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Gallery / Re: The Surfing Mini Superhero
« on: 2018-09-11, 10:11:44 »
Next time I do something similar, hopefully it will all be simulated instead of faked effects so I will get the foam and spray correct as well ;-)
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Gallery / The Surfing Mini Superhero
« on: 2018-08-30, 21:53:32 »
During the summer, I started on this little project in my spare time. What was supposed to be a short project, turned out to take much more time than I anticipated.
The biggest challenge was to make the wave and water fx to loop.
After a lot of trial and error trying to simulate the wave, I ended up basically faking the whole thing. The wave motions turned out pretty alright I think :)
Strangely, it took forever to render certain frames so my guess is that I must have done something horrible with the way I configured my materials and shaders.
80% of the scene is just SSS and volumetrics though so I do expect it to take some time. But if anyone has some good pointers of good practices to keep these kind of shaders optimal, I'm all ears :)
Hope you like the result :)
The biggest challenge was to make the wave and water fx to loop.
After a lot of trial and error trying to simulate the wave, I ended up basically faking the whole thing. The wave motions turned out pretty alright I think :)
Strangely, it took forever to render certain frames so my guess is that I must have done something horrible with the way I configured my materials and shaders.
80% of the scene is just SSS and volumetrics though so I do expect it to take some time. But if anyone has some good pointers of good practices to keep these kind of shaders optimal, I'm all ears :)
Hope you like the result :)
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[Max] General Discussion / Re: DR Rendering sequences
« on: 2018-08-09, 15:27:56 »
Thank you for your input :-) I didn't realize there was a timeout limit coded in with BB. I'll look into it.
The reason the frames take so long is most likely the scene consisting of 90% SSS water materials and volumetric materials which are heavy to render. On top of this there is also DOF activated and a noise limit set to 5%.
I use Corona 2 to render this sequence.
The reason the frames take so long is most likely the scene consisting of 90% SSS water materials and volumetric materials which are heavy to render. On top of this there is also DOF activated and a noise limit set to 5%.
I use Corona 2 to render this sequence.
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[Max] General Discussion / DR Rendering sequences
« on: 2018-08-09, 14:36:46 »
Hi!
I'm currently rendering a sequence of one of my animations and I've had some issues with network rendering.
Originally I was using backburner to render the scene, but for some strange reason I've been stuck on a loop of 6 frames the past 2 days. Considering it takes like 10h per frame on 1 PC I decided to change tactics and use the DR server instead so the frames render faster (The total time it will take is the same though) outside of the backburner setup.
At least this time I could make sure the rendering doesn't get stuck on 6 frames and at least can advance.
I've set up all the DR servers and the first frame rendered with all DR servers actively working but when the master PC has continued to the next frame, the slaves don't seem to be working with it. Their status still says "Waiting for render to start" and it shows on the CPU activity as well.
I'm using Noise limit settings instead of pass limit in case this is useful info.
Does anyone who have an idea of how to fix this?
I'm currently rendering a sequence of one of my animations and I've had some issues with network rendering.
Originally I was using backburner to render the scene, but for some strange reason I've been stuck on a loop of 6 frames the past 2 days. Considering it takes like 10h per frame on 1 PC I decided to change tactics and use the DR server instead so the frames render faster (The total time it will take is the same though) outside of the backburner setup.
At least this time I could make sure the rendering doesn't get stuck on 6 frames and at least can advance.
I've set up all the DR servers and the first frame rendered with all DR servers actively working but when the master PC has continued to the next frame, the slaves don't seem to be working with it. Their status still says "Waiting for render to start" and it shows on the CPU activity as well.
I'm using Noise limit settings instead of pass limit in case this is useful info.
Does anyone who have an idea of how to fix this?
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Gallery / Re: Q Meieriene Ultimoo Commercials
« on: 2018-07-24, 09:58:44 »Cool, how did you create the milk liquid animation?
The milk was simulated with RealFlow and then brought back into 3ds max for Rendering.
This actually gave us a challenge considering we wanted to render the scene with motion blur. Meshes with changing topology however, does not render with motion blur so we had to add the motion blur in post with NukeX.
