Concept Smoke Dies Irae

Limit c

2010-11-28T18:04:00.017+02:00

I created this animation for the VisualArt Speed Challenge, didn't win, but it was a fun and sometimes frustranting project to work on.
Project duration: 8 weeks, from storyboard to final edit (half-assed). Used lots of stock objects for the junkyard. It's got loads of issues and I had to cut it short, 'cause of the short time frame. Render time per frame: 4-8 mins on a quad.
Big thanks to all the dudes who helped with the rendering, couldn't have done it without their machines.

I personally recommend watching it under the influence of cannabinoids. If only the jury had known...

Shhhhh!

2009-06-01T23:33:00.001+03:00

We Can Do This

2009-05-13T21:30:00.013+03:00

Desert Dust

2009-04-07T20:06:00.006+03:00

Desert Dust

Slow Moe

2009-04-07T14:28:00.001+03:00

Slow Moe from Concept Smoke on Vimeo.

Collision_cam

2008-11-04T10:43:00.002+02:00

Start Up

2008-10-16T19:09:00.005+03:00

New city, no internet conection, no nothing... thug life.

New test scenes, related to absolutly nothing and edited by Mr Martin Scorsese himself. I promise next time I'll have something more worth watching.

UNIT 984

2008-09-27T18:31:00.003+03:00

7.0 L Wing Aero Cars

2008-09-25T20:53:00.007+03:00

The 1969 Dodge Charger Daytona, driven by Oldman, a retired drill sergeant from Georgia. Only 503 Charger Datytonas we're built. Until 1971 it was the fastest production car, with a top speed of 200mph.

Number 503

2008-09-23T01:02:00.002+03:00

Tractor Motion Capture

2008-09-19T04:10:00.011+03:00

Here it is, the Rx8 brought to life, or should I call him RED, the pot smoking russian teenager. Sorry for the low quality, render time's a bitch and the incomplete highway, it's still in construction.

So what I did was, I got my grandfathers 50hp tractor, with the plow still on for extra rear motion. I went to a nearby runway, placed some cameras around and spent a full day working the tractor.After all that, I got my Rx8 model and using the footage shot previously and the state of the art EyeBall motion capture system, I animated the Rx8 and some cameras around it.

Enjoy!

Fast Communist Red

2008-09-17T19:00:00.003+03:00

The Rx8 redone from scratch, as Beethoven so well crushes, last one had some flaws.

Clay Rx8

2008-09-16T22:54:00.001+03:00

Overpass

2008-08-18T21:13:00.003+03:00

Metal Flake

2008-08-17T17:58:00.011+03:00

Here it is! Ladies and gents, give it up for Camaro, also known as V8 in the upcoming "Concept Smoke" short. More to come.

Camaro_T1_360 from Concept Smoke on Vimeo.

4 a.m. poly

2008-08-15T21:07:00.005+03:00

Do you know where your editable poly is at 4 a.m.?
Did I say posting every day... I meant every 2 days.
Here we are, second main car poly modeled(long live smoothing groups), The 2010 Camaro. Went a bit over the 100.000 tris budged. Next up texturing, rigging and moving along.

It's Back!

2008-08-13T16:02:00.004+03:00

FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 2008 - Now that's a long time!
Anyways, as you can see the Blog Poster is different (if you don't notice it, you must be color blind or something). And that's not all, we have a SCRIPT... at least something resembling one, and we had time to figure out some stuff and what not(4 months, come on... what did we do, written it in Hebrew).

For the rest of the month I shall be posting new stuff at least once a day, starting today.
There you go, see you tomorrow.
Over and out!

SlideA

2008-04-04T10:04:00.005+03:00

First actual animation, related to nothing.Practice, practice and more practice.No HD this time...
Quicktime 3mb download
Youtube-If I were you, I'd see the quicktime!

2D MBChaos

2008-04-02T16:37:00.005+03:00

First shot is composited, not a final version, lot's of stuff needs to be redone.Check out the HD quality.
HD 720p Quicktime
Youtube- don't

Ze Cam

2008-03-25T11:35:00.006+02:00

Playing with "ze" lighting and camera shots.Obzerve ze ztagard ztagging.
Quicktime-7mb-download
Youtube-just dont click it

unLimited Supply

2008-03-19T14:24:00.006+02:00

Due to the shortage of funds, our unlimited supply of MountainDew is LIMITED, soon to be extinct. So as a last resort we ask the fine folks at PepsiCo to spare a couple MountainDew truck loads, in return showing on screen The Official Con-S MountainDew Bus for a full 24frame second.

Pack Attack

2008-03-08T13:12:00.007+02:00

First pack of 10 cars textured, not as cool as we wanted but we're getting there.First Previs is so close.

Black Q7 Down

2008-03-05T14:33:00.005+02:00

The first traffic car textured, modeled by the new dude, i think he did a good job.It has about 30.000 tris.

Deep Royal Blue HD

2008-02-28T09:36:00.010+02:00

Deep Royal Blue, now that's a color,cool huh?... cause i made that up.Now get ready for the HD experience.
Download Quicktime HD 9.2mb
Youtube-too crappy,not recomended

Mustang_360

2008-02-22T21:25:00.004+02:00

Quicktime-4.7mb-800x340
Youtube-too lowres

So...I smacked some color on to it.Progress is slow and steady.

In the meanwhile...

2008-02-11T20:48:00.000+02:00

Standard Unit

2008-01-24T20:30:00.000+02:00

Saleen S281
There will be hundreds of police units just like this one, waiting to be shattered to bits.
The Rx8 is on it's way.

TestRun

2008-01-04T22:23:00.000+02:00

For a couple of days I've been working on doing a general rig for all the cars, scripting and linking what could have been a painstaking animation process, but now all we got to do is wiggle around the arrow underneath the car and the rest will follow it.

For the thing you see below I just animated the Yposition... pretty cool yes...no.

HighrezDownload-Divx-4.9mb

Twisted Metal

2007-12-27T16:07:00.000+02:00

Just crashing small cars on a daily basis... so cool.

High quality-Quicktime 7-800x340-1,48mb
Low quality-youtube

Havok Crash!

2007-12-23T10:40:00.000+02:00

Had some fun yesterday experimenting with reactor in max, it was awesome. Anyways i did something finally , aka cardboard mazda 2 VS concrete silverado.If Newton saw it he would die a second time.
High quality-Quicktime 7-800x340-1,47mb
Low quality-youtube

Splash!

2007-12-21T11:56:00.000+02:00

One of the cop cars is going to drive straight into these barrels and......stop, but still can't you just hear the barrels collapsing under pressure, the caps flying through the air and the sizzling water. If not watch the Matrix Reloaded highway chase, the main reference for the highway.

HD vs SD

2007-12-18T14:46:00.000+02:00

Now were in a dilemma, should we do it SD-800x340, stereo or HD-1280x544, 5.1 channels. HD meaning doubling the render times but it's got great quality.

Highway-test 1

2007-12-16T14:57:00.000+02:00

After a few tryouts we got to a pretty good highway and still working on it, we've done about 2km from 6km in total.

Traffic Cars- 1st pack

2007-12-16T14:06:00.000+02:00

The first of many traffic cars.We have set these aside and started modeling the Main Cars, for now the Saleen S281 and the Mazda Rx8.
P.S.: 1 traffic car- around 25.000 polys(faces)
1 main car- around 100.000 polys(faces)