This is my audition video for the MTV Engine Room competition. With only a week's notice, I quickly put together some footage and VFX. Due to time constraints, I had to cut out 2 minutes worth of footage and much VFX shots uncompleted.

My patience was really tested with my Dell Pentium 4 Processor desktop (5 years old). The rendering time frame was absurd! The first third of the video took three hours to render in After Effects (output to a 1280 X 720 quality). This was my second time using 3Ds Max, so my work flow was twice as long due to the two-day learning curve (hence the reason why much of the video was not completed). So the animation is really mediocre, but I will improve! :)

This video isn't true HD because it was originally meant for YouTube. I will upload the more polished (plus HD formatted) final footage (including additional footage, SFX, and VFX) sometime in August [2008]...those are a lot of parenthesis, haha!

Credits:
videocopilot.net
creativecow.com
Low Max 3Ds Max Character Rig
Maxo 3Ds Max Lamp Rig
Harrier 3Ds Max Model
k1n3t1c5 Motion Pictures
Sony SFX Bundle
Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man"
Trapcode Particular
Trapcode Form
Twitch Plug-in
ROOMMATES at UMD


Check out
shawnwilson.net
in PaperVision 3D...thanks to Web Design Vol.3 (Flash required)
[still in the works, but it has a funky splash page!]