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Riveurs enjienrd

Ronny — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 11:59:00 +0000

In case you have trouble pronouncing that title: It’s a phonetical version of ‘reverse engineered’. This clip is intense, I swear. It’s full of detail. It’s full of agressive cuts, lots of post editing and color correction. I love the overexposure from the sky. Really helps the illusion of making it look real.
I don’t really know if the author is trying to tell a story here but I was fully taken in from the first second. I’m totally intrigued. What I especially love about this piece is it engages with your subconsciousness. You see so much stuff for only fractions of seconds. A lot of those cuts appear and disappear so fast, you don’t actually get the time to realize you see them but you know you did. You don’t get the time to take in the shots and form an idea about what you see. Your brain just gets overloaded with information without driving you totally nuts. Oh and on that note: If you’re susceptible to epileptic seizures… You might wanna hold off this one. For everyone else: Enjoy!

Creating worlds

Ronny — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 18:26:09 +0000

Actually it’s more like ‘creating cities’… A few days ago, Nick Campbell finally released the much awaited GSG City Kit. This kit is an Xpresso powered rig for Cinema4D that allows you to build very high detail cities in minutes. Check out this link if you wish to see a demo about it. Nick wrote about this for months and I’ve been waiting to get my hands on this ever since the first time back in September! So when it came out, I immediately got it and checked it out. Yesterday I decided to make a desktop background using the kit and this is what I came up with.

Download this background

1920 x 1200 version: Click
Dual 1920 x 1200: LEFT and RIGHT

The City Kit is absolutely amazing! It’s so powerful and the amount of detail is immense. Pretty unbelievable! If you were wondering wether to get it or not: I can assure you, you won’t regret it if you do
I had a great time setting up the city the way I liked it and then start making photos from any angle that I fancied (there’s more to come ). In the end I spent most of the time in Photoshop making it look less generated and more realistic. I’m quite pleased with the result.

Do you like it? Or do you think it looks like absolute crap? You don’t like the pink tones? Would you like your pet’s name spelled in the clouds? Does it need a blimp (I’m looking at you, Davy )? Let me know what you think about it! I’d love to hear your feedback/suggestions on this.

Have a nice day!

I can create

Ronny — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 10:34:44 +0000

Finally my demoreel has emerged. Only took me like forever. I’ll talk a bit about the ups and downs during the project and about some of my findings with the Cinema4D net render server.
For now: Just sit back and enjoy (and please do let me know what you like or don’t like)!

MTV Idents from around the world

Ronny — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 03:50:06 +0000

Ever since I first touched Cinema4D back in September, my life changed. I used to enjoy Flash development because it enabled me to do cool shit in only a few steps. However, since I first got started in Cinema4D, I lost every single bit of interest in Flash, Actionscript or code-based projects and experiments. I started watching lots and lots of videos on Vimeo and I ended up watching tons of MTV idents.

MTV?

Yes, MTV: they got so many cool idents and other clips. It’s almost unbelievable. In order to be able to keep track of which ones I liked most, I started saving a textfile on my desktop with links to all of them and as it turns out: There’s not just 4-5 of them. There’s a gazillion of them out there! I then thought: I should find the coolest of them and post them here… sooo: Here goes!

(These are not all official MTV Idents. There’s a few in between which seem to be personal projects or experiments)

Oh, and I totally dugg this one! Very creative!

If you liked this and you want more: Don’t worry. This is only the tip of the iceberg… There’s a lot more of this on the interwebs!
Feel free to suggest other ones in the comments. I’ll add them to the post

Domino Day

Ronny — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 23:31:07 +0000

Yes, I actually went there. Too bad I’m actually having so much fun… Otherwise I might’ve spared you from this one.

Shape Shifting

Ronny — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:53:39 +0000

A few days ago I posted a few renders of a deformed thing and I said I was rendering an animation featuring the same weird deformed thing. Yesterday that very render finished. I wasn’t really pleased with the result so I changed a few things and started to render again.

This is what came out this morning at 6:46AM

Rock that cinema

Ronny — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:50:40 +0000

For those of you not following me on Twitter: I’ve been playing around with Cinema 4D for the past couple of days. Those who do follow me can’t have overlooked my joyful tweets about how much I adore 3D and Cinema 4D.

These are my very first (real) steps I’m taking in 3D. I’m having more fun than ever. I could tell you all about it but my guess is nobody cares, so let’s just skip that and jump right into the business: 3 little tests/experiments…

Falling balls

This was my first render of a video. I wanted to see how much was involved to actually export the video and how much could go wrong on first try. As it turns out: Easy peasy (and nothing went wrong)!

