Lighthouse by Promotion Studios and Exopolis

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Here is a fantastic work from Promotion Studios. Great job guys!

James Neale (producer), Stefan Wernik (animation director), Matt Ebb (lighting/shading/td), Tristan Lock (lead modeller), Jeremy Davidson (lead animator), Kim Neale (matte painting), with Lee Salvemini (animator), Hamed Zaghaghi (ocean sim development), Enrico Valenza (assistant texture artist)

Exopolis:
Charlie Short (director/writer), Ming Hsiung (director/production design), Michael McCarthy (producer)
Agency: Hill | Holliday

Recently we, ProMotion Studios, completed a short film for the American insurance firm Liberty Mutual commissioned by the ad agency Hill | Holliday, for the LA creative studio Exopolis. Lighthouse appears as part of Liberty Mutual’s ‘Responsibility Project‘, a series of short films distributed online, centred on the theme of responsibility.
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    • http://www.venomgfx.com.ar venomgfx

      Congratulation guys! Greeaat work, Matt you rock! :)

      Link to CGTalk thread:
      http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?threadid=646518

    • Cinmay

      Extremely nice work guys. Really professional level. Ten thumbs up!!!!

    • FinSteve

      Great work! The lighthouse keeper must be related to Proog!

    • http://www.cuby.co.nr Cuby

      Really impressive film! I saw this the other day from Blender Artists and loved watching it. The rendering and animation is just superb!

      Nice work guys…

    • http://www.anicator.com AniCator

      Awesome short film!

    • http://pitel.borec.cz Pitel

      I love the raytracing of the lighthouse’s lense.

    • http://mke3.net Matt

      Thanks for the kind words, we appreciate it!

      As well as those listed in the credits, I should thank Joshua Leung for being responsive and helpful to us with animation features and fixes (in particular a crash we were experiencing while animating) but also Andrea Weikert, without whose work on the Windows ‘memory map’ functionality, the movie would have been a lot more difficult, or perhaps impossible, to render.

    • Duranial

      It’s a really inspiring animation, with a professional level, I hope we can see more of these shorts more often…

    • http://www.decent.fi Hannu

      Easy way to tell if any clip is good are goosebumps. I got them while viewing this. Overall mood was very immersive.

    • http://www.taddmencer.com Tadd

      It is a great animation. Very well done.

      And what’s funny is I JUST watched this last night. Pretty funny.

    • coodle

      I already left a comment on BlenderArtists but I just have to say again how much I like the film!
      It’s true that the lighthouse keeper looks and especially moves like Proog (the movement of the neck and the head are very typical, it’s almost a bit bird like).
      Wonderful piece of art!

    • Aka

      @Matt – will there be a longer making of or something like that? It would be nice to play with lighthouse keepers rig.

    • MrNoodle

      Proffesional quality animation.Bravo!

    • Þiðrekr

      Absolutely beautiful. Thanks for sharing a hi-res version, along with that brief “making of” video.

      I’m glad to see Blender being used more in professional capacities.

    • http://www.chronosom-studios.de DingTo

      Excellent work guys. Really cool to see how Blender is used in this pipeline!
      I love the story, and the emotions of the characters. Great!

      Will there be a HD version to download? Or can you buy it in HD?
      Thanks.

      Thomas

    • http://3d-synthesis.com ROUBAL

      Great work. I like the lightings and the graphic style.
      Very nice piece of art.

    • Tony

      Beautiful work!

    • http://freshsurge.com RH2

      yeah I was browsing through blender.org and saw an image of the lighthouse guy in the features & gallery page. I then became curious and looked through the movies category but didn’t find anything related. Is that intentional? I think “Lighthouse” is good enough to be in the movie section of Blender’s gallery.

    • semprong

      Man… I wish I can learn those rigging stuff you got there. It’s awesome. is there any tuts about the riggs? And the movie.. awesome man.

    • dronix

      this is awesome!

    • http://blog.filibos.com atomkarinca

      Simply amazing, both the story and the quality of animation.

    • star45

      Hi folks,
      very nice work!
      I wonder why the artists work with different tools!
      “Modelling was done in Zbrush and 3DS Max, texturing in Photoshop, and animation, rendering and compositing (HD) was done in Blender.”
      How goes a workflow with blender??

    • Brian

      @star45 “I wonder why the artists work with different tools!”

      Probably because they are used to using those tools for modeling or find that they work faster in one program than another. Its all a matter of preference and its great to see Blender used alongside other applications.

    • http://gr8effect.com gr8! (Dimitris Christou)

      Amazing! Congratulations to the team.

    • Aka

      @Brian – totally agree.

    • http://members.cox.net/neohumanity/ RAY16

      Fantastic work. Kudos to all involved with the project.

    • http://www.creaturefeature.info/ Ataru

      Ooohhhh…. looks majorly nice! Can someone put up a YouTube version? This Flash version on the website is buggy for me…

    • http://mke3.net Matt

      Hi Ataru, putting it on youtube wouldn’t be a good idea – the whole reason the project was commissioned was to bring traffic to the responsibilityproject.com website. They funded it, so they should see the benefits of it, we don’t want to bypass it with something like youtube.

      cheers

    • http://mke3.net Matt

      Oh, and DingTo: There won’t be an HD version or download or for sale (as far as I know… maybe Liberty Mutual might make a compilation in the future). However we would like to get it screened at festivals, so perhaps there’s an opportunity to see it in the original high def that way. I know I’d love to see it on the big screen myself!

    • Aka

      @Matt – There are always people who can’t go to such festivals, because of location or other reasons. Cheers

    • http://www.creaturefeature.info/ Ataru

      Gotcha Matt; that’s OK!

    • Devilly

      All I have to say is that this is one of the best (really) short movies I’ve ever seen.

    • Joeri

      Fell on the responsibilityproject via 3dtotal…
      While watching I thought, looks familiar.
      Then I thought: mmm… why didnt blender make a story like this.
      I sat up straight when I saw the credits: Matt Ebb!!! Hee kewl!

      Wait a minute,… is this a blender made movie? Lets see what BlenderNation knows about this:
      lol, all so it seems.

      Great work guys (and dolls?) !

      making of http://www.promotionstudios.com/files/lighthouse_breakdown_lg.mov

    • http://inkweaver-review.blogspot.com NathanKP

      This is a simply awesome movie! I loved it.

      NathanKP – Inkweaver Review