using 1050 individual a0 sized frames with long exposure photography, points in space presents melbournes cbd’s cycles of repetition by responding to the flow of traffic at key intersections. bodies join, weld and converge into swarming masses of movement. this movement is present in each city around the world. the work presents how a city environment is controlled through organised systems. scenarios which may look like elements in chaos, work in harmony. www.ducroz.com points in space director : benjamin ducroz sound : singlesignal producer : ashlee arnold assistant animator : hamish storrie volunteers : amber chou, radhika chopra, jane smith, toby feldman year : 2011 duration : 1"13

• published: 02 Oct 2011
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This is the making of CG short film 'Vehicles & Streets' (2011) created by Zblur team. Stills & more: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Elements-The-Making-of-V-S/2249196 The completed short is here: vimeo.com/29836774 Element One: STORYBOARD AND PRE-VISUALIZATION - 00:16 Element Two: TEXTURES, SHADERS, CONCEPT ARTS AND DESIGN - 00:57 Element Three: 3D MODELING AND TEXTURING - 02:06 Element Four: MATTE PAINTING - 04:22 Element Five: DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF VEHICLE BEHAVIOR - 04:45 Element Six: DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF VEHICLE DRIVER - 05:42 Element Seven: GASEOUS DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS - 05:57 Element Eight: LIQUID DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS - 06:31 Element Nine: RIGID AND SOFT BODY DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS - 07:16 Element Ten: PARTICLE SYSTEM SIMULATIONS - 07:29 Element Eleven: DYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF VIRTUAL CAMERA - 07:59 Element Twelve: COMPOSITING, COLOR GRADING AND MASTERING - 08:17 Yes! The header images of 'Photorealistic CGI' groups is from here. https://vimeo.com/groups/photoreal https://www.facebook.com/groups/photorealistic 'Elements: The Making of 'V&S;'' was featured on Strictly VFX: http://strictlyvfx.com/the-making-of-vehicles-streets-by-zblur/ The CGBros Channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ql3ta4bwXUk & The CG Motionbox: http://www.cgmotionbox.com/2012/07/making-of-vehicles-streets/ FACTS & STATISTICS - 'V&S;' includes 17 shots (2K). - Stuff members: 2 artists (Velichkov Bros.) - Year of release: 2011 - In production: More than 3 years (due to repeated long-term interruptions and conceptual changes). - Actual duration of the production: Less than 3 mounts. - All pre-visualizations were made in January 2008. - Almost all CG input renders were made in early 2010. - There are more than 650 000 000 (650M) polygons (excluding millions of particles) included in one scene only. This exists in several scenes. - There are between 250 and 300 layers (including passes, adjustments and FX) used in a single scene (in some scenes). - Average layers: More than 180 per scene. - No scene with less then 100 compositing layers exists. - The longest shot lasts more than 35 seconds. - There is a live footage in shot 8 (the car driver, which is played by Martin Velichkov). - Ready made VFX or live footages have not been used.

• published: 01 Oct 2011
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Alessandro Bavari: Camera Tremula 1, Noise Melange, XYZ Ocula Depth Fulvio Sturniolo: Camera Tremula 2 Jeff Ensign aka Evolution Noise Slave: Sonic Harmonium Format: Pal Widescreen 1050x576 Duration: 8:27 mins --------------------------------------------------------------- Prizes - Golden Nica at Prix Ars Electronica 2011. - Special Award IED at Skepto International Film Festival. - Best Experimental Film at the 2nd Stortford Film Festival. - Best Direction Prize at the Cinemavvenire Video Festival. - 1° Prize Art Lab at the Festival Internazionale del Cinema d'Arte. - 1° Prize ex aequo at the Corto Dorico Short Film Festival + a Special Mention Prize. - Best Design Prize at the 13th Animation Film Festival Animated Dreams. - Finalist as Best Direction at the Animago Award. - Finalist at the Bolzano Short Film Festival. http://www.alessandrobavari.com/ info@alessandrobavari.com --------------------------------------------------------------- SINOPSYS Metachaos, from Greek Meta (beyond) and Chaos (the abyss where the eternally-formless state of the universe hides), indicates a primordial shape of ameba, which lacks in precise morphology, and it is characterized by mutation and mitosis. In fact the bodies represented in METACHAOS, even though they are characterized by an apparently anthropomorphous appearance, in reality they are without identity and conscience. They exist confined in a spaceless and timeless state, an hostile and decadent hyperuranium where a fortress, in perpetual movement, dominates the landscape in defense of a supercelestial, harmonic but fragile parallel dimension. In its destructive instinct of violating the dimensional limbo, the mutant horde penetrates the intimacy of the fortress, laying siege like a virus. Similar to the balance of a philological continuum in human species, bringing the status of things back to the primordial broth. STATEMENT METACHAOS is a multidisciplinary audio-visual project, articulated in a short film, a set of photography (http://www.alessandrobavari.com/english/Metachaos-photographies/gallery_Metachaos-photographic_series.htm) and mix-technique paintings. The purpose of the project is to represent the most tragic aspects of the human nature and of its motion, such as war, madness, social change and hate. An accretion of feelings that are metaphorically represented by specific visual forms, which are abstract conceptually, but concrete and tangible formally. The application of acid and monochromatic tints, besides the strong contrasts, makes everything intentionally more oppressive and tragic. In order to obtain a more immersive and plausible version, the shot was taken adopting the camera live technique. The extreme and frenetic motion of the shoulder camera, similar to the subjective one, becomes a main constant, so that, along with the persisting cuts used to edit the video, create a bigger sense of instability and danger. In fact, thanks to the dissemination of Technology, it is possible to notice that the unconscious-esthetic potential of the shots available on Youtube, characterized by a pseudo-documentary and amateur approach, often offer an unexpected emotional involvement, which trigger an exhibitionistic-voyeuristic interchange between the author and the consumer. The irrational gesture and action of the bodies, as if a collective form of madness controlled them, are inspired by artists like Bosch and Bruegel who, between the ‘400 and ‘500, produced an iconography where irrational images show sickly madness and pain. The project has been realized using different techniques: live shots taken in discharged industrial sites, CGI animations, tracking and motion captures, besides various other analogical ones. American Jeff Ensign, aka Evolution Noise Slave composed the original sound track, which has been progressively updated during the video production. The musical score was inspired by 6 separate pieces Jeff had previously created that were then combined into a hybrid. The composition was also based in part from a sonic interpretation of the ideas presented in Antonin Artaud’s the Theater and Cruelty overlaid on Bavari’s images. JURY STATEMENT FROM PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA 2011. Alessandro Bavari’s “Metachaos” is an impressive display of the amazing graphics that can be produced with leading-edge hardware and software. The 8-minute clip begins with a sequence of clear, geometric forms that suggest a serene world. But it doesn’t take long until it’s apparent that this was just the calm before the storm. Shadowy creatures and shockingly grotesque figures intrude into this domain rendered in black & white and sepia tones and rip it to pieces. Using the interplay of light and shadow, intentionally shaky camera movements and quick cuts, Bavari takes us on a tour de force through an unsettling imaginary cosmos that grips viewers and doesn’t let them loose. In addition to its extraordinary visuals, “Metachaos” features an i

• published: 21 Oct 2010
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