BBH is live

After a few intense months from everyone at Sennep, BBH website is finally live !
I had some fun with the globe and sheep animations, especially with the R&D part.
Technically, pretty much everyone I knew was invited: Maya, Houdini, After Effects, MEL, Illustrator Javascript, Flash, JSFL, Python, Lightwave, Blender.

Some clever mix of 3D and video was used for the sheep animations.
For the globe, I did some 3D modeling in Lightwave for the main buildings, mixed with procedurally painted cities in Houdini - a total of 100,000 buildings, enough detail to do some moving image work with - as well as some fluids and particles R&D for the animated blobs.

I also started the development of a vector rendering engine written in MEL, which writes layered Postscript files directly from Maya. The features so far are animation ( frames exported as layers ), and backface culling. I'm still working on the Z-sorting.

Seymour Powell

Just finished that not too long ago at Sennep, Seymour Powell is a UK based product design agency. Sleek design by Lorenzo and flash build by Oli, and fullscreen 3D intro by myself. A bit of Global Illumination and Final Gathering in MentalRay going on there, and big resolution too: 1850 pixels wide.

Realtime 3D textured plane rendering in Flash using Maya animation

I am working on a flash website that involves animating a pile of cards using Rigid Body Dynamics in Maya. Considering the amount of the animation and the number of cards, rendering as PNG sequences wasn't a viable option.

To save a lot of file size and painful frame by frame hand animations, I combined a MEL script that project a 3D point into a 2D space and a image distortion class found in the Sandy engine.
The result is a simple text file generated from Maya and then read into flash. The images on each cards are rendered in realtime using 4 points distortion (the faces are actually made out of 8 triangles for better display ).

I have also been working on a very simple OBJ file importer in Processing which is a lot more simple than the one done by Tatsuya SAITO . I will post the sources of these two very soon.

CK on FWA

Checkland Kindleysides has been selected "site of the day" on the Favorite Website Awards for the 25 of August.

Checkland Kindleysides

Paper, 3D, sounds, fluid animations, and good projects: Checkland Kindleysides is a pure pleasure for the eyes and ears . We all worked really hard on this here at Sennep. I was involved in the 3D, the paper sounds, and some ActionScript Debugging. Enjoy :)

Papervision : realtime 3D in Flash ( AS3 )

Some very nice and fluid realtime 3d demos in flash ( at the bottom of the page )