First Sigma Cinematic Complete

posted on May 2nd, 2011, 2:17 am

After about 3 months I manged to finish up the first rendered cinematic in Sigma:




Here we are introduced to the Sov character known as Broker.
The scene was made, animated, and rendered in Maya 2011. Took about 3 months and is approximately 4000 frames (24 fps). I now understand why companies hire large teams to make cinematics...

posted on May 2nd, 2011, 2:19 am

Very impressive work 

posted on May 2nd, 2011, 2:32 am

Impressive visuals indeed, however it's hard to get an idea of what's happening in the cinematic. I know Sigma is a large structure (mobile or not I don't know), so Broker could be trapped there and collapse in the end.

What's going on? 

posted on May 2nd, 2011, 2:48 am

What's going on?   :sweatdrop:

To sum it up one of Broker's drones was damaged beyond repair, and she gets upset over it at the end. 

posted on May 2nd, 2011, 3:24 am

It looks really great but I don't understand it

posted on May 2nd, 2011, 3:27 am

Awesome work.  I know personally how hard it is to animate in Maya.  Did you use bones for the animation?  

posted on May 2nd, 2011, 4:24 am

Maybe you could hire some artists from TUNisia on the cheap.

You've got incredible vision, man.  Well done.

posted on May 2nd, 2011, 5:05 am

@fa11out
Hopefully it will make more sense in context of the mod. This particular segment does not take place until well into it so I guess it makes little sense even if one knows background on the character.

@Overlord/Zeich
I make my rigs in Maya, though I think they are called joints in Maya and bones in 3DS. This particular model has both IK and FK settings though I prefer to use just IK in my models.

@Mal
I always wondered why game companies spent so much money to have huge ginormous teams work on just the cinematics... now I know after these past three months  . I'd love to be able to just hire people that could do all the cinematics and other things while I just work on all the technical aspects, I'm just not sure where to find them or the money to pay them. Maybe one day though...

posted on May 22nd, 2011, 5:24 pm

great work TUN very impressive

posted on May 22nd, 2011, 6:52 pm

How long did it take you to render?