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Money reel

Björn Benckert

Björn Benckert

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Here is what we call our money reel... Basically it's a potpuri before and afters.

The edit is work in progress, so please tell me what clips are weak and should be replaced. And no it's not an copyright infringement, it's a tribute :)


Edit new link to updated reel: https://vimeo.com/103799428

 
What clips are weak? Are you kidding? I see nothing but perfection!

Edit: Actually the Mammoth walk cycle can be improved. Some secondary motion and more attention to the weight. A very heavy animal does not move like that. I'm sure though you know that. I have never seen a perfect animation of an animal.
 
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This is one of the coolest vfx reels I've seen. Great work.
 
Lakis Amarantithis said:
What clips are weak? Are you kidding? I see nothing but perfection!

Edit: Actually the Mammoth walk cycle can be improved. Some secondary motion and more attention to the weight. A very heavy animal does not move like that. I'm sure though you know that. I have never seen a perfect animation of an animal.
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I very much agree about the physics that went into the mammoth animation. It was a tricky one... I as always, blame the client :) They wanted a galloping mammoth, I tried to explain elephants do never do that they only walk very fast, never less than 2 legs touching the ground... the clients only reply:-Björn this is not an elephant it's a mammoth nobody seen how a Mammoth runs....

Then when looking at raging elephants for reference on youtube the quick walking that they do looks even more stupid. It looks like footage of a slow walking elephants speed up. So the decision was made to do it as the client wanted for once but, Yes not too happy about the result. But considering we did it from start to finish with only two guys working I think it's quite a piece, but again excuses does not really fly when it comes to sales pitches so possibly I can cut out the part where he moves a bit jerky so it's not showing to much. Lol.

I'm very glad you pointed it out.

Also thanks every one for you very kind comments. But we are far from finished with this and it's to me too messy and need to have some longer sequences and better structure. So try to be more evil and point out what needs to go instead :)

To me the beginning with the moco/ikea stuff with the kid cross cut to the animatic is weak.
And the Becel logo thing in the grass needs to go, plain ugly.
And the following Moco miniature with the burning house needs a behind the scene moving take to make sense.
And a lot of other stuff needs to go.

also need to put on more CG creatures, which means I need to dig around more in the archives to try to find the stuff. A few server meltdowns and webpage crashes during the years does not help. Lol.
 
Björn Benckert;1401786 The edit is work in progress said:
Hey Bjorn I worked in advertising for a number of years and my main comment wold be the reel has great content but it's much too long. Can you create a 3 minute or under reel? That's the magic question.
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Lakis Amarantithis said:
What clips are weak? Are you kidding? I see nothing but perfection!

Edit: Actually the Mammoth walk cycle can be improved. Some secondary motion and more attention to the weight. A very heavy animal does not move like that. I'm sure though you know that. I have never seen a perfect animation of an animal.
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Have you watched "Life of Pi? Perfection in Animal animation
 
Alan Maxwell said:
Hey Bjorn I worked in advertising for a number of years and my main comment wold be the reel has great content but it's much too long. Can you create a 3 minute or under reel? That's the magic question.
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Yes it's very long but this is just that... the long splitscreen reel. We got a 45second reel aswell that is due to be updated that is not before and after but just nice vfx shots so thos is basically for the times when anybody asks for more or can be uset as reference in pitches and such. Then we give cues to specific clips thats relevant for the pitch so then the lenght is not so important.

But possibly we make a short version of it as well.

here is the updated before and after edit:

http://www.syndicate.se/before-after/


and other reels to compliment it:

https://vimeo.com/103799428

Edit updated again, almost happy now, still some shots I need to swap.
 
Now all reels are done, I think I like this one the best. We now have had the milo for ten years and sadly I have been really bad at keeping copies of all the stuff we done with so this is actually a small fraction of what our beloved steal horse has actually gone trough. Quite a nostalgic trip when I looked it all trough, strange enough I remember every shoot like it was yesturday. :)

https://vimeo.com/104394162
 
Thats it! I'm declaring this weekend Pink Floyd weekend. Time to re listen to a few albums. :)

battistella
 
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