Intergalactique cemetery a Sci-fi short

[Mesuge]

This is just a raw shot from our forthcomming short with the provisional title: "Intergalactique cemetery" A little disappointment for the StarWars fans though.. we are deviating from the genre quite severly so I hope we don't get assassinated by the hard core fan/atiques.. 8)

The shot is from the opening part where just a few survivors of the cataclismic supernovea outburst manage to get out from the hell and start to look for another world.....little spoiler here.....unsuccessfully in the end ;D

http://img215.exs.cx/img215/6017/intergalactiquecemeteryint6ns.jpg

http://img197.exs.cx/img197/8050/supernovaakakorenuvfocal2wi.jpg

[BLUESPIDER]

um, showing a clip would be nice.. :)

[ronik15]

Yes, footage! footage!

[ExFilms]

Wow...how did you get the DVX out there????

[Kirk Gillock]

Working Title: Intergalactic Lens Flares

I agree, we need to see some footage. Something tells me this is a photoshop still.

[IncMedia]

cool

[crazymcnutjob]

OMG Bluespider, your icon is HILARIOUS

[Mesuge]

The rendering time for these CGI shots is enormous so the whole family and lot of friends have been assigned to dedicate at least a couple of hours daily of their cpu time to make it possible for a short with some CGI scenes like shown.

ExFilms> Yes it was kind of tricky to position the tripod, dolly, and crane with DVX100ae camera properly in the near vicinity of M42 Nebula.. ;D

This is a multileyered composit consisting of high quality renders with matching light & shadows properties for each frame and real hubble imaginary in RGB spectrum for the background which is altered by camera zooming out and a bit of CGI morphing. The 'chasing' DOF gives it a completly new dimension if you look at the shot for 20-30s you will feel sick of being it the middle of 'tunnel' to the center of the explosion..

P.K.G.> you are right this is a PS doctored lens flare layer I thought it might serve better in the explosion in somewhat more subtle way than ordinary sparks and stuff.. Although it might change in the future for a more suitable effect.

The footage is still being computed (using ordinary PCs and free render engine POV-ray and 3ds models -> due credit will be mentioned in titles). This is a non-commercial enterprise.. but IMAX version might be comming shortly (in 5years according to our rendering hardware capabilities :P) and on the condition that Mr. Lucas gives us an approval..aka unlikely :-X

Btw. I think that these high quality composite will be a poor man's choice of dooing jaw dropping SFX in comming years as the pc hw and grid computing evolves a bit further. Just imagine you could distribute it on the internet as a grid computing job which could be completed in a couple of days~weeks in case of bigger community..

[Soliton]

Speaking of grids, this one is for non-profit research projects but anyone interested can get an idea of what its all about.
http://www.grid.org/home.htm
All of my PCs are working on their cancer research project as we speak. My personal contribution is now nearly 9 years of CPU time. Awsome power!! :o

[Lens]

yes, it loox gr8!

[Kirk Gillock]

I'm still not 100% convinced this is for real. Please post a short 3d animation ASAP.