Re: "toon look"

["olivier.jeannel(at)noos.fr" <olivier.jeannel(at)noos.fr>]

Well, that's always the same problem.
People tend to rely too much on high tech, it's like they don't trust 
anymore in the "artistic" feel, or it just come in second place...
They fill the product with "secure" technology, like a gage of quality.

A bit sad, and that makes forgetable movies ...


Marek Schneider a écrit :

> From what I heard the story is pretty average... As for the b/w style 
> I really like it and the subtle details in it. But the motioncaptured 
> characters don't fit the style at all - the much too realistic 
> movement is in complete contradiction with the whole stylized effect, 
> while the facial animation looks just cheap. I really can't understand 
> why one would use mocap with such a film, it breaks the whole "BD" 
> (french for comic) look :-/
>
> M.
>
>
> Marc-Andre Carbonneau wrote:
>
> > But is the story any good or are they trying to save that by having a
> > cool B/W look?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM [mailto:owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM] On Behalf
> > Of ThierryBaret
> > Sent: March 22, 2006 5:38 AM
> > To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
> > Subject: Re: "toon look"
> >
> >
> >
> > Yeah, went to see it this weekend, there are amazing view of Paris and
> > the
> > rendering is original also at the beginning I founded it quite tiring to
> > watch because the highlighted part of the faces seem to be in constant
> > movement and it sometimes makes it hard to read the facial expression
> > easily.
> > I like the snow falls as well.Definitely worth seeing,well done guys!
> >
> > The studio who did it is called Attitude Studio:
> >
> > http://www.attitude-studio.com/aboutus.html
> >
> > There is an article on their site which says that it took them five
> > years to
> > make this feature film of which 3 years of daily "really doing the thing
> > "
> > on it.
> > The film cost 15 millions of dollars and necessitated the setup of a
> > fibre
> > optic network at 1GB,300 workstations and 200 bi-Opterons servers on 2
> > sites
> > one in France and one in Switzerland.The data amounted at 2 times 12
> > terabytes.On scene could weight as much as 20GB.
> >
> > It also says that there will be a making of the film published by
> > Casterman
> > in February....could be interesting.
> >
> >  Thierry
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Stefan Andersson" <sanders3d(at)gmail.com>
> > To: <XSI(at)Softimage.COM>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 10:40 AM
> > Subject: Re: "toon look"
> >
> >
> >  
> >
> > > I know! that's why I'm a little curious on how they did it. A lot of
> > > it looks like painted textures applied to a constant material. And
> > > then a added shadow pass and a light pass... But I'm also wondering
> > > how the specific highlights are chosen. The train tunnel is a great
> > > example and the scene where the car is in the shadows.
> > >
> > > anyhooo..
> > >
> > > /stefan
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On 3/22/06, Chris Marshall <chris(at)eclipsecreative.co.uk> wrote:
> > >    
> > >
> > > > That's great looking stuff!!
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Stefan Andersson wrote:
> > > >
> > > >      
> > > >
> > > > > Hi All,
> > > > >
> > > > > I was wondering if anyone seen this (which I expect most of you
> > > > >         
> > have).
> >  
> >
> > > > > http://ben.bardou.free.fr/renaissance.htm
> > > > >
> > > > > Sin City and the Nascar commercial almost have the same kind of
> > > > >         
> > look.
> >  
> >
> > > > > I was wondering if anyone could share some insight in what
> > > > >         
> > techniuiqes
> >  
> >
> > > > > that were used... and how much of it that is actually rendered with
> > > > >         
> > a
> >  
> >
> > > > > toon shader. It seems to me that most of the shading is made by
> > > > > lighting... anyway.. let the talks begin :)
> > > > >
> > > > > regards
> > > > > stefan andersson
> > > > >
> > > > >
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