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Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Joel

Joel — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 19:55:45 +0000

This blew my mind. MAKE A MOVIE OF IT PLEASE!

Comment on Ruined City Flyover – First Pass by Charles Townsend

Charles Townsend — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 20:39:16 +0000

Just wanted to say, I love the work. I am a student at Full Sail University. I sent your sites URL to a few people there. I really want to see the finished product of Ruin, but also all of the back stage stuff. I am very impressed.

Thanks for sharing this out.

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Matt Mowrey

Matt Mowrey — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 06:58:57 +0000

I’m sure you already know this but someone took this video and paired it with the song “Sail” by AWOLNation on YouTube and together it turned out incredible. Excellent stuff and I look forward to seeing more of your work in the future.

Comment on RUIN: Overhead Chase v2 by Aaron Barnes

Aaron Barnes — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 21:18:54 +0000

Ahh ok, trailer looks sweet, LW seems like a robust app alright, hopefully Modo will get to that animation stage soon as well. Then it will be one dangerous program. Good luck with the rest of the film.

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Jaagup Metsalu

Jaagup Metsalu — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 23:40:28 +0000

Hey!

I just wanted to say what a huge inspiration this project and other works of yours are to me. I discovered your website yesterday and i’ve spent two nights browsing through everything. I really love your stuff and i’m looking forward to seeing more from your on-going animation projects.

All the best to you and thanks for the experience!!!

Comment on RUIN: Overhead Chase v2 by wesball

wesball — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:13:25 +0000

No worries. If you look at the date of this post, you’ll see that this was a very early test shot I did one day. I hadn’t even decided to make a short when I made this thing.

The RUIN trailer I just released has the final work.

But in general I agree with your comments.

Plus, I think this one was actually donein LW.

Comment on RUIN: Overhead Chase v2 by Aaron Barnes

Aaron Barnes — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 22:06:45 +0000

Hey mate,

I hope i don’t over step the mark with feedback, just thought i would drop my comments. The atmosphere and modelling is perfect the only issue i think could be improved is how the jet comes past the camera. For such a large powerful machine it should give more impact and scale thrown past the camera as it flys by, maybe a slight heat trail for a split second as the jet scims past the lens. Maybe some dust residue blowing off the top and wings like it has been sitting on a building for years waiting for life and then it has fired up for a chase. Great concept and style though, really pushing modo in the process, sensational work.

cheers

Aaron

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by dan

dan — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 17:05:56 +0000

i would love to use this outfit at a convention can you tell me what the coat was you used and the head gear please this outfit and video is really amazing and would love to represent it! at a convention

Comment on RUIN: Character Test Renders by wesball

wesball — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:30:50 +0000

Lightwave and Modo

Comment on RUIN: Character Test Renders by Tunde

Tunde — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:21:25 +0000

Great work guys/Gal. Do you use Maya, Max or cinema? The ruins teaser is Killer!!

Comment on Ruins render tests by Deocliciano

Deocliciano — Sat, 10 Sep 2011 19:44:21 +0000

Lovely work!

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Patti Endicott

Patti Endicott — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 12:02:14 +0000

I have traveled the world and never have I seen or experienced the music like this that touches my soul. I have seen paintings by the greatest artists, been to the most famous opera’s and symphonies. This IS a masterpiece.

Comment on Speed concept… the Visit by Luciano Daluz

Luciano Daluz — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 04:40:15 +0000

Got say, man you are good! Just love the mood “Closer encounters” in your work. Well I guess you like the UFO subject…me too. And its funny because I like After Effects and MODO too.
I m working in a short animation for an UFO MAGAZINE here in Brasil called UFO (www.ufo.com.br) and I wish I could come with some stuff close to what you do.
Keep on the good work.
Take care.
Luciano Daluz

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by wesball

wesball — Fri, 27 May 2011 19:04:13 +0000

Still use lightwave. Just not for this one. I did use lightwave to add some plant animation for MDD though.

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Scott

Scott — Thu, 26 May 2011 14:58:11 +0000

Where can I get those clouds? I could use those type of clouds.. Love the Atmosphere to bad you did not use Lightwave but everybody has a preference, great job just the same.

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by wesball

wesball — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 10:12:34 +0000

Heh heh. Thanks.

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Chris Gallagher

Chris Gallagher — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 01:43:16 +0000

Bloody hell …. this looks like ILM did this. Great effort and execution. You folks indeed have “the eye.” I cannot believe what you can do in after effects today. I also love the fact that so many suites were used … I’m seeing that this is how it’s done more and more today. I started out in Light Wave … many years ago… good to see it’s still being used. Mixing software gives you an edge I think – people are wondering how you did this. OMG – the mix of old (praticle) and new – ALL of you who worked on this are great artists and techheads! Only crit is… and I know you know this – is the dragon fly off. Given time you had – this is out of the park. I’m showing this to all my peeps.

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Blog - Pandamanga.com

Blog - Pandamanga.com — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 22:43:41 +0000

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Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Alain

Alain — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 18:49:01 +0000

Very educative and inspiring

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by wesball

wesball — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 06:41:11 +0000

Yes. Essentially, we keyed the footage, then turned the character black and white. That gave us decent greyscale tones which were then colorized using the the tint effect. And for particular glows, we would just extract a particular color and colorize and that specific part.

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Chaz

Chaz — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:58:09 +0000

Hello all and wonderful work! Being new to keying effects, I’d love to hear what actual After Effects tools were used to pull the florescent colors and a little bit about how it was done? Were they just converted to black and white after they were keyed? Very unique

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by EYE OF THE STORM – INDELIBLE

EYE OF THE STORM – INDELIBLE — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 23:24:04 +0000

[...] Beautiful music video animation by Oddball Animation. [...]

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Reihe Sieben - Unterhaltung mit rotem Faden

Reihe Sieben - Unterhaltung mit rotem Faden — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:01:36 +0000

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Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by yuriki

yuriki — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:01:52 +0000

Wow! That is great atmospheric short!
Flight of the dragon could be better but the entire part of animation just excellent!

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Sarah S

Sarah S — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:52:25 +0000

Hi All, I’m new on here and excited to be a part of the threaded

Comment on RUIN: Overhead Chase v2 by jm

jm — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 13:05:16 +0000

hm .. something up with the url. here:

http://www.db-w.com/products/shadermeister/examples

Comment on RUIN: Overhead Chase v2 by wesball

wesball — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 11:20:00 +0000

I’m just about to start using it again, so I haven’t really noticed the improvements yet. I’ll have to look into the shadermeister plugin, but it seems his site is down at the moment.

501 still seems just as crashy for me, but it can definitely handle the bigger scenes, which I welcome.

Comment on RUIN: Overhead Chase v2 by jm

jm — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:04:48 +0000

Nice work wes!

Have you had a chance to use the updated dpInstance, with coloured wireframe previews, speed-ups and shadermeister (!) support?

Also curious how 501 is now handling the bigger scenes.

Cheers!

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Keith Stacey

Keith Stacey — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 21:22:09 +0000

Beautiful, beautiful work!

Comment on EYE OF THE STORM featuring Lovett by Andy

Andy — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 19:30:44 +0000

Wow, this is great! This is VERY close to a project I have in the works these next few months. Any advice on what you used for glows, cloud/fog footage, etc? I sense some trapcode and keyed smoke footage in there? Excellent work! Cheers, Andy