Re: Waves...

["Meng-Yang Lu" <ntmonkey(at)gmail.com>]

I actually have no idea on how it was acheived.  It's probably done like how Brad mentioned with tons of money and people.  Though, I'm sure we're all hoping that it a tool that'll make it to our toolbars soon.  ;-)

-Lu

On 9/28/06, Andi Farhall <andi(at)clearpost.co.uk> wrote:

Very nice indeed.

Don't suppose you could roughly fill us in on how it was achieved?


Andi

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From: owner-xsi(at)Softimage.COM on behalf of Meng-Yang Lu
Sent: Fri 9/29/2006 2:16 AM
To: XSI(at)Softimage.COM
Subject: Re: Waves...


Using nothing but a toothpick cause of budget constraints...  Go Eric!!!

-Lu


On 9/28/06, Bradley Gabe < withanar(at)stanwinston.com <mailto:withanar(at)stanwinston.com> > wrote:

        See, Eric knows that any look achieved in a big budget film, requiring a
        dozen R&D guys writing custom software costing millions of dollars over
        16 months... will, within a week of the film's release, be expected for
        him to replicate on a 10 day solo project for a local telephone company
        commercial.

        Moore's Law? Hah! Moore's Revenge!

        > That looks great!
        >
        > How are they doing the shading on those big wave water crash spray
        > things?  It's like particle-cloud-meets-ambient-occlusion-and-SSS...
        > like ILM's splash-spray shots during the capsizing of Poseidon.
        >
        > Can we get close to that look yet w XSI particles?  I'm sure there's a
        > cheated way to pull that off that doesn't involve raytracing or volumic
        > shaders.  Anyone hear of any fast shaders for that?
        >
        > -Eric
        >
        >
        > ----- Original Message -----
        > From: "Meng-Yang Lu" <ntmonkey(at)gmail.com >
        > To: <xsi(at)Softimage.COM >
        > Sent: Thursday, September 28, 2006 6:44 PM
        > Subject: Waves...
        >
        >
        > > Here's some cool work from our sister studio up north.  Probably the
        > > best CG
        > > Waves to date.  Guilliame, was it you that was working on a wave??  A
        > > little
        > > inspiration there for ya if it was you.
        > >
        > > http://www.apple.com/trailers/sony_pictures/surfsup/
        > >
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        > > Sony Cinematic Solutions Group
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