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Plankton Invasion

Vegard — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:27:42 +0000

The past few months I’ve been down in Belgium working with GRID and together with TeamTo on setting up the pipeline, rendering and effects for Joeri Christiaen‘s Plankton Invasion. Finally some of the images are ready for the small screen and will be hitting VTM in Belgium this month, Canal+ in France next month and then hopefully soon global domination! The revenge of the infinitely small is upon us, watch the trailers below.

UPDATE!: check out some full episodes in french on Canal+:
http://www.canalplus.fr/redirect_pfv.php?vid=543262
http://www.canalplus.fr/redirect_pfv.php?vid=543289
http://www.canalplus.fr/redirect_pfv.php?vid=543294

TensionMorpher for messiah:Studio!

Vegard — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 14:19:48 +0000

useful slug is pleased to present this new TensionMorpher deformer for messiah:studio. Below is a video tutorial on how to set it up. The deformer / weight tool combo uses the tension of the edges to find out if it’s being squashed or stretched, and performs a tangent space morph.

In the spirit of dare to share the deformer will be available for ~~$100~~ ~~$50~~ $20 for the first couple of weeks. Get it while it’s hot

18 messiah tips in 3d World #142

Vegard — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 09:43:00 +0000

I wrote a 5 page article with 18 tips for messiah studio for 3d World issue 142.
The tips range from beginner to advanced level, and include video tutorials as well as start and end project files.
Make sure you pick up a copy!

http://www.3dworldmag.com/2011/04/04/get-the-most-out-of-messiahstudio/

850 meters teaser

Vegard — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 18:30:44 +0000

Vegard is working closely with Joeri as technical director on this short film in production.

Learn all about it and watch the making of at: http://www.850meters.com/

Outcasts

Peet — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:35:17 +0000

Darkside Animation just wrapped on the Kudos Films’ new sci-fi-drama ‘Outcasts’! We personally worked on around 30 shots out of the 300+ that went through Darkside.

Walker

Peet — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:03:48 +0000

Walker is our new walkcycle generator, exclusively for messiah:studio.

It scales to fit any biped character. You can use any character rig but it is advisable to use AutoRig v.2 with it because the setup time is greatly reduced compared to when using custom rigs.

Walker should be used with version 3.0 of messiah and upwards.

Click here to see a feature overview video

Click here to view a silent usage demonstration video

Walker Tutorial video #1

Walker Tutorial video #2

Walk creation tutorial video

You can buy Walker for $100 by clicking the button below.

Xerxes

Peet — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:59:40 +0000

This is a model from Infinite-Realities ir-ltd.net/ that Vegard’s currently doing some little rigging and animation tests with.

Olbas Oil

Peet — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:57:15 +0000

Production company: Darkside Animation
Agency: BrayLeino
Client: Lanes Health / Olbas Oil

Modeling: Dan Barker, Garry Brown, Peet Lee, Vegard Myklebust
Rigging: Vegard Myklebust, Brian Nicolucci
Hair: Dan Barker, Peet Lee, Vegard Myklebust
Animation: Fredrik Lindbom, Mandy Mok, Vegard Myklebust, Brian Nicolucci, Toby Winder
Animatics: Garry Brown, Vegard Myklebust
Rendering: Dan Barker, Garry Brown, Peet Lee
Post: Garry Brown, Peet Lee

Fair Trading?

Vegard — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:57:06 +0000

useful slug provided technical assistance on the short film Fair Trading? by Joeri Christiaen at THURISTAR The film was the winner of the 2009 film competition organized by BeFair.be / Trade for Development Center.

