Animation & more

[VIDEO] Weather change time lapse - Maya cloud fluids and paint effects

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 19:16:00 +0000

Created this weather time lapse for a project. It was originally rendered in 6100 x 718 resolution at 60 fps, which was displayed on a big screen.
The clouds are just basic Maya fluids with animated texture position and colour.
I used several cloud layers. One render layer for those stratospheric clouds, one for those Cumulus clouds and one for some basic ground fog.
The snow flakes are just some Paint Effects presets.
Due to a strict deadline it was rendered with Maya software render.

Video on youtube: link

Complete clip:
fiction-films.com

[AD] CGI car animated with Craft 4wheeler and rendered with Maya

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 19:57:00 +0000

Created the car animation for this corporate image spot. The car was animated in Maya with Craft animation 4wheeler extended and rendered with mental ray.

The car was shaded with some sort of toon shader, giving it a transparent feel. The toon outlines were extruded paths along NURBS curves.

Here a progress of the shaders being used:

HD also on youtube: link

And here the full commercial clip:

HD on youtube: link

some WIP renders:

more info: http://www.fiction-films.de/

[VIDEO] Ship motion graphics - Maya ocean texture and mental ray outlines

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 16:41:00 +0000

Just a simple motion graphic created with Maya and rendered with mental ray.
CAD model was around 20 million polygons, which had to be cleaned up first. Then it was rendered with simple mental ray shaders and the outline feature.
The ocean is just the ocean texture used as a bump map on a mia_material_x

This was for the Linde Clean Technology corporate image film created by Fiction Films.

Clip also on youtube: link

Complete image film here: fiction-films.com

some rough previz renders of the ship:

Final renders:

[VIDEO] Animated Mental ray proxies and fake caustics

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 15:10:00 +0000

Just a WIP previz work done with Maya. The animations weren´t used in the end.

All those washing machines are CAD models and imported into the scene as mental ray proxies. Poly count was at around 50 million. The mental ray proxies were exported once with materials and shaders and without, so those proxies without shader could be assigned with a new material, like occlusion and depth shader.

The pond surface is just a plane with the 2D ocean texture connected as a bump into a mia_material_x.
The same connection is done for the ocean shader.

The caustics in the pond are just animated grey scale caustic textures on the pond floor and walls. Those were taken from the substance shaders in Maya.

First version:

also on youtube

2nd version:

youtube link

[PHOTOS] Classic car meeting 2012 - Oldtimertage Fürstenfeld

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:18:00 +0000

Last weekend was the annual vintage car meeting in Fürstenfeldbruck Germany, near Munich.

Took plenty of photos.

Complete gallery here: Picasa

[AD] CGI cars animated with Craft 4-wheeler and Maya for commercial

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 19:33:00 +0000

For this project , we used Maya and craft 4wheeler extended to animated the 3D cars, which were then integrated into the backplate footage. For each shots we used custom made HDRIs, which helped to light the scenes.
Light poles, trees and other objects that casted shadows were remodeled in 3D.
Was responsible for shading and lighting and did some of the car animations. Used my Xbox controller for that :)

more info on Fiction Films

Here the clip:
HD also on youtube: link

And here a previz turntable render, showing an early stage of the toon shader on the cars without textures.

Backplate is just an HDRI.

HD also on youtube: link

[AD] Some product renders created with Maya and mental ray

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:42:00 +0000

Did some CAD cleaning and 3D modeling for this product film. The Maya animation was then transferred onto animated cubes, which was done by a colleague.
Used mental ray for the renders.

Here the Product animation:

youtube link

and the complete commercial:

youtube link

More info on Fiction Films website

[PHOTOS] Goodwood Festival of Speed 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 20:07:00 +0000

Was at the Goodwood Festival of Speed last Sunday July 1st.
Highlights was a huge Lotus collection of vintage Formula 1 cars and other vehicles.
Besides the Cartier 'Style et Luxe' displayed a selection of vehicles all personally owned or used by the Queen, celebrating her Diamond Jubilee.

