Pre Viz CG Clouds and City Shot - Vue 6 Infinite

[VengeStudios]

Seems like you slowed the video itself down. the frame rate is sluggish

[Windurin]

@VengeStudios

Yeah, I did. Otherwise it would have only been a few secons long lol. It took three days to render just 10 secs of footage. If I wanted a slower 2 min long version of the tracking shot, it would have taken WEEKS to render.

[jeystonemusic]

they should give u a bafta

[mNuOsTiEcS]

where did you get the clouds from could you email me them if possible

[pex98]

amazing !! ^^ but how is called the soundtrack that you used for this intro...?? and who is the composer , it's so beautiful! aw* ^^

[Windurin]

@pex98

The song is called 'None of Your Business' by Choi Seung-hyeon. It is from the soundtrack to the film 'Lady Vengeance', directed by Park Chan-wook.

[ADMediaEmpire]

FINALLY!!! SOMEONE HAS ACTUALLY USED VUE PROPERLY!!!!!! Fantastic intro, I'm trying to do a shortish feature film with this software, and this is pretty much how I had visioned it. I plan to start at the bottom of teh scene and go through the clouds and into Space. I love the possibilities of this software

[Windurin]

@ADMediaEmpire

Thanks for the comments, I'm glad you liked it. Keep me updated on your scene/short film, I'd be interested in seeing it. Chris.

[ADMediaEmpire]

@Windurin Yeah no problem mate, looks fantastic. Well I've tested some scenes out in my Trailer for my film I'm going to make so you can check it out on my channel. It's called Flame Extinction Theatrical Trailer. It's all a bit basic but it was just quickly for a trailer, and I'll be working to every detail on the final shots for the actual film, but check it out and leave a comment :D

[Yrayra1955]

Wow..Great job!!..I have this software in Vue 8 and it's not as easy as it seems.I Still haven't dominated it..

[Windurin]

Thanks. I'm still using Vue 6 at the moment, I only have the Personal Learning Edition of Vue 8. Vue 8 has some great new features, but you still need a lot of processing power to render high-quality scenes.

Vue isn't exactly simple to use, but it's one of the easier 3D packages out there compared to others.

[Buditokid]

nice work dude looks like assasins creed...no..this its most better...greets from mexico

[Optics233]

You may not have had the processing power, but you certainly had the talent. This looked great, with some more work you'd have been able to fully realize what you wanted, I think.

[Windurin]

Thanks for the comment. I am still doing tests with the Personal Learning Edition of Vue 8 (the latest version). When I can afford to buy it, I will make a new video similar in concept with higher rendering specs.

[bamflyer]

rlly good and when i judge i compare material to movies today, you have standards that are higher than most films :) keep it up

[15Protech]

ahh, it got my heart warming for a few secounds there Beautyful

[alienchipo159]

nice work

the song come whit the program ? vue6 ?

[Windurin]

No, the song is:

'None Of Your Business' from the 'Lady Vengeance' Soundtrack by Choi Seung-hyeon

[RickRay9]

Great one. Good luck with it.

[tareksabra]

did u render the two shots ( sky and city ) separately and then edited them ..or they were combined in one scene??

[Windurin]

Hi. The shots were rendered separately and edited together. It was possible to do a complete fly-through, but I wasn't happy with the results so I decided to do 2 separate shots.

[frig2]

Hi there! What's the name of the song? Its awesome, and your work as well!

[S4mmy0ps]

Check the description :D

[frig2]

Oh, my mistake! Thanks anyway ;)

[S4mmy0ps]

Thats ok dude :D

[calisaetia]

Hey can I ask how long something like this takes to render, and can you give me some advice for lowering render times but still keeping good quality. Great concept btw!

[Windurin]

Hi,

This took about 70+ hours (3 days!) to render fully on my old computer: 2MB RAM, single core 2.66GHz. On a dual core it would still have taken around 40-50 hours and on my current 4GM RAM, quad core PC, I would say still 20+ hours...

A long time, but consider that photorealistic Hollywood effects take as many hours on supercomputer renderfarms...

