By Matray (of Babioles fame).
matray writes:
Hi there !
I've done pretty quickly a film for a videoclip contest, with a lot of blender in it :)
I'm not really into free contest stuff generally but I really like the artist and his song (the whole album actually !) So I took my camera and with no money (and not that much time, it was 3 weeks before the deadline when I've found out about this...) I've done this with the help of some friends.
I was willing to wait for the decision before sharing it with the blender community, but it's been more than a month and they still didn't pick any of the 83 films submitted, so I can't wait any longer to share it so... Here it is:
I've worked with Cycles for the first time and this is really a great render engine ! The DOF is superb, easy to setup, fast (not the DOF ;) ) I just miss the SSS sooo badly ! But anyway I really liked to work with it ! The character is the very first one I've done in 3D about 5 or 6 years ago and it was the perfect opportunity to bring him back to life.
Everything was tracked, and composited in Blender and there were just a few final touches like grain, glow and sharpen that were made in After Effect.
And for the animation part I've used Faceshift which was free at the time, and record myself singing the song. This wonderful piece of software captures every movement of your face with a Kinect. Then I've used a friend's script to import those datas into blender to assign the faceshift values to my monkey's face shape keys.
So I hope you like it. It's not a very happy film but the song is about revenge, so...
Cheers !
16 Comments
Very good ! Nice concept, nice look, I really like it.
Cycles is VERY promising, can't wait for SSS indeed, and hair and volumetrics.
Cheers,
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JG
Wow, I thougt it was really good. Good as a music video. The 3d in it looked good but that did not become not the focus when I was watching. Hope you win.
Usage of speech-sync software is good here :) Actually I was wondered "wow! he keyframed all these movements, it's a stubborn work!" :)
The video tracks are very cool. The mix looks very professional. What else to expect from "Babioles" artist? :D
Gobsmacked. I have been a visitor to this site for many years, but up intil now I was never moved to comment so I never joined up. that all changed when I saw this clip. Your character and the story being told works so well with the song. Well done very well done in my honest opinion. And thank you for sharing it with us.
Thank you very much guys ! Some of the 83 others videos are also good, but from what I saw, none have CG, but still there is some good other movies ;)
Frikkin awesome! Great idea and storyline!
sweet dude! it looks awesome, kinda creepy but awesome. I hope you win! and btw babilones turned out great gonna try and play some eps from interwebs to my sisters kids. :)
Be aware that not all the 'babioles' episodes are okay for kids ;)
Great work, good luck! Is it intentional that the creature looks like the skeleton of a shadow world relative of our dear Suzanne?
Yes, really good videoclip ! I love alt-J, I love blender, and I really like what you did. Bien joué !
When I first saw this I thought it was about Alt+J "Convert tris to quads" - Blender damaged!
Great work, love how seamlessly the skeleton is integrated into the live action space at the end. Can you share the script that you used to import the Faceshift info to Blender?
I've asked my friend about it and he said it was a very "cheap" script. Not user friendly at all and very messy. He did this very quickly to help me. But if you really want it MP me and I'll ask him to send it to you (I have no idea how it works though :) )
loved the video...i am also interested in how you got the faceshift info into blender...where do i message you my address
you can contact me @: e(dot)matray(at)gmail(dot)com
Ok so I didn't win :( .
I was a finalist and nominee but that's it... So you can watch it on my vimeo now :
https://vimeo.com/54143488
(better image quality)