So besides the nicelely done animation the company went from cartboard packaging to plastic ones? I wonder how they make that (more) recycable, with a fund or something?
This is a really good and valid point :) Luckily, Norwegians have a pretty decent return policy of bottles (2NOK per Ultimoo bottle) as well as norwegians might be among the best in the world when it comes to returning empty bottles. Over a billion bottles were returned already in 2016, and the numbers keep going up.
The choice of the type of bottle to use, was decided before we started on the commercial though ;)
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Gallery / Re: Q Meieriene Ultimoo Commercials
« on: 2018-07-20, 15:19:19 »
Glad you like it :-)
It's nice to include some animation to the forum among all the other amazing still renders. Corona is an amazing render engine, and we fell in love with it instantly.
Creating our renders, being stills or animation has never been as fun as now :)
It's nice to include some animation to the forum among all the other amazing still renders. Corona is an amazing render engine, and we fell in love with it instantly.
Creating our renders, being stills or animation has never been as fun as now :)
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Gallery / Q Meieriene Ultimoo Commercials
« on: 2018-07-12, 10:17:23 »Credits
Produced for Q-meieriene by MYREZE
Creative Director: Björn Myreze
Project Manager: Luciana Thunem
Moodboards: Bendikt Myklebust
Art Director / Storyboard: Kent Løset
Concept / Ideas: Mats Hope & Martin Lavik Nygaard
Head of 3D / Animation: Remi Vaage
Modeling / Gaming scene: Øyvind Engevik
Food scene / Travel scene: Daniel Liljar
Gym scene / Music scene: Karoline Holm
Motion graphics / Design: Mathias Birkeland
Grading / Audio: Christoffer Møgster
About the process
The ultimate chocolate milk Ultimoo is changing its packaging from carton to bottle and MYREZE was hired to make 5 commercials at 5 seconds each to show it.
Each of the different versions is targeted to different types of audiences. As the chocolate milk is more healthy than its competitors, we made one for the active viewers with a set designs of a gym wardrobe. And because it tastes much better than their competitors, we also made one for gamers, food lovers and for those who like something sweet when traveling, working or studying.
What they all have in common is that the new bottle is more sexy, it looks larger and is recyclable with delicious chocolate milk inside. In other words, it is the ultimate choice.
Everything is rendered with Corona for 3ds Max and final comp with Nuke.
Storyboards
City ad posters
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Gallery / The superheroes
« on: 2018-05-13, 18:05:22 »
I decided to do a small personal project during the weekend a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to make myself a new cover photo for my facebook page.
I wanted to practice my realistic rendering skills as well as practice my lighting skills without the use of HDRi. At the same time, I wanted to use this project to also explore the latest features of Corona which I haven't gotten to use that much lately; the new hair and skin shaders.
I had an idea of the concept on friday and in order to save time and be able to complete it by sunday, I downloaded free models of man and woman and modeled the suits on top of that. The suits and skin were then textured using Substance Painter as well as preparing the Hair and Fur density and length maps (Especially for the beard on the guy in the back).
I really wanted to get another pass at the hair for the girl but I had to leave it if I wanted to keep my deadline of finishing at the end of the weekend (This was kind of my own little challenge)
The concept itself comes from the company I work for; MYREZE, where we brand ourselves as Superheroes and I wanted to make a picture to reflect that. It sure is a funny pitch for a new work uniform :-P
The render is almost untouched from Corona except from a few fixes with clone stamp in Photoshop.
I even rendered out a 16K version so it's possible to really zoom in and see the details. Hope you enjoy it :-)
For the past months, MYREZE has moved into a new era, with brand new offices at Media City Bergen. Even though there's been, a lot of big changes; we are still Superheroes!
When you need the best visuals, even the ones that run Real-Time; Call a Superhero ;-)
I wanted to practice my realistic rendering skills as well as practice my lighting skills without the use of HDRi. At the same time, I wanted to use this project to also explore the latest features of Corona which I haven't gotten to use that much lately; the new hair and skin shaders.
I had an idea of the concept on friday and in order to save time and be able to complete it by sunday, I downloaded free models of man and woman and modeled the suits on top of that. The suits and skin were then textured using Substance Painter as well as preparing the Hair and Fur density and length maps (Especially for the beard on the guy in the back).
