The Life of a Gum Ball

Short "pre-visualization" style animation for Art Creation class at the Guildhall at SMU.

Actually, it's more like pre-pre-pre viz (also known as super crap quality animation - no final gather, no caustics, indirect illumination, low poly-count, little or no material maps, etc.).

Anyway, the reason for the actual render quality being so low is due to 2 facts:
1. EXTREMELY short time constraints.
2. Scenes all rendered on a Dell XPS 1730m laptop. *sigh* I wish I had access to a (free) render farm.

This entire animation was completed from concept sketches to final render in about 2 work days (16-24 hrs).

The assignment was to create a simple short story with animation using a ball shaped object.

The videos our instructor showed for previous student examples were 30 seconds long at most and silent.
My "ball" animation is choreographed to music and is 3:30 long.

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• ball
• guildhall
• guild
• hall
• SMU
• 3ds max
• Danger
• Vyle
• 00:01
• 00h00
• thesixtyone
• itunes
• music
• gum
• gumball
• machine
• bubble
• 3d
• 2009
• animation
• pixar
• dreamworks
• low
• poly
• no
• final
• gather
• indirect
• illumination
• caustics

[MasterOfWar000]

also is it free?

[MasterOfWar000]

what software did u use?

[thochan]

I laughed, I cried, I ate a gumball