Hard Disk Drive - 3D Visualization

[CaribbeanAMVArtist]

each platter has two read/write heads XD i was correct

[CaribbeanAMVArtist]

Awesome 

[kurtoe]

Pretty nice and detailed animation, though that I it is not fair to leave out that the screws is not turned to get out, since you made a lodt of ther nice effects. :D

[stertingen]

its awesome. but do it whith better light reflections next time, okay?

[jonaspoffyn]

Amazing, but why?

[hilllbilllyjoe]

did you model this?

[orkblutt]

Woowww! Excellent! I feel so noob when I compare your work to mine!

Keep the good work ! Should be so great if you could make a tutorial... I'm also curious how you used CryEngine...

[ashinlive36302gmail]

Awesome Work Man..:)

[kalogias]

That was awesome man. I just started using 3dsMax and I hope one day I could do these stuff. Great job again. ^_^

[JustLokalhost]

This is very good...

The only thing I didnt like, is that the screws didnt turn.

Then it would be awesome

[UnknownArtFish]

great job (: ill support u with like fav and sub (:

[Daneilxxx1]

... in 3D it would look (more) great :DD

[HatchetHaro]

AHA! Now that I've seen this, I now know how to make a hard disk drive!

*A few years later*

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU­UUUUUUUUUUUUUUU-

[krotosistvan]

Cool.... excellent job!!!!!

[skmedix]

WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[graycrystal]

Hard drive striptease. Hey make a girl version of this :D

Awesome job btw

[invis45]

0.0

[Victim700]

wow...

[revenge9026xbox]

I know tons of people post stuff like this, but I bet 8 people were really jealous of your skillz.

[TheHiguty]

Subbed.

[RakkiXIII]

on a scale of 1- ZOMGYOU'REAGOD!!! how hard is it to make this, and how long did it take. I ask because im thinking of going into this profession, but holy *bleep* that looks hard to make.

[BakaYing]

We are learning to make characters in school with 3D max and i see this >.<

envy mutch

[Bunie1989]

If i had one problem with this, its that the hard drive is too clean. Nobodys drive is that clean, theyre always covered in dust, lol. Also, maybe the metals could have had more Gloss? Good Job, though! :D Amazed me, at first anyways.

[KyuS4n]

holy mother of god o.o

[mikenco]

Amazing video. I like how the neodymium magnets just float apart. Normally got to wrestle them with a meaty flat head screwdriver! ;)

[littleMerlin1]

dude .... you . are . GOD!!!!

[theulair]

you got some pretty good skills :) very cool video

[PeterTheEater]

8 dislikes?

Really?

Who dislikes this?

Awesome vid!

[CommanderTyphoon555]

Whish I was a Jedi

[MegaWheelchairMan]

cool song

[T34MF4T3L355]

samsung should have paid you to do this :D

[MCruzerProductions]

Awesome LFS

[TechDificulties]

ya there's something easier then making a hole rendering video its called taking it apart your self...

[Azm1Kha1qal]

@TechDificulties will you sacrifice your hard drive for that?

[TechDificulties]

@Azm1Kha1qal

XD you know you can just go out and buy a expiremental one rite and say money well wasted...

[vetovius]

Man, Your animation is great! And you always chose awesome music!

[3FKD3master]

Amazing is all I have to say....oh and uh 3D animation probably was hard, huh?

[BlackDragonIX]

Really stunning... Awesome work!

[ciphernemo]

Excellent job. But why on earth did you use an ancient IDE drive? You can get a modern SATA drive for $50 to measure and use in your 3D software. Also, those screws are not Phillips... they're all hex screws on hard drives.

[ultek]

@ciphernemo Because IDE connector is far more interesting (in 3d way) than new SATA connector.

[archaedious]

@ciphernemo My HDD has star-head screws. They can be anything the manufacturer decides.

[ciphernemo]

@archaedious Yup, it can vary with different manufacturers, from hex to star. But none of them use Phillips screws since they want to make it difficult for consumers to open them.

[TheFamine123]

@ciphernemo actaully some harddrives (Samsung) use phillips head. And most use Torx. not hex. The problem with phillips is they strip easily. I have taken apart a hard drive that is almost hte exact same as this one. Except it was an 80GB not 160.

[Boelens258]

@LethalDozePL

Do you realise all the work behind something like this?

[Kill3rDyl]

Wow... this is incredible, great job !!! Liked, favourited, subbed!

[miciok94]

genialne odwzorowanie dysku :D szacun

takie pytanko ile cały model dysku posiada vertexów/polygonów?

[ultek]

@miciok94 Dzieki :) Gdyby nie gwinty na srubkach i gdyby poświęcić troszkę więcej czasu na czyszczenie modelu pod względem siatki, myślę że zmieściłbym się w 20 tysiącach trójkątów. Jednakże nie zależało mi za bardzo na małej ilości poly a z całością się spieszyłem więc skończyło się około na 60k trisów...

[MgZenixxx]

WoW !

[ADEzor]

For "just a" hard disk drive, I actually found this video entertaining. :D Just brilliant

[hassanselim0]

@LethalDozePL IT's imporessive cause he modelled every tiny part of the HDD in very high detail, I tried some modeling myself and it's freakin' hard ! D:

[sanderhandeland]

it wasnt really entertaining but, i dont think thats the whole point of this video ;) . i must say it's an pretty impressive job. liked the music selection , texturing , modeling. and @LethalDozePL could you even be close to make something like this...?

