Moose Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Really nice I'm looking forward to the making of too. Perhaps SESI might also create a new Customer Story to show-off Mantra... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zasid Posted June 23, 2008 Share Posted June 23, 2008 Yes we want making off !!!we want making off !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iluvblender Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 Very nice. Keep up the good work :dj: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rdg Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 beautiful! PS: for your files: leo-oo posted an article about this on hudach [1] [1] http://hudach.wordpress.com/2008/06/22/tv-...-blackmountain/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonensArt Posted June 25, 2008 Share Posted June 25, 2008 well done guys, let us see some break downs... what takes did u use? I like the first shot, great Render Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisux Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 Amazing job guys. I really like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason_slab Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 hey any news on that making of? i'd really like to see how you guys used pbr thx jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zasid Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 I think the Author has forget to reply on this thread or too busy to release any information Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anamous Posted July 4, 2008 Author Share Posted July 4, 2008 Actually, I have compiled some information, just need to find an hour or two to put it into coherent form, so stay tuned Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jason_slab Posted July 4, 2008 Share Posted July 4, 2008 cool can't wait I'm busy rnd'n PBR at the moment, so any extra information on the subject would be a great added bonus!! thx jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ezdz Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 Hi guys,we (BlackMountain in Stuttgart, Germany) just finished our first TV spot almost (98%) completely rendered in Mantra, with lots and lots and lots of PBR. I think it turned out quite ok, take a look at the small version (high res is in 1280x584): http://www.blackmountain.de/lassa_mini.mov we learned a lot in the process and will continue to exploit this nice piece of software cheers, Abdelkareem Is the quicktime still online? I can't find it.... saw it once, would like to watch it again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ykcosmo Posted July 21, 2008 Share Posted July 21, 2008 (edited) very nice! How long did you cost to render? And could you share your mantra settings? Edited July 21, 2008 by ykcosmo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dan_cgi Posted June 18, 2009 Share Posted June 18, 2009 Hi guys, i know that this is an old thread but i was wondering if any 'making of' or render settings were ever posted. This advert looks amazing and if it was 98% rendered in mantra i want to know how to get my stuff up to this level! Cheers D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anamous Posted June 19, 2009 Author Share Posted June 19, 2009 err... why is this thread still alive? thanks again for the kind words, guys. As for how long this rendered, hard to say, but we had 8 weeks overall for the project and we only started final rendering 2 weeks before end. 750 frames in 720p. So overall, wasn't bad. Some elements (single robots) took 15 minutes on quad-core machines, others (the room in some cases) rendered anywhere up to 4 hours a frame. And yes, the only thing that wasn't rendered in Mantra was some 2d smoke. Only two scenes (tire laser burn closeup and black fluid closeup) were rendered in micropolygon, everything else was rendered in PBR, with motion blur and often DOF. Note that this was rendered in Mantra 9.0. A lot has changed since. I've tried giving some tips here, but I also explain there why it isn't easy to hand out tips when it comes to Mantra - it's just too flexible and there's a million ways of doing something. Most of this specific spot was lit using an array of area lights in addition to environment lights. Sometimes, we would split the robots from the background room, bake the lit and shaded background room into an HDRI and light the robots using that HDRI. Here's some eyecandy from the test phase for that project, all Mantra. To make up for the fact that I can't offer a magic setting that makes things look good cheers, Abdelkareem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafilm Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 beautyful images, nice job, i like it, cheers, rafael Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mabulazm Posted June 23, 2009 Share Posted June 23, 2009 this is awesome well done , keep going Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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