Tears of Steel - Linux Day presentation

Slides used to present The open Movie Project : Tears of Steel at Linux Day 2012 Torino.
more info : mango.blender.org

Transcript

1. -PROJECT MANGO- an open movie project by the The contents of this presentation are CC:by The Blender Institute / Mango Open Movie. Blender, Blender Institute , Blender Foundation logos are trademarks of the respective owners. Presentation slides editors : Nicolò Zubbini, Francesco Siddi
3. Blender is an integrated 3d suite for modelling, animation, rendering, post-production, matchmoving and realtime 3d . Celebrating in 2012, 10 years as Open Source. Blender and open movies
4. Open movies: Mango is the 5th open project (4th movie), after: Elephants Dream (2006) Big Buck Bunny (2008) Yo Frankie! (2008) Sintel (2010)
5. Mango concept Short vfx-based film with real actors, 3-5 min. Theme: Sci-fi in Amsterdam Technical targets • Camera and motion tracking • Photo-realistic rendering • Improved color pipeline • Improve compositing, (video/vfx) editing, masking and grading • Fire/smoke/volumetrics & explosions Project targets:
6. produced by TON ROOSENDAAL written and directed by IAN HUBERT The team:
7. Director of Photography: JORIS KERBOSH Music and Sound: JORAM LETWORY The team:
8. MANGO ARTISTS Lighting and compositing ANDREAS GORALCZYK concept art and storyboards DAVID REVOY layout, compositing and animation FRANCESCO SIDDI character rigging and animation JEREMY DAVIDSON The team:
9. Character design and modelling KJARTAN TYSDAL Environment design and modelling NICOLO' ZUBBINI Production assistance and environment modelling ROB TUYTEL Keying, plate cleanup and roto ROMAN VOLODIN Matchmoving, keying and compositing SEBASTIAN KOENIG The team:
10. The team: Blender development, scripting & studio pipeline: BRECHT VAN LOMMEL CAMPBELL BARTON SERGEY SHARYBIN
11. PRE-PRODUCTION: Development Tools for project mango were started before the project , tested and refined in production : -Brecht Van Lommel develops Cycles. (Complete , modern rewrite of render engine) -Kier Merle develops Libmv, CERES (libmv = OSS library for tracking) -Sergey Sharybin integrates Libmv in Blender (during gsoc 2011)
12. PRE-PRODUCTION: Development Tools for project mango were started before the project , tested and refined in production : -Jeroen Bakker rewrites compositor (tiles) (crowdfunded) -Sergey Sharybin and Campbell Barton develop masking tools.
13. PRE-PRODUCTION: Concept art
14. PRE-PRODUCTION: Concept art
15. PRE-PRODUCTION: Concept art
16. PRE-PRODUCTION: Kick-off workshop 1st week of production : make a movie* in 5 days. *...a short , test-movie , that is.
17. PRE-PRODUCTION: Kick-off workshop • Test the tools - define requests and targets. • agree on standards and organization. • define team roles.
18. PRE-PRODUCTION: Animatic frame from 'quadsplit' version (on the DVD!) : concept art - animatic footage - final
19. PRODUCTION: Locations Real-world location filming : permits, crowd control, dutch weather !
20. PRODUCTION: Locations ...And cg reconstruction : tracking + survey + blueprints data
21. PRODUCTION: Shooting Timelapses !
22. PRODUCTION: Sets
23. PRODUCTION: Sets
24. PRODUCTION: Sets
25. PRODUCTION: Sets
26. PRODUCTION: Costumes Costumes designed by: Pablo Londono Sarria
27. PRODUCTION: Costumes Costumes designed by: Pablo Londono Sarria
28. PRODUCTION: Props Props hunting on Queensday !
29. PRODUCTION: Props Barley's rifle : kit-bashed , cg augmented !
30. PRODUCTION: Cg and VFX ...And the rest is just pixels and polygons. (and tracks, masks, nodes...)
31. PRODUCTION: The quadbot
32. PRODUCTION: Arm-gun
33. PRODUCTION: Arm-gun
34. PRODUCTION: Celia's arm
35. PRODUCTION: Celia's arm
36. PRODUCTION: The Dome Challenges: • A coherent real world place to be reproduced digitally. • ...but also a sci-fi set to design from scratch.
37. PRODUCTION: The Dome Challenges: • A coherent real world place to be reproduced digitally. • ...but also a sci-fi set to design from scratch.
38. PRODUCTION: The Dome • a sci-fi set to design from scratch.
39. PRODUCTION: The Dome • important set for many shots, but to be optimized, based on definitive cameras.
40. PRODUCTION: The Dome • Potentially very hi-poly (env. size, damage and debris)
41. PRODUCTION: The Dome • re-projection and paintover for detailing damage and debris, and for rendertime.
42. PRODUCTION: The Dome Techniques : • texture re-use. • dirtmaps and stencils.
43. PRODUCTION: The Dome texture reuse and blending (for resolution / memory)
44. PRODUCTION: The Dome • the shell
45. PRODUCTION: The Dome • buildings
46. PRODUCTION: The Dome • kits of objects.
47. PRODUCTION: The Dome • planks kit.
48. PRODUCTION: The Dome • planks kit.
49. PRODUCTION: The Dome • kits of objects. ('greeble')
50. PRODUCTION: The Dome • other props
51. PRODUCTION: The Dome • other props.
52. PRODUCTION: Cityscape Opposite situation and techniques compared to the dome.
53. PRODUCTION: The Church Challenges: • Limitations for shooting on site. (permits) • getting away just with photo backgrounds ? ..issues with matching light and angles.
54. PRODUCTION: The Church • use of blueprints and technical drawings. If not for precision , for speed of modelling, coherence of parts.
55. PRODUCTION: The Church Techniques : • heavy use of photo projection on 'simple' models • ..'simple' still meaning correct silhouette of a complex architectural space.
56. PRODUCTION: The Church simulations (exploding organ)
57. PRODUCTION: Cycles render engine
58. POST-PRODUCTION: VFX : Tracking
59. POST-PRODUCTION: VFX : masking
60. POST-PRODUCTION: VFX: Compositing
61. PRODUCTION: Breakdowns of steel !
62. Get Blender ! : www.blender.org And the DVD : mango.blender.org
63. Questions ?