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There used to be a small but beautiful blue rock somewhere within the vast void of the universe. Life appeared on its crust relatively fast and as usual through out the evolution, one of the species dominated the rest, by forming complex societies to overcome its primordial survival needs. The dominant inhabitants progressed technologically, excelled in many different fields within their closed society and managed to build establishments on every corner of the planet's terrain. But during the process of solving these initial problems and building their dream utopia, more problems would arise faster than before, making their daily lives gradually more and more complicated. The time came when their overcomplicated society demanded so much devotion, that they stopped questioning other, more fundamental issues. It was then, when they even stopped looking up the sky. The sky that used to inspire and guide them will now bring them disaster and Erebus.

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  • Stef 1 year ago
    Fantastic!!
    I posted this on motiongraphics.nu.
    Hope you're fine with that.
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  • Stef 1 year ago
    And the colours! I can watch this over and over. Very nice job!!
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  • Tony Zagoraios plus 1 year ago
    Respect....
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  • Ioannis Cherouvim 1 year ago
    superb
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  • mat stevens 1 year ago
    wow - you have such a great style - kind of reminds me of the transforms movie (the cartoon not the live action)... love the bullet time shots at the end... very very cool.
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  • benp 1 year ago
    That's a beautiful look you've used. Great colours.
    I love the low-poly triangles in the shockwave!
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  • Dimitris Christou 1 year ago
    Κέντημα! Amazing job George! You know I'm a big fan of your style. Bravo!
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  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Thanks a lot guys! I really appreciate your comments.
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  • Bravo Giorgos, bravo Nic!
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  • Blake Whitman staff 1 year ago
    this is insane. wow.
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  • beautiful
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  • Vj Robson Victor 1 year ago
    even perfect words could be tell what I felt watching this piece of art.

    DOPE.
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  • Dan Valentine plus 1 year ago
    So mezmerising. Great work, excellent sound.
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  • visuality77 1 year ago
    BoOoOoM!!
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  • Daniel Gustafsson plus 1 year ago
    Awesome visuals! Well done! :)
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  • lab 1 year ago
    Hey nice to see your creativeness out in force gorgeous G
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  • The Film Artist plus 1 year ago
    Amazing!
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  • sattanaathan 1 year ago
    amazing....how the hell did you guys do this actually??
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  • Christina King 1 year ago
    Thought-provoking
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  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Thank you all for your feedback!

    sattanaathan... it's pure 3D animation, with a lot of 2D compositing work. There are loads of details I can get into, but I'll need loads of time and space to explain everything. I'll be more than happy to answer a more specific question if you have.
    =]
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  • Brice Clocher 1 year ago
    Awesome image and pace.
    I also noticed that the sound was very good (and this seems quite seldom in animation videos I've seen).
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  • DESIGNSPOTTER TV 1 year ago
    Jiassou Giorgos,

    kai ago posted it on our website:
    designspotter.com/dstvshow/2010/03/EREBUS-by-Georgios-Cherouvim-.html

    Keep up and xeretismous apo colonia
    Ioanna
  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Γεια σου Ιωάννα,
    Σε ευχαριστώ πολύ για την αναδημοσίευση!
    =]
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  • Rod MacGregor 1 year ago
    Impressive 3d animation which for some reason had a seemingly simple appearance, however that was probably to its benefit,also, well done to the sound person.
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  • Colin Berry 1 year ago
    You kicked ass on this.. Seriously.
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  • Babak Sarraf 1 year ago
    Awesome. I love the shot where the horizon elevates to suddenly show a massive red menace. Well done!
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  • Watermoore Imagery 1 year ago
    This really demonstrates the importance of camera work. With your very minimalistic low poly models you think its a a previz test at firs,t but your use of Sound, speed ramping and cinematography made this a very very tense scene. I love it.!
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  • thpriest 1 year ago
    great stuff. the sound really made it work
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  • Superstyle 01 1 year ago
    Man that's Brilliant!! I bet you'd get ALOT more congrats if people didn't have to sign in, but anyway it's...Fantastic!!!
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  • guilherme trindade 1 year ago
    Love the polygonal style!
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  • HYPEMUCH 1 year ago
    AMAZING piece of animation!

