Pioneer Corn 2009
Here’s another spot for Pioneer that was finished early July, and has recently started airing.
I animated the “Standability” section and the final hero shot of the Corn Bin building and transforming into the coffee mug. One of my co-workers figured out a efficient way to change rotation direction on the cubes using mel scripting and custom attributes. All you would need to do is translate it in a direction and it would rotate 90 degrees per grid unit. Without this the project would not have been possible within the deadline, since each cube basically needed to be individually animated.
For example, my workflow for the corn bin was to animate one cube or a row of cubes, copy, paste, offset timing, followed by manual refinement of each cube based on where the camera was. Particles, dynamic sims, etc were just not giving us the result needed, so we went with the most straight forward approach. It was a lot of grunt work, but a good learning experience for pipelining / animation efficiency.
Pixel Farm Credits
CG Modeling + Rigging + Lighting + Compositing
Tom Doeden
Rich Haesemeyer
Chad Retrum
Eric Schulist
Animation
Rich Haesemeyer
Chad Retrum
Joe Russo
Eric Schulist
Paul Wilson
Transfer + Color
Dave Sweet