"21 POINTS", short film, Table Tennis test

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21 POINTS - Table Tennis test
August 13, 2013


Here is the first tracked test we made for a short film that we have in production. When we made this test the most important thing we resolved is that the robot would have to be left handed if the the human hits with his right to allow us get the best angles without crossing the camera line. Alembic was a key technology to move the character to C4D from Maya. Surfacing and most UV's were done in 3D coat, rendering was done using Vray and C4D R15 Team Render across a mixed network of macs and PC's.

21 Points is going to be freaking great and we cant wait to show more soon

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21 Points - robot walk test
October 3, 2013


walk test for the robot in our film 21 Points. Sound is just a rough scratch layer, but I usually like to add a soundbed, even for tests. This test was executed while working with Ryan at the early stages of pre-production to see how his performance would work when working with an actor standing in for the robot just offscreen. Its a buddy movie so the connection between the robot and Ryan has got to be really solid. For example If we lose the sense that Ryan has actual eye contact with the robot when he is talking with him then this connection will be broken. We are working extremely hard to make this work in all shots.