“See What's Possible” Challenge

One Man Show by imago

Submitted by imago

Backstory

One Man Show is based on several ideas we've been kicking around for a while. It is an experiment in creating realistic environment using the most basic elements available ... Directed, Photographed, Designed, Animated and Sound-edited by Quba Michalski.

Tags

3d, animation, ghost, house, imago, man, michalski, one, Particles, q3c, quba, show, simulation, stop-motion

Video Specs

# of Votes
19 Votes
# of Views 3403
Software Used Adobe Photoshop CS3, Adobe Illustrator CS3, Adobe After Effects CS3, (plugins: Trapcode Particular, Knoll Light Factory, ReelSmart Motion Blur)
Hardware Used Intel Core Quad PC, Wacom Intuos Tablet
Technique The grass field is built with a particle system seeded by a standard Photoshop "Dune Grass" library brush. The single brush sprite was duplicated several hundred thousand times with varying size and color using Trapcode Particular. :: The building is a composite of several dozen wall and detail photographs taken around Istanbul. :: The main character animation was created by photographing our actor 128 times, importing the images as a sequence and adding morphing motion blur in post.

Commentary

  • binesh said (8 months ago):

    Great work...!

  • mumbot said (8 months ago):

    nice!!

  • mariabrzozowska said (9 months ago):

    I like this one very much. ;)

  • imago said (9 months ago):

    Since the edit is now enabled, I moved the video to revver.

  • platypus said (9 months ago):

    Nice job.

  • imago said (9 months ago):

    Heh, the "meth guy" is my friend Alex and he says he's been clean for a while :) I wanted to add a bit of life to the otherwise pretty technical environment. It may be a dream of the main character, or maybe he is a UFO visitor that comes in the box... Not really sure. I usually shoot that kind of stuff on video/film, but I wanted to experiment a bit.

  • scooticery said (9 months ago):

    conceptually, it made a good amount of sense, until it ended on some meth-tweaker guy, then i was lost.

  • Ravel said (9 months ago):

    Stunning!

  • imago said (9 months ago):

    Thank you Admin - I find Google Video's quality insufficient as well, and as for revver - after 3 hrs wait for the review I just got impatient :)

  • _RiK_ said (9 months ago):

    Pretty cool dude!

  • CutandPaste Admin said (9 months ago):

    Hey imago - you can also use Google Video or Revver if you want better image quality.

  • imago said (9 months ago):

    The compression at YouTube is plain dreadful. I urge you to watch this video in much better quality at Vimeo website: http://www.vimeo.com/755668