I really wanted to get another pass at the hair for the girl but I had to leave it if I wanted to keep my deadline of finishing at the end of the weekend (This was kind of my own little challenge)
The concept itself comes from the company I work for; MYREZE, where we brand ourselves as Superheroes and I wanted to make a picture to reflect that. It sure is a funny pitch for a new work uniform :-P
The render is almost untouched from Corona except from a few fixes with clone stamp in Photoshop.
I even rendered out a 16K version so it's possible to really zoom in and see the details. Hope you enjoy it :-)
For the past months, MYREZE has moved into a new era, with brand new offices at Media City Bergen. Even though there's been, a lot of big changes; we are still Superheroes!
When you need the best visuals, even the ones that run Real-Time; Call a Superhero ;-)
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Gallery / Lost in Time Opener - By Myreze & The Future Group
« on: 2017-06-21, 14:56:02 »
One year ago, the brilliant team at The Future Group asked us to join in on a cutting edge project.
Little did we know about their plans for an ambitious TV-show entirely done in CG. This is by far the most fun project we've ever done, where the opener was among the things we cooperated on.
The idea behind the opener, is that the dragonfly represents "Eve", the female voiceover on the show.
In the opener, she introduces the different worlds to the viewers. Along the way we'll see that this is not an ordinary dragonfly, as it suddenly transforms into a mechanical dragonfly. We also learn that the Lost in Time worlds are all built from cogwheels and mechanics.
Except from a few effects, the entire opener is rendered with our beloved render engine of choice for most projects; Corona ;-)
CREDITS
Client
The Future Group
Project Owner
The Future Group
Bård Anders Kasin / Stig Olav Kasin
Creative Director
Björn Myreze
Director
Christoffer Møgster
Concept
Anja-Helen Fagerli
Martin Lavik Nygaard
Storyboard
Alexandra Hasfjord
Mats Hope
Kent Løset
Sandra Pilny-Lockertsen
Head of 3D
Remi Vaage
3D Team
Jo Christian Figenschou
Martin Reed
Tom Riise
Henning Tvedten
Stefan Björn
Anders Borg
Mathias Birkeland
Previs
Ole Martin Volle
Compositor
Bendikt Myklebust
Per Viggo Bergsvik
Music
Kurder King
Below are some still renders of the different worlds :-)
Little did we know about their plans for an ambitious TV-show entirely done in CG. This is by far the most fun project we've ever done, where the opener was among the things we cooperated on.
The idea behind the opener, is that the dragonfly represents "Eve", the female voiceover on the show.
In the opener, she introduces the different worlds to the viewers. Along the way we'll see that this is not an ordinary dragonfly, as it suddenly transforms into a mechanical dragonfly. We also learn that the Lost in Time worlds are all built from cogwheels and mechanics.
Except from a few effects, the entire opener is rendered with our beloved render engine of choice for most projects; Corona ;-)
CREDITS
Client
The Future Group
Project Owner
The Future Group
Bård Anders Kasin / Stig Olav Kasin
Creative Director
Björn Myreze
Director
Christoffer Møgster
Concept
Anja-Helen Fagerli
Martin Lavik Nygaard
Storyboard
Alexandra Hasfjord
Mats Hope
Kent Løset
Sandra Pilny-Lockertsen
Head of 3D
Remi Vaage
3D Team
Jo Christian Figenschou
Martin Reed
Tom Riise
Henning Tvedten
Stefan Björn
Anders Borg
Mathias Birkeland
Previs
Ole Martin Volle
Compositor
Bendikt Myklebust
Per Viggo Bergsvik
Music
Kurder King
Below are some still renders of the different worlds :-)
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[Max] Bug Reporting / Re: CMasking adds child objects of selected object
« on: 2017-03-09, 19:52:11 »
"Corona devs don't like to overcomplicate GUI but I don't see any other way to please everybody :)"
That might be true, but adding children to the mask without it being documented is misleading...
That might be true, but adding children to the mask without it being documented is misleading...
