APEX - VFS Demoreel by Mischa Kolbe

[@opsdaddy]

Terrific reel! Awe-inspiring, in fact. Cheers!

[@twosomesaga]

Jeff McCaskill Thanks so much, Jeff! Super glad people like the outcome :)

[@MCDMaker]

To someone that is about to start going to a VFX School, which one of these two 'profiles' would you recommend choosing from, either digital compositing for 3d visualization. Digital compositing includes; Rotoscoping and plate preparation Compositing I Compsiting II On set supervision DC 3D Visualization includes; 3D animation 3D I 3D II On set supervision 3D Thanks! :D

[@twosomesaga]

+Viktor Hallén Oh holy sh#*%! I absolutely did not see your comment x.x I suppose I am too late now - and I hope you are happy however you chose :) Anyways... It is such a funny question to ask, but I can relate 100%. I would have loved to have someone tell me "you should do this". But in the end I guess nobody can take that decision off of you... I ask the same question probably most people asked you: What interests you more? What can you see yourself pour hours and hours of your life into? :) Personally, I couldn't decide for any stream we had to chose from (Modeling, Animation, VFX) so my approach was to start at the "beginning" and push it as far through the VFX-pipeline as possible... So I started with modeling, then animated and in the end composited. But I was prepared and willing to stop anywhere along this journey. In the end I was happy to have made it all the way through, but I think if you want to do a bit of everything, you should be prepared to "fail" in the eyes of others (never easy to admit you didn't make your goal). In that case I think it is important that you take as much out of the journey as possible, so it won't ever be a "failure" in the first place - no matter how "far" you come. And one more thing I like to do in 50:50-decisions (in case you didn't decide/start yet ;)) Flip a coin: Heads or tails. But what counts isn't what the coin tells you in the end, but the thing you were secretly wishing for when the coin was in the air ;) For me that worked a surprising amount of times.. Once again: Sorry for my VERY belated answer...

[@MCDMaker]

+Sparkeli Hey man! I just wanna say thank you so much for making such a long respond, no worry about it being so late! It was a clear decision for me to choose 3D once we started introducing the difference between the two programs. So far I had a blast! Again, thanks a lot for all the tips and the detailed response!

[@twosomesaga]

+Viktor Hallén you are more than welcome! Glad to hear you are having a great time... And that it became pretty clear what you want to do :) Hope that joy will last and make you rock your time there!

[@amphibiland]

Bravo, this is incredible!

[@pablitogtgamer]

really cool!!!!

[@twosomesaga]

pablito GT Yay, glad it comes across in a cool way!

[@RandyMarshthesinger]

Awesome!

[@jonathanpatrick2258]

How long did it take to render? And If you had to reproduce it from scratch how long would it take?

[@twosomesaga]

Jonathan Patrick Rendering was done over the last two months. Hard to quantify though: I could render on multiple computers at the same time and a lot of times during the night. Most of the frames took around 10-20min with all the layers. 120sec*24fps*20min = 960h on a single PC (veeery rough estimate :D). To reproduce it I guess 3-3.5months would work. Maybe even less. Depends on how you mean "reproduce". If it doesn't include gathering ideas etc. So for just the "work-work"-part of it you could take maybe 1 month off that estimate.

[@jonathanpatrick2258]

Sparkeli awesome. very god work!

fantastic!

[@imgestudyo4399]

vey good

[@muirocky6499]

0:05 HEFE ZOPF I´ts German Food

[@twosomesaga]

Haha, so isses! Bestes Brot der Welt! :P

[@immunex6651]

Hey, can i use this? i have really wanted to make a bike channel

[@twosomesaga]

Ciao ImmuneX, first of all: Thanks for liking my reel that much that you'd want to use it! Thing is (and I'm sure you're aware of that, since you're subscribed to crow90MTB, too) that this is already being used on a channel and I think it would be awkward to have it on multiple ones... I hope you know what I mean and wish to see more MTB-channels soon ;)

[@immunex6651]

So would that be a yes or a know? it's not like my channel would be popular.Only my friends would watch it

[@immunex6651]

I'm going to use it. i don't mean to be snatching it up this quick, but i won't have a big channel. good youtube luck! thx

[@immunex6651]

I don't feel good on just taking your animation so is there a animation software you recommend? But i will post the animation with my video and give you the link. if you want me took take out the animation i will. and i will give you credit in the description too. is that ok?

[@twosomesaga]

Ciao ImmuneX, couple of things: - If you ask someone for permission and then just take it anyways it's somewhat of a nice gesture but pretty rude in the end (because it was a no but you didn't even wait for a reply) - If your channel is for your friends only then why even bother putting my animation in? - Since this is the internet you probably already downloaded my video, so no way I can stop you from doing your thing. I am mostly advising not to dilute your/crow90MTBs appearance. If your channel gets big (who knows in advance..) it gets weird. - On your question: I'm currently using Maya and I like it. Like all software it has its downsides here and there but in general it works very, very well. Worked with 3DsMax and Cinema4D before, both programs work very well, too. Never got to like Blender though ;P If I had to recommend a starting software it would be Cinema4D. You now know my take on it (which is that I wouldn't do it) and with that I'll leave the decision up to you. Cheers!