Lulu Mae

MRat · March 4, 2008 05:08 AM

I'm a fan of Nina Hynes' music, I'll admit, but goddamn this video is awesome.

http://ie.youtube.com/watch?v=s3N9iHqmIV4

It's all done in 3Ds Max, believe it or not. It's amazing though. I'd swear it was 2D,

Thor · March 4, 2008 06:41 AM

Those particle effects are all definately 3D. If it's ALL 3D, those are some pretty freakin' amazing shaders on that

MRat · March 4, 2008 07:03 AM

It is indeed ALL 3D.

ZekeySpaceyLizard · March 4, 2008 09:15 AM

some neat geometric design choices in that

Zee · March 4, 2008 09:45 AM

Whoa. When I was watching that, I completely forgot to keep in mind it was 3D.

I enjoyed that. 8D

Halcion · March 4, 2008 07:03 PM

i need to see it in mesh to believe its ALL in 3d

sQueef · March 4, 2008 07:06 PM

well that was nice for SHIT character movement >

but in all honesty yes it was interesting.

rtil · March 4, 2008 08:48 PM

i'm pretty sure the 'amazing shaders' are simply animated textures

Gerkinman · March 4, 2008 11:19 PM

It would have been cool if it was more then just a tech demo. Was all rather pointless...

Thor · March 5, 2008 12:13 AM

Quote from: rtili'm pretty sure the 'amazing shaders' are simply animated textures

Amazing as in "Wow this looks hand drawn" and then I forget that I'm watching something that was done in 3D.

Up until now, I have not seen any shader on a 3D model that made me forget that I was watching 3D. The toon shader shipped with the software these days is not convincing at all of a hand drawn 2D style.

As far as the animation goes, I think it's actually really good.I don't see it so much as "Wow it's a bunch of lines and shapes," but I look at it as "How is the animator adding life to these simple figures?" Each one of those weird creatures has a personality, just look at the way they move. Animation isn't always the golden-aged cell animation style, and I haven't come upon many examples of non Hollywood/anime cartoons where there IS life in the movement. The only other guy that I can think of off the top of my head that's done this is Don Hertzfeldt, but I'm sure there's others out there

MRat · March 5, 2008 12:18 AM

It's not a tech demo, that's the official music video for that song.

monkeyscanfly · March 5, 2008 02:13 AM

Quote from: MRatIt's not a tech demo, that's the official music video for that song.

They should pay Rtil to make it o.O

MRat · March 5, 2008 02:14 AM

Rtil's stuff is not suiting to this song, I would think.

Perhaps he has tricks up his sleeve I have yet to see, however.