Iron Maiden – The Final Frontier

Peet — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:51:57 +0000

Darkside Animation and Nick Scott Studios came together to imagine and create the music video for the new Iron Maiden track ‘The Final Frontier’.
The production cycle went over 8 weeks from concept to completion. A total of 141 shots combined live action with integrated CGI as well as full 3D animation, resulting in a complete running time of five minutes. The Darkside team worked around the clock to bring to life as never before IRON MAIDEN’s monster mascot and protector, EDDIE.
Eddie had to hold up both in far and close up shots from any angle in full HD quality, providing challenges for modelling, texture, technical, animation and render artists alike. Custom scripts and techniques were developed to add realism to Eddie’s motion and shading, and a slew of techniques were used in combination to bring him to life. Lightwave was used for the rendering and space animation & messiah:studio was used for the character animation.

Produced by: Darkside Animation & Nick Scott Studios
Director: Andrew Bishop & Nick Scott
Producer: Simon Percy
VFX Supervisors: Mark Dodwell, Simon Percy
Exec Producer: Keith Reeves, Stuart Wright, Simon Moorhead
Script: Dirk Maggs
Editor: Marina Theodotou
Live action Producer : Dan Verrier
Live action Production Manager: James Harris
Live action Director of Photography: Felix Weidemann

Concept & Storyboard Artists: Andrew Eadington, Richard Albon
Compositors: Garry Brown, Greg Cox, Ajanta Ghosh, Lucy Hare, Peet Lee, Simon Percy, Caroline Phasey, Nick Scott, Kirk Smith, Terry Wu
Character Modelers: Peet Lee & Michael Rollinson
Character Technical Director: Vegard Myklebust
Character Animators: Garry Brown, Lucy Hare, Mandy Mok, Fredrik Lindbom, Vegard Myklebust, Jon Noorlander, Toby Winder, Michael Rollinson,
Lighting & Render artists: Ben Beckett, Mark Dodwell, Greg Cox, Peet Lee, Simon Percy, Terry Wu
Matte Painting: Richard Albon
Object & Effects Animators: Ben Beckett, Andrew Bishop, Greg Cox, Mark Dodwell, Peet Lee, Simon Percy, Michael Rollinson, Kirk Smith
Shading & Texture Artists: Dan Barker, Andrew Eadington, Peet Lee, Vegard Myklebust, Caroline Phasey, Michael Rollinson, Lies Veldeman, Terry Wu
Set & Prop Modelers: Ben Beckett, Dan Barker, Garry Brown, Mark Dodwell, Peet Lee, Michael Rollinson, Kirk Smith, Lies Veldeman
Sound FX: Clifford Reeves
Trackers: Ajanta Ghosh, Toby Winder

Election 2010

Peet — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:45:32 +0000

We worked with Darkside Animtion to create animated caricatures for the historic 2010 general election. These were designed run in ITV’s super-futuristic virtual studio thingummy.

Network Rail – New Lines

Peet — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:43:33 +0000

This New Line Concept promo for Network Rail was produced in a mind-bending two weeks, from concept to completion!

Client: Pretzel Films
End Client: Network Rail
Concept & Director: Nick Scott, Nick Scott Studios
Production Company: Darkside Animation
Compositing: Richard Acton
Audio: Si Begg
Modelling: Dan Barker, Peet Lee, Mike Rollinson
Scene setup & Rendering: Dan Barker, Andrew Bishop, Greg Cox, Julian Davidson, Lucy Hare, Peet Lee, Vegard Myklebust, Simon Percy, Caroline Phasey & Mike Rollinson.
Character Rigging & Animation: Vegard Myklebust
Effects programming: Vegard Myklebust
Effects animation: Peet Lee, Vegard Myklebust, Julian Davidson, Dan Barker
Fluid simulation: Julian Davidson.

Norfolkline / DFDS Seaways

Peet — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:42:41 +0000

Series of promos we created with Darkside Animation for Chameleon Design Consultancy.

Bavik – Go Nuts

Peet — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:37:13 +0000

TV spot we made for GRID-VFX in Belgium back in 2008.

Nile TV Idents

Peet — Tue, 08 Mar 2011 23:17:37 +0000