I’ve been working with UK street artist Ronzo to animate his character designs for German company aka-aki mobile location networking game.

aka-aki are developing the application and got Ronzo on board to design the characters. I worked with Ronzo to develop and render the 3D for the game and also with aka-aki to produce 3d for the video. It’s great to be involved with people producing great stuff, and anyway it’s my first iphone title.

Dimitar has been hard at work capturing a typical day in the studio with time lapse photography. We’ve edited this to remove some of the boring parts (work) and more of the fun stuff (table football and a Friday after work beer).  Shot with a 5DmkII EF 16-35mm at ten second intervals.

Here is the short aerial camera video that we (the meshroom) completed for the Foster and Partners Sofia masterplan competition this year. The job was completed in 3DStudio Max and VRay and initially rendered as still images at 8K pixels wide. We rendered them this large as they were going to be printed at an obscenely large scale. My colleague Dimitar was in Sofia when the exhibition was on and had a chance to see the final images printed out this size. The sunset image is shown at the end of the video.

I’m posting this video which was completed quite a while ago now, back during the development of the Foster Yatch.This was completed so that Yacht Plus could use it in their show at the Monaco boat show in Monte Carlo, France.

All the work was created in 3Ds Max and rendered in Vray using Dreamscape.  The post production was carried out in Combustion and the editing in Premiere. That’s enough technical jargon for now, you get the idea.

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And re-edited.

This is a short video showing the changes that take place during the post production of a rendering before it is finished. The renders that we create are of a very high standard, but we will usually enhance them using photoshop to get that extra touch. Many special effects such as volume lighting can be created in 3D at the cost of render time, but to add such an effect in photoshop or by using render effects and layers is very straight forward.