Akryls!!!!

[SpeedMetal]

COOOLLLLLLL the team of "guru" made this animation....
its done by lightwave wow!!

check their website, and download the movie file...


oohh no its too good!! , you ll be shocked


http://akryls.free.fr/

[jeromeOlivier]

Now THAT blew me away! Incredible. Looking forward to the making.

Definitely worth the 50MB download.

[phrick]

Holy crap! The most beautiful thing I've seen in a loooong time.

This should definately be in the Lightwave gallery!

Amazing work, guys!

[hrgiger]

I sure don't want to take anything away from it because that was one of the more stunning visual animations I've seen yet.

Yet, it was just one constant fly-through animation. I would have liked to have seen more of the bugs or ships or just something else at all.

Again though, it was stunningly good work.

[Zafar Iqbal]

Holy brown thingies in my pants! I kept saying "thins isn't LW... this isn't LW".... superb modeling and awsome rendering job.

3 ppl to do the modeling.. wonder how long it took to make it.

WOW!...have to see it again!

[Jockomo]

I could be wrong, but I think the part in the beginning is actually real footage of microscopic organisms. I dont think the cg starts until right before we go inside that first black ribbed object.

Never the less, still an amazing bit of work.

[Meshbuilder]

Originally posted by Jockomo
I could be wrong, but I think the part in the beginning is actually real footage of microscopic organisms. I dont think the cg starts until right before we go inside that first black ribbed object.

I don't think this is CG either. I know you can buy videos of mircoscopic organisms like this...

But if it is CG then I´m very impressed..

[WizCraker]

must be DivX can't play it.

[vbk!!!]

if you check in the evasion3d xdof gallery, you'll see example of microscopic rendering ( animation) ;)

i hope a tutorial will be created soon !!!


PS: Yann Couderc (one of the creator) was tester for evasion3d software

[Hervé]

Well I dont even see the point of putting this footage at the beginning if it's not CG, so I do also think it is CG..... incredible... really.. and for once I am serious .

Looking for a tut, even commercial...

Vraiment incroyable !!

Later

[Tronam]

I don't think there's a rule anywhere that says you can't use real footage in a CG film. I'm pretty much convinced that the initial microscopic sequence was real footage, but it was blended with the CG brilliantly. Think of it in an almost Wizard of Oz kind of context. They take you on a journey beginning with a microcosm of our own reality into imaginative one of their own. I thought it was beautifully done and whether the intro was real or not doesn't detract from this splendid film at all for me.

-Tronam

[omeone]

Originally posted by vbk!!!
if you check in the evasion3d xdof gallery, you'll see example of microscopic rendering ( animation) ;)

i hope a tutorial will be created soon !!!


PS: Yann Couderc (one of the creator) was tester for evasion3d software

Doesn't this say it was CG?

I'm told that the beginning sequence is actually nothing like real microscopic instruments would display, so even better for the animators that they managed to make us question something that should be unquestionable :D and make it look much better than the real thing aswell.

[Tronam]

Well, here's a quote (http://www.cgtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=88649&perpage=20&highlight=akryls&pagenumber=2) from an individual named 'Finkster' on CGTalk regarding the intro sequence:

"First off, that's amazing stuff! Thanks for letting us know about it Mr. JT.

As for the questions regarding the whole microscope/cellular part of the film, I can pretty safely say that nearly all of it is real footage, not CG. I've spent many an hour peering down a microscope at similar material when I was in university, and you can tell what is genuine. The switch to all cg takes place at about 1:05, where the camera zooms in on the stalk like material - though I think some of the earlier, more animated cells are cg elements. Not that this takes away at all from the quality of the effects, it only adds to it - that the cg and real elements are almost indistinguishable. And if I'm wrong I will gladly shove my words down my cake-hole.

Anyway, hope I haven't ruined the fun by completely dissecting such an amizing piece of work. I just wish I was as good at this type of thing as I was at microscopy."


I still don't think any of this really matters that much. It was well done, regardless.

-Tronam

[mav3rick]

those guys are killerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrzzzzzzzzzzzz z

[Hervé]

Evasion says it's CG with their X_dof plugin....

[Hervé]

hey, I think Ekki could tell us maybe something about...?

[zarti]

I have seen that 2 times.......and .... :eek: it was UNBELIEVEABLE!!
I was in that place for 5 minutes and then turned back and im a bit disoriented........I will see again.
Nice voyage!

Well Done you guys! BRAVOOooo!

RESPECT!

[Hervé]

Look at the end , I've discovered another Couderc.... teaching at" Supinfocom", I am sure they are relatives... No ?

I have to say it again and again, terrific wonderful work...!!

The question is : Is the entire sequence just a single LW scene? I think they breaked the film in several scenes.... jeez countless polys... how many maps... I dont really think (but I could be wrong) they used Radiosity.... there is no FLICKERING in that movie and so many frames to render.... or so subtle it does not disturb from watching....

Ahhhh, good question while we are here, when is that flickering in animations will stop.,? when... I am looking at a softimage animation and there is not a single pixel that flickers... not ONE... sure I could put a gradient behind each map (really each one, not only the bump one..!) that removes bump as distance increase, another to mix color and Image map in the color channel, but it is a poor turnaround, really poor... so in fact it's flat or beeeeezzz beeeezzzz flick flick...

Is it not the fault of what people call subpixel division or something similar..?

LW8...LW8.... LW8, no flicker, no flicker, no flicker...!!!

Have a nice day and watch over and over Akryls !!

[cagey5]

There's another thread in the gallery on this same amazing short. The thread was started by 'Akryls' and the same subject arises over there. i.e. Was the opening microscopy part video or CG?

It's mainly video but changes over to CG part way through.

See a second by second breakdown here.

http://vbulletin.newtek.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11307&perpage=15&pagenumber=2

[SamuraiSlayer]

i opened it, saw microscopic organisms, and being unfascinated, closed it. then i was going through my video folder and found it, didnt remember the filename, opened it, saw microscopic organisms. as i was moving my cursor to close it out i accidentally clicked the slider at about the middle, STUNNING!!!!! I'm glad i accidentally clicked it cuz it was just looking weird at the beginning. I have replayed it about 5 times, would work great at an IMAX theatre:)

[Halsu]

Originally posted by Hervé
hey, I think Ekki could tell us maybe something about...?

Naa... i didn't actually work on it - i'm just in the "thanks" section of the end credits. I was just as awestruck as everyone else when i saw it the first time - excellent work.

[Matt]

:eek: Holy Null objects Batman!!!! :eek:

Are you sure that's ALL totally LightWave? It's simply amazing!

Is the outdoor stuff all radiosity?

I can't wait for the making of!

Where's Ben Vost - we demand an interview with these guys!!!

:D