Keeping up with the latest motion graphics tech is a necessity for my job as a 3D Artist at Citizen Pictures. After spending some time in training with Cinema 4D master, Tim Clapham last week, I tried to put some of this knowledge to work. The result is this simple animation that took less than 30 minutes to create, something that normally would have been much more complicated to create. Render time was also short, taking just 18 minutes to render in HD. This project used 1,706 super man balls consisting of 36,756 polygons. This is just one example of the very powerful tools inside of Maxon's MoGraph 2, not to mention, no key frames were needed for this animation.
Working on this kind of thing gets me thinking about random stuff like the fact that there were over 900 people working on the Special FX for Avatar. Pandora required over a petabyte, (1,000,000 gigabytes) of digital storage, and some people believe it is a real place. On our planet we have to deal with the moon slowly floating away at 1.6 inches a year and in the distant future, a day will be 960 hours long, that will suck. The Milky Way galaxy is whirling around rapidly, spinning our sun and all its other
buddy stars at 62.1371192237 million miles per hour. And a tablespoon of neutron star would weight about 10 billion tons. Just in case you were wondering...
Super Balls Man from Shawn Astrom on Vimeo.
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