Сamomile-Tale

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The Story

Camomile is a planet. It was born from the cosmic chaos. The caterpillars became the first inhabitants of the camomile. They hatched from raisins that fell on the planet with rain of meteors.



Industrious caterpillars brought the life on the Camomile-planet. Among uninhabited vastness of petals and stems, they created a beautiful world and dressed it with the gemstones and stars.



Life never left a camomile. Even when the gloomy dark clouds sank and planet inhabitants were frightened.



On the contrary, once the first beam of the farthest star touched the petals, life has blossomed with new forces ...



The caterpillars have turned into the dreamlike princesses-butterflies.
They decorate a fantastic camomile till this day...



Finally i say thanks to all people who help me finish this work )))
It was hard work but we did it!
I've prepared the video, about how we made the movie.
So, if you interested- here it is!

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The camomile is our planet which we create and guarded. The Camomile - is our house. The planet will perish without us, only we can rescue it.

finished in November, 2010

Sea Devils (closing)

During a year or more we worked on the TV series "Morskie Dyavoli" (Sea Devils).

It would take me many days and nights to describe all the video effects that we made. That is why I won't show you all of them but only few shots that left an indelible imprint in my memory.

Explosion.

I love to create the natural phenomenons, and the explosion is one of them. Clouds, water stream, fire - all of them have unique structure. Every one of them is unlike to other. And this soleness wrote the chronicle of the nature...



Frames:


..another shot-



finished in fall, 2010
site of the customer : lesta.ru

Firing

Here is the series of Sea Devils (http://www.kinopoisk.ru/film/280918/) where I was responsible for firing work.





finished in summer, 2010
customer: Lesta studio

Sea Devils (Explosion)

The seiner



Debris on the water.
Although two or three burning pieces were filming I decided to add some more to complete the composition.



finished in Winter, 2009
site of the customer: http://lesta.ru/

Chronicles of a blue screen

During the last 3 years I have participated in several promotional projects. Now I want to show you two of them, the most interesting I guess...

I

It was a team project and I was responsible for the compositing work. I have keyed the
material, composed it with the 3D background and colorcorrected it.

The idea was to put the hero into the fantastic world which is change with every step.

The heroine was filmed on the blue screen

...and here is the composited shot.


Here I show you the most complex shot. The heroine and the audience were filmed separately and then composited together with the backgroung.

The heroine on the blue screen


The people look after the heroine. As i have said before, they shooted separately to make them more convenient to manipulate or color-correction, regardless of main hero


Composited frame with the hero walking on the stage and the people watching after her.


To illustrate my work I have prepared the making off. Here it is.




II

Fighters



site of the customer lesta.ru
finished in winter, 2010

Demoreel (2007-09)

Hi, I have finaly done it.
Here is only the best works of mine.

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finished in november, 2009

Car Explosion

...it was complex and laborious work includes both sophisticated technology and a lot of time with the sleepless nights and 7 day work weeks. The task was to create the full 3D explosion of the jeep. All stages including drama and story of the explosion, prepering 3D models, simulating and calculating of the fluids ... and at last — compose all together -- all the work fell on me.





I supposed the idea was to shoot the real explosion... but than something changed and they decided to make whole computer graphic explosion.

I collected plenty of reference and tutorial material and started ...

I resimulated explosion several times until achieved the desired result of the fire behaviour. For the record — I observe all the interaction with the enviroment objects. Finally i got the whole pure 100% detailed 3D explosion. You could circled it with the camera, to render from any point you like, to fly throug it and to render with any shader.

The next stage was to render out the simulated material into the passes for next using them in compose . After a little research I outlined the necessary passes and rended them.



I prepared the 3D car model and drawing enviroment. I projected the mattepainting on 3D objects. Also I prepared debris, obstacles, smoke and dust.

The compositing the final stage wasn't any easier than previous
stages. It was a lot of layers of explosion, fire, smoke, debris, 3D enviroment, spakles, glasses fragments and additional footage materials. All of them in HD resolution.

Eventually i managed all the stages ... and i thought it was my small victory.





Here is making off posted belong.



finished in August, 2009

Bomb in glovebox

How looks like car explosion from inside the car saloon?
Nobody knows. The real shooting is dangerous even if to protect the camera from the fire. It was hard to find any of reference footage or video for this task. I had nothing else but to rely mainly on my imagination.

The explosion are not suppoused to be very big. It is more like small BOOM with some terrible consequences ... mostly for the car.



Trying to understand that i prepare the mattepainting of the burned car, and 3d model of the saloon.



To simulate the real explosion i demolished the corpus, broke away the pads and some elements of car saloon, added smoke and shaked the car body.

Also I prepared the debris flying and collide with objects inside the car.
Here you can see how the final shot looks.



And the video part of this with a bit of making off.



finished in July, 2009

Car Axident

..the car crashing, view from inside.

Almost everything was done in compose, exept the glass fragments flying from the cracked door window. As always i represent here the source material of the car shooting on the green screen



and the source material of the car run into the camera.




The task was to create the impact to simulate the true car axident.
Here is some debris and fragments of the glass i rendered out from 3d.




...and the composed frames:



finished in marth, 2009

Overflow A. D.

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finished in september, 2009

Taras Bulba

"Fatherland is something that soul is looking for, that dearer to her entire.."

Taras Bulba (alternative title Zaporizhian Sich) is a historical drama film, based on the novel of the same title by Nikolai Gogol. The movie has been filmed in different locations in Ukraine such as Zaporizhia, Khotyn and Kamianets-Podilskyi as well as in Poland. The release date is the April 2, 2009, to coinciding with Gogol’s bicentennial.

This is the most interesting feature film project in which I have taken part.

As far back as i was a pupil in the Theoretic Lyceum i carefully studied the literary works of Gogol. In those days, he impressed me a kind of mysticism and vividness of images.
Taras Bulba — one of the greatest novel -- is a story about Ukraine's Cossack warriors and their campaign to --defend their lands from the advancing Polish armies.

Here i present a few shots i worked on. My duties included adding the people on the background, adding the blood in fight scenes, some clean up works and other...

Cossacks ride over the Ukraina
Cossacks rush into the battle furiosly.



Andrew is beating against the Cossacks
The most tragic and contradictory scene, where Andrii betrayed cossacks in the name of polish princess. The shot shows him side by side with the Poles fighting against the cossacks.



Cossack warriors in the front of polish fortress
Preparing for the battle.


Fight till death
There is no turning back. No escape. No surrender. No mercy.


Blood challenge



Blood splattering previews


imdb page: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1242457/
site of the customer: http://www.lesta.ru/

..the tales of the falling snow

A million feathers falling down,
A million stars that touch the ground,
So many secrets to be found
Amid the falling snow.

... another chronicle in my blog. Wet snow that falls on the asphalt leaving only mud.
The challenge was to make the snow falling and add it to the original footage.




Some others shots from the film.
Also i prepared the snow lying on the asphalt




a bit of making off ))