Re: Waves...

["Vince Fortin" <vfortin(at)gmail.com>]

I once worked on a cg feature where the person in charge wouldn't let us use any real footage at all in our effects.
I don't remember if we did without him noticing.
=P

On 9/29/06, Bradley Gabe <withanar(at)stanwinston.com> wrote:

Why spend X on going out and shooting the plates you need, when you can
spend 10X on simulating reality?

> 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/
>                 > >
>                 > > --
>                 > > Meng Yang Lu
>                 > > Rigging/FX TD
>                 > > Sony Cinematic Solutions Group
>                 > >
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