Throwing cube

The video above took my iMac about 10 hours of rendering. I figured giving the Cinema4D Net Renderer a try couldn’t be a bad idea. I hooked up my old Dell XPS, my MacBook and got going: 3 Core2Duo powered machines ready to render another little toy scene (don’t mind the little glitch halfway )

Abstract shapes

The above took about 3 hours and 30 minutes to render about 450 frames. Yea, my mind was blown. That’s incredible! Seen as all 3 my machines are almost equally powerful, rendertimes go down by 66%!
Now I knew what the power of this Net Render thing was I figured I should give it a real job. For starters I let it render these 1920 x 1200 images. Took about 2 hours to render all of them.

There’s more of those on my Flickr page. Let me know if you like any of them, what you would’ve done differently and where I went wrong. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.

Oh and by the way: While you are reading this (assuming you are reading this not too long after I published it ) I should be rendering something pretty cool, so watch this space for updates!

Unreality

Ronny — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:56:53 +0000

A few weeks ago school started again. One of the new classes I got is ‘Audio Visual Media Production’. That’s a fancy name for ‘After Effects and stuff’. Only 4 weeks into the academic year I felt like taking a leap… Following the crazy idea of “If you can think it, you can make it“, I took my camcorder, recorded some footage, got back to my computer and started fighting my clumsiness in After Effects. Only a few hours later I finished a first version of my experiment. I spent today continuing and finishing this experiment.

The result is pretty much what I expected (although I am pretty embarrassed about the horrible arm-in-front-of-logo-disaster. Feel free to enlighten me on how to do this without making it look this bad ). Enough words, check it out!

This is my first shot at making something look good in After Effects. If there’s anything on your mind, let me know. I could use advice and feedback

UPDATE: I changed the way the arm is put over the logo when turning it around. It looks a bit better, but still far from perfect.

Flash CS4 doesn’t like your FLA files!

Ronny — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:23:41 +0000

I’ve been an early adopter of Adobe’s new Creative Suite which has been announced in October. At first glance everything seemed okay, and I really really REALLY enjoyed working with the new Flash IDE. The thing I liked the most were the panels which aren’t animated anymore. The panels still disappear when you click outside the IDE, but they disappear instantly. No laggy fading away.

Another cool thing is the workspace switcher. I never switched workspaces before CS4 because of the overhead: You had to go to ‘Window’ then go back down to ‘Workspaces’, and then you got to choose you workspace… If you already specified any…
Flash CS4 comes with a few standard workspaces and a very handy button, located in the main screen of Flash. Changing workspaces is really only one click away!

Next thing that drew my attention was the 3D capabilities which are now built-in. I have always been intrested in 3D, but I never really got to play with it. So I hoped Flash would allow me some playing around with it.
I must say: The built-in feature is pretty cool. You can actually draw 2D objects and then move them around in a 3D space. The bad thing? The 2D object will stay a 2D object. You can’t change the ‘depth’ of an object. You can only alter the width and the height of the object. That’s a turndown for me. Nonetheless: it’s cool!

But…I’ve been working with Flash CS4 for a while now, and I did have a very annoying problem.
I was working on a typography assignment for school, when Flash crashed. Happily I save all of my progress so nothing was really lost. However when I started Flash again, and opened my FLA in progress, Flash wouldn’t be very responsive anymore. Opening a MovieClip turned out to take almost 20 seconds (including spinning beachballs). Clicking on a frame and previewing the timeline seemed to be even more of a problem.

First thing to do, was to close Flash CS4 and open up Flash CS3, and check out that same FLA file. No problems. Everything went just fine. So I closed CS3, opened up CS4 again, thinking it would be a one-time issue with CS4. But I was wrong. CS4 was dead slow again…
I closed my FLA, and created a new one… And all of a sudden everything went fine again… Like what the f#ck? (And no: when I opened my FLA after that again, it sucked again. Same goes for other FLA files.)

What the heck is going on? I am working in Flash CS3 again for now, but I’ld love to work with CS4 again.

I mean: the panels still disappearing when you click outside of Flash is annoying, but it doesn’t hold you back from building cool stuff. And even though the 3D features in Flash are very basic: It doesn’t keep me from doing my work. But Flash not being able to work fluently with saved FLA files, is a serious issue!

Anyone having similar issues, or knows a way of fixing this? Or is this a very annoying bug, that Adobe needs to take care of, before we (or at least I) can go on working with Flash CS4?