Studio 106H - 3D Graphics and Experiments

Mitch Scott's Cobra base is now finished. Here is the final test render. Now I need to get on the ball and finish up my base.

Hopefully you guys remember the Transportable Tactical Battle Platform, my favorite base as a kid. Shouldn't take too much longer to finish and hologramify

Mitch Scott's Terrordrome is almost complete.

Our bad guys will soon have a place to uh... plot evil?

Very early pic of the Terror Drome (not Terror Troll) courtesy of Mitch "terrortroll.com" Scott.

A few of the vehicles we are using for the battle.

Armadillo, HISS, Trubble Bubble by Greg Marcus Sky Hawk by James McCurry Night Raven by Alex Brown

Quick test file of an explosion using James McCurry's model. Animation by Alex Brown.

The other day at Full Sail, Kyle Cooper came to speak. He is a world renowned motionographer who works on sequences for films and tv.  (look up opening credits for Se7en, Spider-man 1, 2, 3 for examples) His company also did the holograms for Iron Man 1 and 2. This of course led to many student questions about how to create 3D renders of holograms.

It didn't take us too long to figure out how to create the holograms. (specifically it didn't take James McCurry too long) So we threw together a few test renders.

Like this old HISS model I had laying around:

I also wanted to see what it looked like composted into some footage, so this happened:

Each of us began testing various techniques and it became apparent that we had the seeds of a cool project on our hands.

So, our foray into hologram rendering has led to a short film with 2 people battling Starcraft-style using GI Joe and Cobra vehicles. The film will be combination of video footage and toy size 3D graphics battling it out on a air hockey sized table. think the holographic chess set in Star Wars meets Iron Man-style graphics meets Starcraft. (or so we hope) Here are some of the vehicles being modeled.