Took lots of photos with my old Canon Ixus 700, should invest in a new camera once.

complete gallery here: LINK

here a small selection:

[AD] Laptop render and red line integration created with Maya

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 08 Jul 2012 19:09:00 +0000

Quite an old project already.
Well did the 3D render of the laptop , as well as intergrating some of those red lines into the backplate footage.
First a short clip of the laptop render:

also on youtube : link

detail render of the keyboard:

And here the whole corporate image film, the red lines were also inserted with Maya.
Those are just flat planes extruded along curves matchmoved fitting to the footage.

youtube link: here

[VIDEO] HumanIK , Paint Effects, Motion Capture and messing around with Maya visor presets and hamburgers

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:14:00 +0000

Ah well nothing exciting really, just a very short clip of using this HumanIK rig within maya 2013 and the basketball player character from the visor.
Found this Motion capture data on the web and attached it to the HumanIK rig. Added some paint effects and used some substance shaders to texture the scene.
Nothing special, also just rendered it with hardware render 2.0, its quick. :)

also HD on youtube

[3D] Energy-saving bulb character concept created with Maya

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Wed, 02 May 2012 19:07:00 +0000

Just a very quickly modeled character concept of an energy-saving bulb and a light bulb, I created last year. Didn´t spend much time on that, thats why the elbows don´t bend properly due to poor paint weighting and very rough modeling.

Was only a WIP model.

[PHOTOS] Classic car meeting ACM "Unter der Bavaria" 2012

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 19:02:00 +0000

The Automobile club of Munich ( ACM ) held its annual meeting beneath the Bavaria statue in Munich, Germany. Unfortunately the weather wasn´t that great, but still a lot of car owners showed up.

Took plenty of photos as usual. :)

Complete gallery hosted on Picasa: link

a small selection:

[AD] Erotic font model created with Maya

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:34:00 +0000

Well created this 3d Erotic font, which was modeled in Maya. It was for a price comparison site, where also Erotic products could be evaluated.

Only uploaded the interesting part, with the 3d font itself :) The rest is anyway just this guy talking.

The whole commercial can be viewed here: http://fiction-films.com/#/commercial?id=1&hq=0

Not sure whether direct linking works. Otherwise its under Work -> Commercial ( Fiction Films )

HD also on youtube: link

First letter and test render:

Here some test renders of the 3d font with various shaders:

[AD] Maya ncloth simulation and paint effects fur for fluffy towel

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 14:51:00 +0000

Created some ncloth simulation for this product film for a Siemens spot. Its actually already quite an old project. We worked on that last year, so nothing new to be honest.

And here some test renders of some ncloth cloth and Maya paint effects with some hair brush, in order to achieve some fluffy effect. I think I first tried the fuzz paint effect, which didnt look convincing, so in the end I used some bunny fur paint effect, as far as I remember.

Those test renders then were used in another clip about stain removal ( 0:55 - 0:58 ) Quite short appearance and nothing exciting :)

It is basically a combination of displacement map, Maya paint effects fur and hair and some animated stains textures. Here some screenshots of the final footage and some closeup shots of the towel :

and here the whole clip about stain removal:

more about this clip on our Fiction Films homepage

[PHOTOS] Impressions of India - holiday pictures

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:35:00 +0000

Just a small selection of photos I took during my holiday visit in India. Was mostly traveling the North.

All in all I took 4000 photos, but I had to pick a small selection to be able to upload to picasa. Well in the gallery there are still 1000 photos :)

here the complete gallery on picasa: link

Also tracked the whole journey with Google my tracks.

here the route, ( best viewed in Google Earth ) link

[AD] BMW Alphacity - Crowded car park animated with Maya

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 21:16:00 +0000

Was a project with quite a time limit. Used Maya and the craft-4-wheeler plugin that comes with it.

