2 beauties from vimeo today, check em out. Really excellent charecter animation.

^ excellent package.

A few more concept videos and rough cuts for the music video production – Narayan by the Prodigy. I’m trying to keep on theme with my original moodboard, however I’m finding more new ideas and inspirations as the days go by.

So the end result may turn out to be different, but never the less I hope it will still be an epic visual journey.

Above is a test using a Maya plugin called AudioWave to drive the rotation and scale of the objects using audio amplitude.

Took the hard steps to begin modeling a human head in Maya using the edge loop + poly method.
Here is result so far, clicky for 800 x 800 piccy.

Here is the low Poly + Smoothmesh version showing the faces

And here is the reference pic, handsome lad aint he? :p

Like your light streaks, bokeh and lens flares? Get your fix in the video below. Its a little over the top IMO but some good VFX ideas on show with very good composites, would look great on a showreel.

Back on the CG front here are some very cool 3D shorts to wet your appetite. Don’t forget to checkout my Vimeo channel for more cool vids!

Super high detail renders, amazing textures.

Evils Robots + hot girl + lasers + toon shader, whats not to like?

Very cool and simple concept, think I will steal this for my music vid using my hologram shader + animated textures.

Beautiful 3D models and renders in this short clip. Love the lighting!

Cool cyberpunk inspired video with excellent greenscreen, live action + cg and motiontracking.

Another light inspired video, this time with some nice minimal abstract music, groooovy!

Found this one after I published, :p Super Awesome CG short, I particularly like the animation and camera shots.

Made this on the weekend with Maya 2010, custom shaders with HUD projections. The way the projections are setup means it can be animated using flat 2d images.
This is inspired by the Holodeck in Avatar and also Final Fantasy Spirits Within.

Heres the HD Video on Youtube.

Also on my Vimeo channel.

The animation was rendered in Maya Software with surprisingly fast speed. What I am discovering is that Maya software is really good for effects driven renders, lots of color, lighting information can be rendered quickly. However Mental Ray is great for photo realistic renders and generating advanced lighting environments.

The animation was comped in Autodesk Toxik / Composite, with only a zdepth blur applied using a luma pass.

Any questions or feedback, feel free to add to comments.

Video by Alexander Lehmann
http://www.alexanderlehmann.net

Need I say more? Fantastic piece of music with an awesome CG video. Heres hoping my Prodigy video will turn out half as nice