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Exception #1440194847
Shot in Wroclaw, Poland.
Actually a teaser for the short in that location.
https://vimeo.com/136975195/

 O0 :beer:

Thanks! Glad you liked it. That's just a teaser before going full pace. We made this shot rock today with stedicam, rollerblades and A7s with Shogun recorder. Full version is going to have 2:30 length.

Wow, that is quite an animation.  Very good quality and it makes it realistic with the 'walking camera' 
Something scary is just growing and moving through this ? museum.   I'm afraid I would leave quietly from the side entrance ;)
Really well done!    :beer:

Exception #1440433338
With a score by Antony Hequet​
Shot in Funkhaus, Berlin.

https://vimeo.com/137158091
 

very cool how you match the shadow and the floor with the orinal lighting!

nice! finally! someone is documenting random fractal alien incursions  O0

me thinks something is missing from the credits like maybe FractalForums.com?

Thanks! In the vimeo description:

In the next one I'll add it on the movie.  :fiery:

just watched from the link 88) so I missed that :beer:

aside: I note the that error text gets embedded in the compiled shader binary, this may contribute to odd behaviour, if, while compiling, the errors make the size of the binary grow beyond the limit. it might be a good idea to nail them down.

select menu item Edit->Shader Asm extracts all text from the compiled binary

edit: i meant the warnings not the errors

You guys better check this out!
https://vimeo.com/138609965

And a BTS/Making of thread is here:
http://www.fractalforums.com/fragmentarium/making-of-the-short-film-exception-1440284226/

 :o that family was almost consumed by the giant purple people eater  :alien:

nice!

 :beer:

I took your suggestion and re-rendering. It eats children. That makes a better story.

It keeps getting better and better :beer: :beer: :beer:

Would like to see more shots with fractal shadow moving along smooth floor or wall. The shadow interplay makes it appear more real imho.

What you have achieved so far is impressive. Look forward to more from you. :)



BTW OpenCL in Mandelbulber v2 is yet to be implemented.  I love the speed of Mandelbulber v1.21 OpenCL, but as Buddhi and Zebastian are the only two programmers currently working on the project, I have to be patient ( I hate being patient.) LOL

lol, you are the patient

Never a truer word said in jest.LOL,  The way Buddhi and Zebastian had tonurse me through learning to operate QT Creator, github and C++, I am definitely the patient. LOL

Thanks!
Unfortunately shadows are quite tricky. For that short video I have already built a set of matte objects and a matte material to mask out the thing (pillars).
The matte object I have allows taking the shadows, but - as long as it's fairly simple to cast shadows on the floor and maybe a wall, it's getting tricker with more complicated objects.
That particular movie has a huge modern bench on the floor which makes it impossible (in practice) to take that approach.

In normal VFX pipelines, the way you'd normally integrate it is that you roughly model the scene (so add floors, walls, a rough model of the bench etc…) and just cast shadow on this geometry.
Not a big deal if you have a normal modelling tools, but impossible when you work with DE-based renderers and distance fields.

To make it more complicated, there are tracking imperfections and distortion of the backplate caused by the lens.
Again - something that is normally quite easy to correct for, but not in a 'primitive' environment for rendering fractals.

The only other workaround I see would be to render the fractal in any GLSLish shader and do all the compositing elsewhere.
But that would require to model a rough approximation of the fractal in a standard 3D modelling software to cast shadows.
(Or develop a pipeline to export voxels, convert to mesh etc…).

All would be doable on a hollywood movie, but not necessarily with the amount of time I plan on spending on these projects.

nice...