Black Eyed Peas - The Time [Dirty Bit] MAKING OF (Music Video)

The new Black Eyed Peas music video takes a kind bow in the direction of the fabulous short film PIXELS www.vimeo.com/​13362364 by Patrick Jean.

We finished 17 shots for the new video in 3 weeks and took over and redid 1 shot from Asylum VFX that ironically dropped dead on deadline day :(
I did the initial R&D (you might have seen this: www.vimeo.com/​14869572), the master particle setup and rendering setup as well as most of the rendering. Particle Flow Box#2's BirthGrid as well as a Particle Flow Box#3's abilities to read geometry parameters and shaders did speed up the workflow dramatically. Fergie's materialization was achieved by John Rand with Krakatoa PRT Volumes and KCMs as well as Krakatoa Particle Flow operators. Renderings done with VRay. Supervision, some 3D and Comp done by Rodrigo Washington/Animaholics.

Full video can be watched on the BEP YouTube Channel:
www.youtube.com/​watch?v=JwQZQygg3Lk

The Black Eyed Peas are going to perform the 2011 Superbowl halftime show.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• black eyed peas
• time
• dirty bit
• bep
• fergie
• will.i.am
• music
• video
• 3ds max
• 3dmax
• 3ds
• max
• vray
• chaosgroup
• particle
• particle flow
• pro
• orbaz
• box2
• box3
• after effects
• krakatoa
• autodesk
• pixels
• pixelation

[felimedia]

Awesome visual effects! Bravo :) Question for you though, Could the voxel effect just be achieved with krakatoa with the render to voxel? And How did you create the meshes from the camera match and which direction did you go about for camera matching and modeling off the camera match? Love the work, sorry for the questions. But curious and interested.

[PsychoSilence]

@felimedia Hi felimedia, the grids in this case were mainly created using BirthGrid from Box#2, only one shot has a PRT volume solution. But it could be created with PRT volumes and Frost as easy. Unfortunately Frost was not around when we made this. The camera match was done by match move artists on rigged basic characters, that was all good old fashioned hand work ;)

[icerunner47]

Wo ist der Ton?

[PsychoSilence]

@icerunner47 Ton gibt's keinen weil ich nicht die Rechte an dem Lied habe! Ich hab nur die 3d pixel gemacht ;)

[naruto9tails123456]

WHAT THE HELL IS THIS

[PsychoSilence]

@naruto9tails123456 a making of!

[coolninja888]

No Sound No GOOD

[ORGFilmsTV]

Here for the original official song. - /watch?v=YaMpCUIzYB0

[felimedia]

@PsychoSilence Thanks so much for the reply and on the insight. I appreciate it.

[wei750830]

very cool stuff

i final search for ur breakdown!!

i am very thx for u guys

we all love VFX!!

thx again^^

[nomnomlad]

Particle flow box #2 plugin for 3ds max :)

[luckviewer777]

FANTASTIC

this is really what I'm looking for!!

do you have any tutorial??