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[Max] Bug Reporting / CMasking adds child objects of selected object
« on: 2017-03-09, 12:07:04 »
We came across an issue yesterday which seems like a bug to us. When we added a CMasking render element in RGB mode and added 3 separate objects (by object selection mode), we ended up with 2 of them appearing yellow. We tried separating it up into 3 monochromatic elements instead to then notice more objects appeared in the mask (objects linked to the selected object) that's not part of our selection.
The problem resolved itself by unlinking the objects as we did not need them to be parented in this particular scene but we can see this can cause an issue with other projects where the link is necessary due to rigging etc.
The problem resolved itself by unlinking the objects as we did not need them to be parented in this particular scene but we can see this can cause an issue with other projects where the link is necessary due to rigging etc.
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[Max] Resolved Bugs / Bloom and Glare renders on all render elements
« on: 2017-03-09, 12:00:09 »
Is it a default setting to add bloom and glare to the render element passes such as Reflect and Emission passes?
We shipped a scene to render yesterday and when it came back, we found bloom and glare on our reflect and emission render elements, despite us rendering out the bloom and glare as a separate render element.
Bloom and glare is basically a post effect so should it even be present in the essential render elements? Or is it a bug?
We shipped a scene to render yesterday and when it came back, we found bloom and glare on our reflect and emission render elements, despite us rendering out the bloom and glare as a separate render element.
Bloom and glare is basically a post effect so should it even be present in the essential render elements? Or is it a bug?
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[Max] I need help! / Re: Rendering inside Fog, dust and clouds using Corona Volume Mtl
« on: 2017-03-03, 18:14:02 »Unfortunatelly, can't help you here - me too have very little experience with animated booleans.
Thanks for the tip anyway :)
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[Max] I need help! / Re: Rendering inside Fog, dust and clouds using Corona Volume Mtl
« on: 2017-03-03, 12:56:08 »Boolean? Place a sphere at camera's location and boolean it from dust mesh. You can even animate boolean as long as you won't colapse it to editable mesh.
That's actually a great tip and it seems to be working well :) However........ it works great with a static camera but my scene contains a moving camera and linking or Pos. Constraining the mesh to the camera will also move the volume object as they become one with a boolean.... or am I overlooking or doing something wrong maybe?
I tend to avoid using boolean operations as it messes up the meshes wireframes so I don't have too much experience using boolean..
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[Max] I need help! / Rendering inside Fog, dust and clouds using Corona Volume Mtl
« on: 2017-03-03, 12:19:10 »
Hi!
We're working on a scene where we want to add fog, dust and other atmospheric effects using the corona volume mtl as it looks absolutely awesome and gives really nice volumetric effects.
But here is the kind of scenario:
Our scene contains of a sandy landscape made up of dust haze and sand blowing in the wind.
I have found some creative ways to use meshes to function as dust clouds and so on and the all render very nicely when the camera is outside the mesh.
Please see attached example file for illustration.
But what if there was a dust cloud moving towards the camera, making the camera pass through the volume? This is where I'm struggling as once the camera is inside the volume it renders not as I would expect it to look. Please see attached picture for illustration
It's ofc possible to do dust and all the "old fashioned" way with PFlow and camera facing planes but I don't think this renders as nicely and does not give the beautiful volumetric scattering of the light (how could it? as it's all fake).
Maybe someone has encountered a similar issue and knows a work around?
Thanks in advance :)
We're working on a scene where we want to add fog, dust and other atmospheric effects using the corona volume mtl as it looks absolutely awesome and gives really nice volumetric effects.
But here is the kind of scenario:
Our scene contains of a sandy landscape made up of dust haze and sand blowing in the wind.
I have found some creative ways to use meshes to function as dust clouds and so on and the all render very nicely when the camera is outside the mesh.
Please see attached example file for illustration.
But what if there was a dust cloud moving towards the camera, making the camera pass through the volume? This is where I'm struggling as once the camera is inside the volume it renders not as I would expect it to look. Please see attached picture for illustration
It's ofc possible to do dust and all the "old fashioned" way with PFlow and camera facing planes but I don't think this renders as nicely and does not give the beautiful volumetric scattering of the light (how could it? as it's all fake).
Maybe someone has encountered a similar issue and knows a work around?
Thanks in advance :)
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