    I have posted it here: hypemuch.com
  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Thanks for the publicity dude!
    =]
  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    cool site. How come you don't have an RSS feed?
  • HYPEMUCH 1 year ago
    no worries dude!! heres our RSS hypemuch.com/feed/
  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Great! Added to my inspiration stream!
    =]
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  • Mattia Coti 1 year ago
    Wonderful! :)
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  • Neil O'Donoghue 1 year ago
    That's going in the inspiration folder on my computer! Great work! Could you give me some specifics on how the sound design? How did you make all those amazing sfx and ambiance sounds? Thanks!
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  • zero-13 plus 1 year ago
    An exceptional byproduct of dedication and hard work.
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  • Stanislav Molski 1 year ago
    Φίλε Γιώργο, δεν φαντάζεσαι την πλάκα που έπαθα όταν είδα Ελληνική ανάρτηση. Πολύ δουλεμένη εργασία!!! Χαίρομαι και το έχω περηφάνια να βλέπω ανάμεσα σε όλα τα άλλα και κάτι δικό μας. Πολύ θα ήθελα να σε γνωρίσω από κοντά για μια ξενάγηση σε όλες αυτές τις καταπληκτικές τεχνικές που χρησιμοποίησες. Καλή συνέχεια!!!!!
  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Σε ευχαριστώ πολύ φίλε μου. Είμαι πάντα διαθέσιμος για ερωτήσεις και απαντήσεις.
  • Stanislav Molski 1 year ago
    Γιώργο να είσαι σίγουρος ότι τη διάθεση της πρόσκλησης σου θα την αξιοποιήσω. Όταν ανέβω Ελλάδα θα σε ψάξω, να είσαι σίγουρος! Καλό κουράγιο και καλή δύναμη με ότι ωραίο κι αν καταπιάνεσαι!
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  • Maribeth Ratajczyk 1 year ago
    Nice transitions. Wonderful combination with "eye candy" visuals and "entertaining" sound! (keep that relationship goin'!!) Congrats on a beautiful piece of work.
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  • pique plus 1 year ago
    Amazing
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  • Rodolfo Revilla 1 year ago
    Extraordinario! Más!
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  • Lefteris Mantikos 1 year ago
    Congratulations on this amazing animation! I like the ch3.gr also. Keep up the good work!
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  • Guigo 1 year ago
    Wow, what a different CGI, i wish more stuff like this would be used these days
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  • iamkeir 1 year ago
    That is absolutely mesmerising, and the way it's cut tells the story beautifully. A masterpiece. Only complaint is the sound is slightly distorted? Perhaps by design :)
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  • beautiful.

    love the choice of camera moves . . . and the color, the music . . . just really beautiful.

    congrats on making a memorable and amazing piece!

    JJ
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  • Carl Collins plus 1 year ago
    Excellent! Picture and sound worked together perfectly.
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  • polyplano 1 year ago
    bravo giorgara! poly wraio to videaki! respect! exeis pouthena to collision se wallpaper 1920 wide? tha to ithela monima gia fonto!! ;) checkare k to band mou echidna.gr
  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Όχι αυτή την στιγμή δεν έχω διαθέσιμες εικόνες στο internet. Μπορείς να κατεβάσεις την έκδοση του βίντεο σε 1080 από την σελίδα μου και να κάνεις screenshot.

    Αν και δεν ακούω metal, η μπάντα σου ακούγεται super.
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  • nic birmingham 1 year ago
    Hey everyone! thanks for all the great comments.
    @ Neil - sound is a mostly Reason4 malestrom synth but also reason4 tricky sampler triggered by arpegiator thru tight delay. and then add some samples and a lot of timestretching...
    @ iamKeir - the surface of the meteor has a lot of distortion going on by design, and actually yeah listening to it again there is a fair bit of distortion to roughen it up a touch but it shouldn't sound too crazy.
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  • Rob Pieke 1 year ago
    Wow ... you must have worked somewhere super-wicked-awesome to learn how to do something like that. ;)

    Nicely done Georgios!
  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Thanks Rob. Indeed I learned a lot from the place and the people I worked with!
    =]
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  • Andrzej Rudz 1 year ago
    very nice man
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  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Thank you very much for all your comments guys. We really appreciate them!
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  • Ajit Sarode 1 year ago
    Really beautiful & simple looks, just love the colors....
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  • scott 1 year ago
    Soundscape superb, works so well with the image, really well done, reminded me of parts of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
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  • mygue 1 year ago
    Spectacular. Congrats!
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  • bajaa 1 year ago
    wow...very good..!!
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  • Kurt Yun-Doyle 1 year ago
    Incredible graphics and the sound is perfect. Interesting bkgd. Concept as well.
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  • Matteo DiGiovanni 1 year ago
    Wow! This is just gorgeous. Really stunning.

