One day matsta contacted me about a animation project a customer of offered him. A remake of a existing animation for AMC Cookware in South Africa. The point was that this commercial don't look good enough for the client, to dark and simply not real enough. Matsta showed and told the Agency The Artery about Indigo and they wanted to give it a try!
Since he has no experience in doing Indigo animations, but remembered my Toon Car animation, he asked if I could do this.
long story short, after a skype conference with The Artery and matsta, I agreed to give it a try.
HERE is the final post processed video.
I get the Pot Model and some preview renderings of the "new look" they wanted to archive. After camera matching the old animation in C4D and lighting up the stage, I did some test renderings that showed the quality Indigo could give here.
I did previews with Indigo 2 to reach showable results faster and rendered thefinal movie with 1.1.18.
rendering this animation noiseless was impossible, with my resources. I had some friends online that helped me via network rendering (small scene file + working in PAL resolution helped here!). I also get a Q6600 borrowed from a friend and bought a Phenom II 945 system with 4x3ghz.
after 2 weeks I had the animation done with 1500 spp (less for the first scene, more for the last)
This noisy material was denoised using "Neat Video"! Slow animations + Temporal Noise filter and the great Neat Video Algo was a win here, see for yourself:
I know this animation is not world shaking, and I also don't get rich by doing it... anyway I would like Ono (& Ben) for this piece of software, from my payment I'll buy a Indigo 2 lifetime license and can hopefully render the next clip a lot faster
Also a big big thanks for matsta to pass this job over to me!!!
