Spinner landing

A personal project of mine meant as a tribute to my favorite film, Blade Runner.
The whole thing started out as a CG channel contest that took way too long. It then became a training exercise to learn Vray and Thinking Particles. I ended up finishing it in my spare time with the help of a few friends.

I did the 3D modeling of the spinner, blimp and city, texturing, lighting, animation, smoke VFX and compositing.

The spinner smoke FX was achieved with a combination of Fume FX and Thinking Particles. Modeling was done in Softimage XSI and texturing, lighting in 3dsmax with Vray render.

I have to give credit where it's due and I would like to thank my friends who believed in a group effort and helped bring this project together.

City matte painting: Benoit Ladouceur

Ambiant fog VFX: Raonull Conover

3D character modeling: Maximilien Albert

Rigging: Phil Dugas

Supervisor Live action:Ghislain Ouellet

Makeup Geisha:Cynthia Lauzon

Geisha: Anh Dao

Billboard animation clip: Jihane Geadah

Sound design: Luke Hatton

I would like to give thanks to some very helpful individuals who were a great help as well.
Sandra Gaudreau, Jean-René Trudel, Patrick Gosselin,
Pierre Cataford, Alexandre Gagné, Judith Maltais.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• blade runner
• spinner
• fume fx
• car
• science-fiction
• cgi
• 3D
• vray
• thinking particle
• blimp
• city night

[zerokomma]

Absolutely great!

[stevethefishdotnet]

Wow, that's amazing! I hate to nitpick though, but the smoke should've been bluish white. The way it is, it looks like the engine needs a tune-up badly. Still, thumbs up.

[outlando]

love it!

[Nexus6combatmodel]

Outstanding

[arkhangel1967]

Friggin AWESOME!!!

[rjampiolo32]

So nice, my friend!

[xbladerunner]

Great job! I enjoyed it.