    Do you think it would be possible to get a 1920x1200 wallpaper of the point where the two planets are colliding? Or the biggest you can make it if you don't have anything in that resolution.
  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Since you are the second one to ask. I'll prepare and upload one. I'll publish the link once ready.
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  • SolidSnake 1 year ago
    WOW That's was amazing man keep it up and want to see more Really

    also can u help me with the plug-in or program you used to make the glow effects as i am searching for a nice one to add to my workflow ?

    and aslo the destruction part what destruction method you used ?

    and thank u ..
  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Nuke was used for compositing. Glows were done with loads of blurs on top of the image. If you mean the lens flares though , those were real elements. I tried a couple of plug ins, but in the end it was just easier, faster and more fun to shoot real lens flares and add them on top in combination with some textures.

    3D is all in Maya. In a few sentences, the collision was done with with layering various animations techniques. Key animation for the main transform, deformers for the squash, a procedural wave done with soft body particle expressions and on top another soft body with actual dynamics. All these retimed in 3d before rendering.

    I'll be writing a more technical document about the production of the animation, which I'll post here soon. So stay tuned.


    Thanks for your comment!
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  • Jon Keyo 1 year ago
    Simply Epic. Great Sound.
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  • Thibaut Breton 1 year ago
    Magnifique ! Very beautiful :)
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  • Ludo Rami 1 year ago
    super graphic!
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  • Daniel Burke 1 year ago
    Deceptively intriguing! Sound kept me thru the low poly stuff and then the efx were smooth and powerful and intriguing! Spectacular sound design always makes things look better. Sweet.
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  • Stef 1 year ago
    Posted this video also on regionofinterest.com.
    This is our new & fresh social network & video portfolio's website for filmmakers. It would be great if you would join in.
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  • Beautiful ! : )
    That's really intense ! sound is perfect too =}
    Great Job ! : )
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  • erwan manchec 1 year ago
    just awesome, its now on beware-blog.com :)
  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Thanks for the publicity!
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  • Josh Adler 1 year ago
    Excellent artist statement/story and incredible imagery.
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  • Alex Papp 1 year ago
    Polu oraia douleia,mpravo..!!
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  • Gabe Askew plus 1 year ago
    Amazing work. You need more time off to make babies like this!
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  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Thank you for your post!
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  • Slowgolde 1 year ago
    Brilliant stuff George, great to see you're still making time for your own ideas. The photography section on your site has expanded hugely since I last checked it out, what camera are you using- was a lot of it taken on your bike ride? Oh and ace 2010 showreel- some really impressive projects. Take it easy, Dave
  • Georgios Cherouvim 1 year ago
    Thank you very much Dave!
    All the photos on ch3.gr are with a film SLR. Photos of the bike trip can be found at blog.ch3.gr which were taken with a small digital camera.

    How are things with you? Are you still in the Uk, or back on the slopes?
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  • rokkogrol 1 year ago
    awesome job, i especially like the low vector style you used. Your sound guy did a great job too.
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  • Antonis Fylladitis 1 year ago
    Poly kali i douleia sou Giwrgo!!Mprabo!!Makari na blepoume syxna tetoies doulies!
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  • krulè 1 year ago
    Love the way the world(s) are designed. And the beginning is done very cool with the fast twisting world :)
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  • Moles Merlo 1 year ago
    Great! I love the collision!
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  • smail_web 1 year ago
    stuns...

    a visual pleasure...

    1:44 -> 1:55 Great piece...

    I red an interview of you on cgsociety weeks ago, and today I had the pleasure to watch your animation.

    My demo: vimeo.com/7620678

    .
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  • Aldo Valladares 1 year ago
    wow man, how you can deal with that extraordinary work?
    Nice!! very very nice!
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  • Alex Mamontov plus 11 months ago
    freaking awesome. Which 3d programm did you use?
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  • Hitchet 6 months ago
    epic.
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