Kaleb Lechowski used a combination of Maya, ZBrush, Blender, Nuke and After effects in this impressive short movie.
Kaleb writes:
Mainly I worked with Maya, but used Blender and zBrush for the modeling. I sat at the compositing with Nuke and After Effects - supported by Photoshop. The whole production is covered here for seven months, the entire second half until the middle of the third.
The fact that it was a solo project, I had all the freedom to try me on science fiction, because I did not know if I had the chance in the team would offer again. Was important to me, especially a solid story, a neat, intriguing dialogue, the first experiments with the Maya Muscle system and contact with Dave Masterson as an actor. By the sound of Hartmut Zeller I got a big boost for my project. Also, I had specific ideas in terms of animation and the facial expressions of my aliens.
Links
R'ha Kaleb Lechowski: Sci-Fi Made In Germany (German)
- Google Translated: R'ha Kaleb Lechowski: Sci-Fi Made In Germany
21 Comments
Fantastic.
wtf?!? this is really cool!!!
It's a great short!
I was surprised how fast he made it, but after reading more I noticed the university computers were used to render... and I'm still surprised how fast he made it.
Congratulations!
Do you know which university that was?
According to the report MDH Berlin ;)
very well done indeed!
my silly question is: is it possible if you use only blender?
I don't see why not.
It's possible. But it will be a deal more work if you try to do it all in Blender alone, though. But it's possible.
muscle system in blender?
If I remember correctly, BlenRig has a deform cage for basic muscle simulation.
I like this very much ! Technically an amazingly high level ! Bravo !
Wery nice!
Wow, that was truly awesome.
Good job.
That's really AMAZING!!!
Nice job!
Just impressive: and a great mastering of the techniques, lightning... but containing them for the story:
Is is really at the level of biggest productions !
Impressive job!
I like the performance and the story as well!
Very nice! I like seeing one-man animation projects like this (well, one-man being besides the voice actor and the sound guy, who also did good jobs there). I hope Blender has a muscle simulation system of its own some day, because Maya's Muscle system works beautifully and it's always been something I've hoped for (to give more realistic muscle animation). I hope to perhaps see a continuation of this project soon. :)
Amazing that is completed by one person. Great images, and the alien is very good, but the HK's are becoming a cliché now - they belong to the Terminator films.
Great job. Intriguing story, spectacular models and effects, capturing sound ... all in all a perfect job!!! Two thumbs up ... if you start like that, only the sky seems to be your limit :)
Amazing job! It's obvious you're going to get far, just keep going :)
Want some constructive criticism? ;)
I found two things in the video which maybe could be better (imho of course): the smoke particles when the tower is collapsing - they disappear to fast. And the camera movement when we see the main character from behind running (it could be more shaky). But those are really the only things I could notice and you have to look hard to see them. Even Hollywood movies have errors, more than yours ;)
Really impressive !!