I’m finishing a little software I started few weeks ago to manage our farm at Monologue, it’s always a pain to shutdown/reboot/or trying to access a specific computer on the farm. It’s still in development I might add some functions, I’m actually trying to understand how this one could “talk” to backburner.
This is a tiny maxscript I did to create a classic black and white football ball. Warning this is for close up render, so the resulted mesh is heavy (18.000 poly).
Download (3.5kb maxscript file)
Rework of my Tim Roth model. Started sculpting in Mudbox, then unwrapped the lowest iteration in 3dsmax. Textured in Photoshop and rendered in Mental Ray. Hair with max hair and fur. Using mental ray sss skin and compositing in After Effects.
I decided to make a new actionscript 3.0 mp3 player (since the old one was AS2.0 and a lot heavier 60kb), I tried to keep it as simple as possible without fancy animation except maybe for the spectrum at the bottom right corner. It’s 20kb and features:
Changing the appearance is really simple and takes few minutes to setup (once graphics and main design are done of course) by modifying/editing movieclips on stage. Have a look at the popup mp3player version which keeps the same graphics but with a wider interface.
This was a little test to see how fast I could make a simple kick off sequence with cheats/tricks and get a decent result.
The background stadium is a picture, I added confetti particles falling in front of the crowd to give some life to the background. I also made some photo camera flashes flashing randomly into the crowd. The whole background has a strong depth of field to keep the viewer’s attention on the grass and the kick off part.
The grass was made with a displacement map on a plane and the part that was the most time consuming of this little sequence was modeling the ball ( I though it was really easier ). Then I finally added a photo of a real football player leg and animated it to realize the kick off animation.
The whole sequence took approximately 3 hours to be realized from the start to the final compositing.
Here is the final video:
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