I’m looking for a CG artist to bring to life a stunning piece of concept art by artist Tony Treloar for my upcoming sci-fi web series, New Gods: Ideally, I’d like to see a rendering of the surfboard and sail, and possibly several seconds of animation of the board sailing into the Sun, as in the image. This is a paying gig, although the budget is tight so it’ll have to be negotiable. The goal is for this to demonstrate both your work and how well we work together. If things go well, it could lead to an offer to do Visual FX for the New Gods series, and bigger pay. Look forward to hearing from you soon, Vince
It's a pretty spectacular piece of work, no doubt about it. It makes no sense, but what the hell if it looks good.
Hell no! lol I should rephrase that. It's an interesting subject, but the amount of work involved is beyond my meagre abilities at this time. To do this justice you need to be able to do some nice cloth simulation, character animation and building, and the render times for doing stuff near a sun filling the screen would be harsh. Right now I'm doing a pretty simple planet and ship animation and each evening I knock out maybe 10 seconds of animation. That's an hour making a model I needed, a couple of hours setting up the scene and lighting, then letting it render overnight at maybe 3 minutes per frame for 300 frames. At a guess, to do a couple of minutes animation worth a damn might take me several weeks of evenings spent modelling and animating. It stops being fun real quick. I do my stuff here and there when I get time, if I have to do it as work it's going to be wanted asap.
I know what you mean. At times New Gods has proceeded at a similar pace, if not slower. Fortunately tho', it's never felt like work...