To reduce render times, forget about fancy effects like motion blur and keep the anti-aliasing to a minimum without sacrifcing the quality.

[xslayahx]

No, the problem is the GPU. It depends entirely on your GPU. If it was one of the newer nVIDIA models with PhysX, then it should process quite fast.

[euphoricanomaly]

nice work! vue 6 is a monster capable of some crazy shit, I use Vue 6 XStream, but I haven't touched on animation yet.

[abkl123]

Nice I have vue6 too. I'm not sure if I can ask you something, how did you made these clouds ?

[Windurin]

The clouds were made with the Atmosphere Editor. It's a combination of 4 different types of clouds and tweaking the parameters until you get what you need. Just experiement. Later versions of Vue also have 'MetaClouds' which are fully customisable and can produce very realistic results when done right.

[SingularityProject]

Nice! I know how it is to get over your head with these things. I was working on a project that should have been a team of cgi animators. In the end, you can only do so much by yourself.

[dude23133]

music makes me cry )': naa just kiding nice

[fullchimp1]

hey again i just dwn loaded this is so hard its un true. i wanna make a building but how do i get all the detale on there

[Windurin]

It's not really a modelling program, it's more for natural environments. But you can import 3D models in various format, then you just double click on its Material option and choose froma variety of textures. However, if you want to get into technicalities like bump mapping and normal mapping, it gets a lot harder. I'd recommend 3DS Max or Maya instead.

[fullchimp1]

can sum 1 give me the link to this program plz....

[Windurin]

I've added a link to the official site in the video description box. You can get a Personal Learning Edition from there. It's the full software, but your projects will have a watermark on them, so it's not for commercial use. If you want the full legit version, I highly recommend you buy it. If you're a digital Jack Sparrow, I can't help you... : )

[azncoasterkid56]

Hey,

I've been trying to do a CG Shot similar to this for my studio...I use xStream and I'm totally clueless, haha. Can you refer me to a tutorial or give me a few tips? I would appreciate it!

And this is a very impressive video! Inspiringly beautiful.

[sk8terchristian]

no probs, hey maybe you didn't know how to do that, but if you know how to save or watch the final rendering of any thing, can you tell me? or any one else who knows i need it fast

[Pollenfax]

That is fantastic. Excellent job!

[areznaroque]

Hey, personally speakin, i thought the vid was good. it gave the general look and feel + mood of the intro. I can understand this was just the prototype and was meant to be a rough visualization. Keep it up, and even if u've given up I hope ur trying some other ones cuz i'd love to see what else u can come up with!

[Kotorus618]

3 days to render.. wow.... what GPU were you using?

[Windurin]

Raedon 9550... nothing sepcial at all.

I'm looking forward to doing the re-render of the new scene with my new PC, which is a Quad-core with 2GB RAM and a 8800GTX card.

[stokmarknes]

you should really get 4 or 8 gigs of RAM, if it's going to be a video/3D computer!

[dejavu2me]

Yo windurin I finaly got Vue 6 infinite!

Any chance you can tell me how to do those infinite clouds? cheers

[sk8terchristian]

hey dajavu2me, to make the clouds, go to the little icon on the left of the screen, and clock on the 7th icon going down, and it loks like a cloud. to pick the type of cloud, right click on it and then you have it.

[dejavu2me]

sk8terchristian thanks man, I cant believe its that simple!!!!!! Im ashamed! lol

[knupps]

Great work. I use a Quad prosessor and it speeds up the rendering. Have built up a small renderfarm with to old PCs at 2Ghz each. It helps a bit.

[BlackHawk02]

What song is that? I want to use it for 1 of my Vue 6 Scene's!

[Windurin]

Not to be a d*ck, but it is in the video description...

Music Used: 'None Of Your Business' from the 'Lady Vengeance' Soundtrack by Choi Seung-hyeon.

Anyway, if you don't want to look for it, contact me by email if you want me to send it to you.

[olivierjmitchell]

Why does it lag ?

