Last year I was invovled in the creation of two videos for two architectural competition for Quick-it. Both were hospitals, both in France.

First time for me to work with 3D animated people, those were AXYZ design people with manually tweaked bip files. We also tried the wind option technique with Onyx trees and custom leaves. Those were pre-rendered footage that were placed into animation with AE. Thanks to Peter Guthrie for his hints while looking for the best method to use, and espacially for providing this tutorial just at the right moment!  This can be improved but turned out good already!

Production time was approximately 1 week for the first video and 3 for the second.

Toulouse Hospital Presentation Movie ©Quick-it 2009

Toulouse Hospital Presentation Movie © 2009 from quickit on Vimeo.

Argenteuil Hospital Presentation Movie ©Quick-it 2009

Argenteuil Hospital Presentation Movie © 2009 from quickit on Vimeo.

Hope you like it !

Posted: January 22nd, 2010 under animation, cg, news.
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I hope the year was good for you and I wish you a 2010 full of joy.

I’ll try to update my blog a bit more this year, let’s say that it is one of my new year’s resolutions :)

Posted: December 30th, 2009 under news, pixelab.
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update / 04-nov-2009 added material details

After making a quick test for a frosted mirror material (sort of frosted glass in front of a mirror) I couldn’t resist making a nice studio render with heavy post production :)

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Posted: September 29th, 2009 under 3dsmax, cg, material, vray - 3dsmax.
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update 1-oct-2009/ thanks to Peter, I’ve learned that Multimatte workd by default with object IDs. The topic has then be corrected/completed

update 27-oct-2009/ added some info on the “Affect channel : All channels” option of a material

When it come to archviz rendering, one of the first thing to learn is to create good masks to retouch materials or objects individually in photoshop. If the most popular alpha mask allows you to cut out the entire rendering from his background, other type of masks (based on elements or objects) became essential for an efficient workflow in archviz.

I remember times where I did a second rendering with the same point of view, where every material was replaced by a self-illumated conterpart in order to save one or several DIY “masking pass” …a time consuming method, either on material editing or rendering. I even remember cutting out glass masks for buildings directly in Photoshop. Brrrrr :)

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Posted: September 28th, 2009 under 3dsmax, cg, photoshop, tutorial.
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Seems that the solution was far more simple than I thought in my previous post :

Just use the Gamma Override when you load the bitmap in max and I’ll work like a charm !

Posted: September 10th, 2009 under Uncategorized.
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