:

cavebear

I just watched this on a 47 inch monitor and it was amazing! The camera was a little jerky in transition from looking at the ceiling to the door. But my favourite part was when the Captains yacht dropped. The lighting! It was incredible

traq

my my, that was incredible

Polaris 004

Okay, wait a minute. Was I watching a clip on my computer or was I having a religious experience... Evidently you can do both at the same time.

James Midsen

Polaris 004 wrote: »

Okay, wait a minute. Was I watching a clip on my computer or was I having a religious experience... Evidently you can do both at the same time.

Right there with you. Holy ****!!! IRML you are freaking amazing! Have some people or something in there and there can be nothing better in the whole freaking world!

trekki

Is this cool, wow!!!!!!!!!!!

commandersozo

awesome, just awesome! thnx for that, IRLM!

locky

Really quite brilliant! And I rarely post.

Thank you for sharing IRML :thumb:

Coolhand

head-er, head-er, head-er... etc.

barry1

I can watch this stuff all day long, because closer to the enterprise we will never be. man, it was like walking on the filmset, great work

Dac

Ah...wuh.....dare I ask how long those frames took to render?

IRML

I think the longest one was 11 minutes, most of them were between 2 and 6 minutes, no idea on the total time though haha

Chris2005

"Lowish poly?"

On whose planet? lol.

My computer would take days to render just half of one of these shots.

Still nice though, I always wondered why they didn't include exterior shots in the windows besides stars in the movies, because in this video, it's clear you could see the warp nacelles, etc. from these shots.

srspicer

Absolutely brilliant!!

I agree with previous, perfect lighting, felt like I was really there, looked like the feature film, close as we will get to being on board. Just wonderful man.:):):)

Scott

TrekMD

Fantastic job!

oldmangreg

@IRML What kind of set up do you run?

Nice video BTW

mylex

Wow, there are no words to describe this work.

Only one...this animation has a real professional touch...could be come directly from ILM :-)

The depth of field of the camera is amazing.

Great job buddy

IRML

Chris2005 wrote: »

"Lowish poly?"

On whose planet? lol.

the waiting room is about 10000 polys, the corridor is about 6000, this is less than game res these days

oldmangreg wrote: »

@IRML What kind of set up do you run?

you mean my PC? it's a quad core with 8gb of ram, I don't think it's anything amazing these days, it is 3 years old I think so it's not like some brand new ubermachine

Chris2005

IRML wrote: »

the waiting room is about 10000 polys, the corridor is about 6000, this is less than game res these days

Ah, I think it's the raytracing, for the glass, etc. that cause the long render times then, any GI as well, because my computer can render something like that, in less than a few seconds without raytraced glass, etc.

For example, my avatar took like a minute+ to render that with V-ray, to say nothing about Mental Ray.

IRML wrote: »

you mean my PC? it's a quad core with 8gb of ram, I don't think it's anything amazing these days, it is 3 years old I think so it's not like some brand new ubermachine

I got a Quad Core, Intel Q6600, only 4GB RAM though, right now my HDD is my bottleneck.

Basill

Wow... I looked at your image first and couldn't figure out what was "new."
Since the Enterprise E isn't my favorite, I haven't followed your WIP too closely (will rectify ). At first I thought you'd put up some reference images of the briefing room set and screen shots to show where you were coming from design wise. I thought, "where's this captain's yacht?"
Of course, I watched the movie and had to reinsert my lower jaw after it crashed to the floor.

That's what I get for glossing over the post and rushing to the imagery. Just... Wow!

[Deleted User]

This is crazy good, how did you do the lighting? What renderer did you use? What program? Can I steal your genes? Scratch the last one....I'm gene intolerant, I work on caffeine and refined sugar. Seriously though, any tips on lighting and material setup would be much appreciated.

Pic-A-Card

Looks good man! At first I thought that subtle flickering was final gather, but did you actually put on a film type of effect in post? It works pretty well. Did you do a lot of baking for textures and lighting?

*edit* headered. hey that's a fancy new header system we got. At least, since the last time I used it

IRML

the interiors were baked, the yacht bit wasn't but there was no GI, I tried to be smart with seting up lights and bounce lights to make it look real, it worked out alright, the materials weren't very complex, just energy saving, the glossy surfaces were mostly blurry reflections but I used a bit of specular in there too, one of my early specular tests is up on youtube as well, I wanted to make sure I could use it in a way that was close to looking like ray trace reflections so it didn't lower the quality

there are a few different film effects there, but if you can notice the flicker so easily maybe I should have made it more subtle, something for next time I guess

tobiasrichter

awesome piece you did there.... looked very real!

VALKYRIE013

This is why I love my job!! SOO Much to learn... ya just never stop! Looks Amazing IRML !! congrats on the header1!!

A2597

wow. Brilliant man.

My only crit is lack of a spec layer on the exterior of the ship. I know, I'm not supposed to be looking out the window, but it caught my eye.

Aside from that, absofraginglitly beautiful!

Basill

I am still loving this. I especially love that purge of gas when the yacht drops down. Nice subtle (one of many) touch. I went and took a look at your WIP pages, and I must say I missed a lot.

I am curious however, and I didn't see any mention of it here or in the WIP thread, but how do those exterior hatch doors in the yacht waiting room open? There doesn't seem to be a lot of clearance wih the observation windows. Or do they open into the window divider (I just noticed that possibility)?

L2K

pretty cool.

good lighting, good models.
i'd only nitpick the solid blue engines coming to life.

Yaric

Very cool. I guess Picard thinks he's driving a hot rod. He tears outta there!

Only thing I can see that bothers me at all beside the wreckless driving is the blue engines firing up. Seems like they should do a little neon flicker on perhaps. Either way, sweetness.