[Windurin]

Because there were some hiccups during the rendering, and considering it took 3 days to render... I couldn't be bothered doing another one :)

[olivierjmitchell]

why di you think that happen? your pc is not powerful engouth ?

[Windurin]

Yeah, probably. It's a 4 year old POS. I'm getting a quad core in the next few weeks so I'll see how it runs on that...

[tubbylardman]

I have a Intel Quad Core running at 3ghz. Its going to take a long time to render that even on a quad core. About 20 to 40hrs. I tried rendering something less complex and it took about 25hrs.

[wluckow]

haha, thanks for the help! Now i just need to gather the money for vue 6 infinate :/

[Windurin]

I think it's worth every penny, as long as you use it enough. Have you tried the 'Personal Learning Edition', just to see what kind of scenes you can handle, before you go out and buy it? Just a thought.

[wluckow]

What's that? I actually never heard of it

[Windurin]

It's basically the Eduacational version lol. It's the full software for FREE, however, any work you save will have a watermark over it so it's not really presentable although watchable of course, but it's a great way to play around with the software in full without paying for it.

You can donwload in on e-On Software's official site.

[wluckow]

Hey the video looks great!

I was just wondering what your comp processing power was, because I'm interested if my current computer could handle something like that.

[Windurin]

Hi, and thank you for the comment.

My current PC I rendered this on isn't actually very impressive at all.

- AMD Athlon Processor

- 2.08GHz, 2GB RAM

It's good to have as much RAM as possible for not only rendering, but simply being able to process and handle the scene with that many polyogns. My PC is slowly dying on me and running a lot slower these days, so when I now open the same project, it crashed 9 times out of 10.

[Windurin]

To handle a scene like this COMFORTABLY, I'd say you need at LEAST a Core 2 Duo processor and at LEAST 1GB RAM, preferably 2GB+.

[Windurin]

Oh, and just another note: I am referring to the city scene in the last comments, because the clouds and the city are actually 2 completely separate scenes, edited together with a simple dissolve cut.

The city has hundreds of millions of polygons while the cloud scene is very easy to handle and is simply excessive tinkering with the atmosphere editor.

[wluckow]

Alright, great :D.

I am running an AMD 64 X2 6000 dual core at 3Ghz with 2 gigs, and an nvidia 8600GT...think that will do the trick?

[Windurin]

Haha, Jesus Christ! Your PC will walk all over a scene like that! You lucky thing... :)

[traiano]

The camera is out of focus when it pass near the objects in the ground.. check out ur render ouputs codecs bye

[magicbeast7]

Wow. Extremely nice. You might not have achieved your initial goals, Windurin, but your video and the music is so wonderful it inspired me to do something similar as well. I love it!!

[Roos999]

what is the band that makes this music,

ontopic:it looks cool man this is de netx big thing after lord of the rings :)

[Windurin]

It's not a band, it's a composer... it was in the video description but here:

Music Used: 'None Of Your Business' from the 'Lady Vengeance' Soundtrack by Choi Seung-hyeon. So it's from the Korean film called 'Lady Vengeance' from the same director of 'Oldboy'.

Thanks for the comment.

[Najlepshy]

Great animation, great music... I'm really impressed...

[Windurin]

Thanks for all the comments. I've recently been able to improve the clouds so that they are actually animated as opposed to static and the camera moves through them as opposed to just over them. And I've also adjusted the lighting to give it more atmosphere as the current one is a little bit bland. However, I still don't have my new PC which I would be able to render it a lot quicker on, so I will upload the new version when I get the new PC and have completed a new render.

[olaysketchup]

Great mix of video, audio and other major components. Nice job on those volumetric clouds too!

[LeviathanLair]

Beautiful video!!! My compliments!

The song you chose is amazing!!! 5/5

[JacobSheppard]

Looks great.  love it. I need to get you to do one for me.

[MaxDolphin75]

Molto suggestivo complimenti, mi dici il nome della colonna sonora?

Grazie

Max.

[LeviathanLair]

Guarda nella descrizione, c'è scritto!