Maya for models, textures and dynamics; rendered with Octane Render.
This is my submission for the 3d render animation Octane Render Apocalypse Competition 2011 | December 2011
This is my contribution for the apocalypse competition, I’ve made using Octane 1.0 Beta and Maya + After effects and Photoshop for color correction, glow and motion blur. No commercial models were used, everything you see was made by me (meshes, textures, ecc..). I started to work on it in November and I must say one thing: I had a lot of fun! I used this 9 days of time-extension to refine the music.
THE IDEA
Everyone expects the apocalypse day will happen with some kind of fireballs, hurricanes and with a divine intervention that will punish us in a very special-fx way: I don’t think so.
The idea is that the human race will decree its apocalypse with its own hands, I don’t think we need the help of external forces to accomplish that!
We are really over stressing the world’s natural resources to create a lot of useless things, and this is what we call “progress”. I believe the real meaning of progress is another. Our precious planet is seriously risking to be destructed by the garbage of our “progress”.
If we don’t change then our apocalypse will come simply as a result of our excesses. My video tries to tell this story.
MY PROJECT
My project consists in 3 different scenes that I called:
1 our progress
2 its price
3 the apocalypse
Besides the animation I’ve submitted 3 HD stills + 3 stereoscopic views. Hope you have a pair of compatible glass to enjoy the 3D images (I used the simple one made with paper and coloured gels).
I’ve also submitted some of the materials I used in the scenes. To say the turth I used a lot of simple materials (without a node editing), so I submitted just the interesting ones, where I made textures and material editing.
The music was composed by me and my great friend Paolo Spadini….I also enjoyed my self playing guitars tracks!