[SKYia]

Pretty impressive, nice music too :)

[MrReubenTurner]

Music: Ronald Jenkees - Super-Fun

[KubaGameplay]

GENIALNE WYKONANIE! Ile to się renderowało 2 miesiące? :D

[ultek]

@KubaGameplay: 3 minuty. :) Wlasniego dlatego wykorzystalem cryengine poniewaz zalezalo mi na czasie. Nie mialo byc wodotrysków tylko sprawne przedstawienie HDD...

[KubaGameplay]

@ultek

Ho ho ho, nieźle. Naprawdę, piękna animacja. Może zrobię coś ze swoim dyskiem ;D

[KubaGameplay]

@ultek

Według mnie i tak są wodotryski ;P

Ja jeszcze nie robię takich animacji ;D

[666CS]

music so nice

[hax0rTEAM]

6 PEOPLE STILL DONT KNOW WHAT IT IS TO HAVE MORE THAN 4 GIGABYTES OF HARD DISK :P

[Robloxluver1]

This is way more epic then it should be really grabbed my attention :D

[npgilbertson95]

WOW, every detail was perfect. although, for realistics. the hard drives arm would've been moving atleast twice that speed. but it was pretty good otherwise

WOOT

[dziaslo94]

Amazing animations ;D

[dziaslo94]

Song name? Is original? ;)

[i4xrush]

Thats a pretty old HDD, considering it uses molex and pata :)

[TheMooee]

You are indeed talented, my friend. This would also make a fun interactive app or something :)

[chadunn13]

you are truly a wizard among muggles

[doublenum]

wow, great job dude... This type of visualization always fascinated me. Maybe you can do an analog photo-camera? :P

[Brygelsmack]

@LethalDozePL: Well, can you do better?

[raztastic007]

mate very good job, well done, keep up with the good work.

[franss62]

Bon travail (good job :D)

[NFSVIDEOCHANNEL]

More than "just" epic! Great work, thumbs up:)

[n3mk4]

Świetna animacja, pamiętaj to co Ci napisałam tam gdzie dyskutowaliśmy :)

[mkk3a]

2:48 there are always some screws left :)

[Bunchpoland]

Polak potrafi!

[ultek]

@LethalDozePL No problem mate ;) My general point was to visualize how the hdd works and what's inside that small metal box...

[KatsuhitoTheEmperor]

Looks great, but i want to know what did you use CryEngine for? Modeling, texturing etc you probably did in 3ds, every texture in photoshop, premiere to edit the video, but what was cryenine for?

[ultek]

@KatsuhitoTheEmperor First thing is rendering times. 3 minutes movie @ 30fps, is about 5400 frames in total... If every frame is rendering for 15-20 minutes (I don't have high-end pc) then you need 60-75 days total to render whole movie. That wasn't solution for me. I used game engine to display the hdd, so I was able to "render" whole 3 min movie in real time.

I could use UT3, Unity or other game engine, but I choose CE just because I liked it...

[WackoMcGoose]

@ultek That's actually a really good idea. I wonder how some of these Minecraft animations would look if done this way...

But the question is, how does Crysis do it in real-time when 3dsmax doesn't?

[ultek]

@WackoMcGoose 3dsmax uses advanced rendering techniques (awesome reflections/refractions, photon emissions, on-the-fly lightning maps, etc.) and computes everything using CPU. Game engine like cryengine, udk or similar uses precompiled shaders and stuff using GPU. There are several renderers using GPU but I haven't playing with them yet so I can't tell anything about them atm.

[MrDraiger]

Man ! Go work in Ubisoft/EA/Activison or something like that! You have talent!

[kudlaty88888888]

Zajebiście.

Życzę ci żeby cię jakieś studio zatrudniło do pracy nad grami.

[TheAussieStew]

Is there self shadowing on the hard drive? Great work

[DJXT87]

Dude if you made this and did the modeling I might hire you for the production of the game I am designing!

[wpte]

Never knew they used atmel chips in harddrives...

Cool to see that that the cryengine also delivers maximum harddrive now :)

[bungie17]

Wow, awesome work!! congratulations. One Question: This is not realtime right?, it's rendered on Cryengine frame by frame?, thx

[ultek]

@bungie17 It's played in cryengine, and grabbed with fraps :)

[Lumi3007]

Nice work :)

How long did it take you to make this video?

[ultek]

@Lumi3007 First .max files were created late last year (middle of december)... But it's hard to say how many hours in total....

[DaVi0PL]

good job ;)

[sermerlin1]

there sure are lots and lots of screws!

[321John654]

And the last 3 Screws? :D

Awesome. I have a Samsung HDD hanging naked on my wall. I also use it for a mirror. :)

[sk9688]

GREAT! Love it

[3rdHalf1]

Freakin AWESOME!!!

In the end of video - the scene's wireframe didn't looked that complicated. So I have a question: Can this video be played realtime on engine? And if so: maybe you could share the project to Crymod's DB, as tech demo.

[ultek]

@3rdHalf1: This is possible, but to keep things clean while working in trackview, I did every shot in single file. But with a little bit of work this can be collapsed to one file and run smoothly in Cryengine.