May 17th
Monday
If you have not seen this video, you have been hiding under a rock for the past few months. I am not going to talk about the artistic side of his video because there is a great article on Motionographer with interviews from Patrick and some screen grabs of his storyboards and general creative workflow.
What I am going to talk about is how you can make an effect like that, using voxels. A voxel (volumetric pixel) is a volume element, representing a value on a regular grid in three dimensional space (Wikipedia). There is a preset out on the interwebs for c4d written by Robert Leger that lets you break apart a model into voxels while maintaining the shape of the model. The original pixels animation used a script written in c++ and animated in Maya.
you can download the preset [here]
read Robert Leger’s blog post about his pluging [here]
view a tutorial about the plugin [here]
Original Pixels Animation if you did infact spend the last few weeks under a rock.
New York invasion by 8-bits creatures !
PIXELS is Patrick Jean’ latest short film, shot on location in New York.
Written, directed by : Patrick Jean
Director of Photograhy : Matias Boucard
SFX by Patrick Jean and guests
Produced by One More Production
