Back in 2002 I was a teenage kid fantasizing about making movies and these crazy shots blew my mind. 18 years later I randomly downloaded Blender during the pandemic, and decided to learn it from scratch. I still keep coming here to watch this incredible video: as an aspiring VFX artist I find it truly impressive and inspiring. Cheers from Italy!
Like the other commenters, I'm an avid CG artist and watching this I see surprisingly simple geometry but superb texture work. That's the magic spice of VFX work, especially working with slower hardware like they were back in 2002.
That was exactly what defined my workflow as a 3d artist, I saw this clip back in its time, and I understood that my workflow would be as much low poly as possible, while textures and illumination do the job to achieve realism. And never extremely hi poly props just like 3d scan, just subdivided exactly where it's needed, like that cardboard box, just subdivided with a few pooygon cuts just to bend the cardboard edges, while the rest of the box geometry remains as really low poly. I work that way today, modeling in 3dsmax, rendering with Chaos Vantage with an rtx3070, and nobody understand how my 8 giga of vram is more than enough to make huge complex scenes, and massive exteriors. And all thank to this clip ❤❤❤ I mean, my workflow is like I'm still in 2002, so my rtx3070 really flies.
Was impressed 20 ears ago when first time saw it. Very realistic indoor lightning for 2000-2002. As I know the finish job was done with MentalRay. Is this real global illum or baked textures/photos with occlusion?...very interesting....
Back in 2002 I was a teenage kid fantasizing about making movies and these crazy shots blew my mind. 18 years later I randomly downloaded Blender during the pandemic, and decided to learn it from scratch. I still keep coming here to watch this incredible video: as an aspiring VFX artist I find it truly impressive and inspiring. Cheers from Italy!
This breakdown was my inspiration to start with 3dsmax in 2003. I'm still so impressed with the CGI here.
Like the other commenters, I'm an avid CG artist and watching this I see surprisingly simple geometry but superb texture work. That's the magic spice of VFX work, especially working with slower hardware like they were back in 2002.
That was exactly what defined my workflow as a 3d artist, I saw this clip back in its time, and I understood that my workflow would be as much low poly as possible, while textures and illumination do the job to achieve realism.
And never extremely hi poly props just like 3d scan, just subdivided exactly where it's needed, like that cardboard box, just subdivided with a few pooygon cuts just to bend the cardboard edges, while the rest of the box geometry remains as really low poly.
I work that way today, modeling in 3dsmax, rendering with Chaos Vantage with an rtx3070, and nobody understand how my 8 giga of vram is more than enough to make huge complex scenes, and massive exteriors.
And all thank to this clip ❤❤❤
I mean, my workflow is like I'm still in 2002, so my rtx3070 really flies.
Was impressed 20 ears ago when first time saw it. Very realistic indoor lightning for 2000-2002. As I know the finish job was done with MentalRay. Is this real global illum or baked textures/photos with occlusion?...very interesting....
They used all kinds of techniques, from global illumination, DMP patches on top, all kinds of projections, you name it.
And this movie is from 2002