Worked quite well, although sometimes it looks like as if the cars would crash. :)

HD also on youtube

Producer: Fiction Films GmbH
Director: Thomy Heinelt
Compositing: Marco Meyer , Dylan Collins, Marius Jerschke
Motion Graphics: Marius Jerschke
Rotoscoping: Daniel Rose
3D animation, rigging, shading: Thomas Lauterjung

Fiction Films GmbH

[VIDEO] Maya toon car driving test and some proxy renders with substance shaders

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:31:00 +0000

just a quick test of a toon shader rendered with mental ray outlines. Also created a parking lot and rendered it with mi render proxies to be able to handle all the geometry. All in all it was about 20 Million polygons, since I also used Maya fur for the grass.
The plants were downloaded from Autodesk seek and the ivy created with the ivy creator.

All textures were created with the substance shaders in Maya 2012.

It was just a test to implement a toon car into an environment, so its nothing final, just a test.
Also tested the capabilities of craft animation plugin for Maya.
Just messing about with it :)

We later used it in a project at Fiction Films.

Parking lot proxy render with toon car and substance shaders:

Some wireframes and the proxy geometry:

the parkinglot lamp:

grass bit and concrete bit of the parking space:

The car park as proxy geometry:

here just driving around in Maya :)

closeups of the toon shader:

[INFO] News

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 22:13:00 +0000

all images now hosted on Picasa

[INFO] News

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 22:09:00 +0000

As my current image host zooomr isnt maintained anymore and a lot of images have already been deleted by them, i have to move to a new image host.
Will update those missing images as soon as possible. Especially older posts have missing image issues.

[PHOTOS] Classic Car meeting 2011 ( Oldtimertage Fürstenfeld )

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:43:00 +0000

This weekend was the annual vintage car meeting in Fürstenfeldbruck near Munich Germany. ( Oldtimertage Fürstenfeld 2011 )

Took plenty of photos of course.

Complete gallery here: link

[AD] Cardboard character design created with Maya

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:26:00 +0000

Designed this cardboard character for commercial purposes. Did the modelling, texturing , rigging and animation.

here the clip:

and here the facial GUI controls of the rig:

also created some Lip syncing GUI , so its easier to animate the mouth shapes.

[RIG] Crazy train ride - Maya railway rigging test

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:18:00 +0000

created a very rough and sketchy train rig with Maya. This is just a test and the train behaviour is far from realistic.
Also the scaling isnt correct and the speed of the train isnt correct either, especially in curves. But then it was just for fun and a test. Nothing else.

Its more of a rollercoaster ride to be honest. :D

HD video links:

vimeo

youtube

3d models like the bullet train ICE and the bridges are from Google warehouse / Google Earth.

______

Bridges and Tunnel models:

1. Firth of Forth Bridge
2. some custom Bridge
3. Golden Gate Bridge
4. Arc de Triomphe Paris ( Tunnel entrance )
5. some custom Bridge
6. Newcastle Highlevel Bridge
7. Arc de Triomphe Paris ( Tunnel entrance )
8. Salginatobel Bridge
9. Benjamin Franklin Bridge
10. Lupu bridge China

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sound effects from:
freesound.org

music by:
Appalachian winter
The Mountains in Stone

[PHOTOS] Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 20:38:00 +0000

Last Sunday was the Festival of Speed at Goodwood. What a great event and the weather was amazing as well. Took quite a lot of photos.

Here some selection

Complete gallery here: hosted on Picasa: link

[PHOTOS] ACM Unter der Bavaria 2011 - classic car meeting

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 01 May 2011 20:57:00 +0000

Today was the annual meeting of the ACM - Automobile Club of Munich Germany, held beneath the Bavaria statue.
Took plenty of photos, of course .

Complete photo gallery is hosted on Picasa , here

[AD] Bendy bus articulation system commercial

noreply@blogger.com (Thomas Lauterjung) — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:29:00 +0000

This is a clip for a company, that specialises in articulation systems in bendy buses. It was created 2010 at Fiction Films Gmbh.

Created this Bus rig for this commercial footage.

HD clip also on youtube