A story of greed, gluttony, and vanity. A mouse gets in trouble when he eats so much cheese that he can't move, then the cat comes and his troubles really begin...
Director: Derek Flood
Producer: Das Werk
A computer animated Short film written directed and animated by Derek Flood. Software used: Maya, Shake.
Fireflies lead us into an enchanting forest, where a magnificant tree is hosting this evening's serenade. At the base, we find a composer adding the final notes to his midnight symphony. Amongst the branches, a worker is diligently carving an insturment from the woods around him. Beneath the moonlight, the piece intensifies as we join the conductor and his orchestra above the canopy of leaves.
Silhouette is about a toy ballerina who comes to life when her music box opens. As she continues to dance, her imagination runs wild. Is the shadow real, or just a figment of her imagination? This is the question that the ballerina has to ask herself.
Contrary to its title, ''Stop-MotionVersus CG'' employs harmony rather than conflict. It is a collaboration of diciplines and formats-- stop-motion, CG, high-definition video and live-action film-- brought together for laughs.
Director: Kyle Bell
Producer: Erik Vignau
Software: Maya, After Effects, Jenoptic MFHardware: 35mm Mitchell Stop-motion camera, Eyelike digital camera
This video demonstrated our technique forapproximating the sounds that are generated by the motions of solid objects. As the motions of the objects are computed, theirsurfaces are analyzed to determine how the motion will induce acoustic pressure waves in the surrounding medium.
Our technique computes the propagation of those wavesto the listener and then uses the resultsto generate sounds corresponding to the behavior of the simulated objects. Furtherdetails are provided in our paper in the SIGGRAPH 2001 proceedings.
A little boy has been give a 'time out' in the corner, when he gets an idea to become a ''SuperHero''. He creates havoc around the house unaware the he will encounter his greatest weakness.
The work represents a new paradigm in computer generated filmmaking. The realistic 3D human-like digital actors were recorded in real-time directly from the display of a standard PC. The characters' dialogue was created from textwith a text to speech engine or automaticallysychronized to real voice audio clips. The digital actors were 'directed' using a markup language to describe behaviours and expressions, with real-time interactive playback.Software: LifeFXHardware: PC, Graphics Card
Integrating 3D virtual cars in real environment is a powerfull and essential tool for day-by-day Design process at Renault. Using similar techniques the Renault car ''Vel Satis'' has been integrated in Paris, lighting the city with a touch of magic.
Director: Pierre Quatrefages
Producer: Olivier Boulanger
Also without taking any confidentiality risks, Renault is able to film and see it's latest production driving around the streets of Parisbefore it's presentation to the public. To improve drastically the quality, a complete range of software from 2D to 3D has been used in this film: Catz, Wop, Stitcher, Shake,Autostudio, Maya and Mental Ray.
Wolfgang and Helga are two figurines living in a brand new cuckoo clock. As the clock strikes the hour, it's time for them to meet. Both are very excited, till wolfy meets helga...
A jungle tour filled with downhill bumps,cliff-hangers,bridge-collapsing moments,the discovery of an ancient burial site,plus an unpredictable ending turns this into one wacky adventure.''WILD JUNGLE'' is a twelve person motion ride with a 180 degree wrap-around screen seamlessly projectedby three CRT projectors at 60 frames/second.
Visually stunning and action packed, Freeware is a 3-D, CG-animated thrill ride through a futuristic world.
This sci-fi short follows three cyborgs on a daring race to rescue Maia, an assistant at a powerful IT company, from the grips of its evil CEO. All animation was created using Alias/Wavefronts Maya.
