OT : A Monster In Paris

[Jeremie Passerin]

Hey list,

 

Just to let you know that the first trailer of A Monster in Paris is finally out. (in French)

The production got delayed many time but here it is ! I worked on that movie 3 years ago.

Modeling, Rigging, Animation, Fx... done in Softimage. I don't know about lighting... Halim ? Was it Softimage too ? It was supposed to be XSI/Mental ray when I left but I don't know about today...

http://www.catsuka.com/player.php?id=un_monstre_a_paris_bande_annonce

Congratulation to all the team !

Jeremie

[Rob Wuijster]

I think Peter Boeykens also can answer some of those questions..

Rob

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[Morten Bartholdy]

Looks really good - congrats to the team!

/MB

> Hey list,
>
> Just to let you know that the first trailer of *A Monster in Paris* is

> finally out. (in French)
> The production got delayed many time but here it is ! I worked on that
> movie
> 3 years ago.
>
> Modeling, Rigging, Animation, Fx... done in Softimage. I don't know about
> lighting... Halim ? Was it Softimage too ? It was supposed to be
> XSI/Mental
> ray when I left but I don't know about today...
>
> http://www.catsuka.com/player.php?id=un_monstre_a_paris_bande_annonce
>
> Congratulation to all the team !
>
> Jeremie
>

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[Ben Houston]

It's beautiful work. :-)
-ben

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[Halim Negadi]

Yes Jeremie, all lighting was done in Softimage|MR. A blind lighting pipeline, rebuilt final layout scenes based on xml files, automated generation of tons of passes and auto generated nuke files to do the lighting in comp. Neat stuff despite having to work blind in Softimage. Some scenes were so heavy that any MR preview attempt lead most of the times to a "failed to save sequence before system failure". Despite that, xsi's great automation capabilities helped us to get it done that way without so much pain.

[Jeremie Passerin]

Cool ! So that's a 100% Softimage feature film... we don't see so many of them ! ;-)

[Jo Plaete]

Not 100%, 95%, except lots of ICE there was some 3dsmax (fumefx/krakaroa) & realflow involved in FX.

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[Halim Negadi]

Damn! and nuke makes it going down to 93%. We should have used the FXTree instead :)

[Aloys Baillet]

Nice work guys!

Glad to finally see it coming together!

Aloys

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[Octavian Ureche]

Thumbs up for the solid work guys. It's been a while since i've seen
an all xsi production.
Hope it does well at the box office.

Octav

[Sandy Sutherland]

We are also finishing up an all XSI/Softimage Movie - called Zambezia -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWOyZaBDA6s

Starting the next one - also to be done in Softimage, we are currently
evaluating another renderer, who shall remain nameless, but was part of
the Terminator Movies!!! :-P

S.

[Rob Wuijster]

What! Wait!!! Skynet's a renderer now???? ;-P

Rob Wuijster
E ro...@casema.nl

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[Octavian Ureche]

i always knew xdugef would become a renderer one day.

[Juhani Karlsson]

Don`t worry. It dosen`t have network rendering yet!
- Juhani

2011/6/15 Octavian Ureche <okt...@gmail.com>

[Sandy Sutherland]

LOL - maybe it is - maybe it is one big render farm!!

S.

[Marc-Andre Carbonneau]

Wow, félicitations a tous ceux qui ont travaillé sur ce film! J’ai bien hâte de le voir.

 

Has that french flavor we love so much. J

 

MAC

[Christopher Tedin]

Wasn't that what happened in The Matrix too? We will all become nodes in a giant render farm... Churning out our own reality... Or maybe that's what's happening now.

Anyone see artifacts? Look around. Did I just see that cat before? Instance?

[peter boeykens]

To be honest, the amount of nuke work was MUCH more than 2%

For lighting, I'd say about half of the work was in Nuke.

 

Animation, modeling, layout, texturing, shading was done by the French studio Pumpkin/Bibofilms (also known from French Roast) - all on Softimage.

( except some very early work in M*y&.)

 

Lighting/compositing/FX/Matte painting was done by Belgian studio Walking the Dog - using Softimage, Mental Ray, Nuke, Deadline, Photoshop.

Next to Softimage, FX also used max, fumefx, krakatoa and realflow (Jo Plaete was FX Lead/sup - kudos!)

We had some great people from Pumpkin helping us out, such as Sylvain Audi, Sebastien Fernandez, Stefano Januzzo and Halim Negadi of course (hi there!) 

We also have a stereo department preparing the stereoscopy - which in turn is 

being finished by another French studio, using inhouse software.

Since its not on their website I wont say more.

 

Without wanting to minimize the wonderful tools that were made for the movie - the main software was used "out of the box".

Most custom tools were for pipeline and automation.

If proof was needed that Softimage is suited for a complete feature animation - this is it.

 

 

I don’t think it was posted here yet - the poster for the movie has also been made public:

http://www.recentmovieposters.com/2011/06/first-official-poster-for-luc-besson.html

 

[peter boeykens]

But for those who find the French touch a bit too much, the original edit is actually English.

But given the cast I would expect the French dub to be rather good.

 

J'espere que ca ne t'enleve pas l'envie d'aller le voir

 

 

 

[Halim Negadi]

At last Peter, you show up! I was expecting a faster reaction when I wrote that we lost 2% using nuke :)

Very early work done in M*y& was only the first teaser when the core team was busy setting up the pipeline and specially the rigging tools.

[Steffen Dünner]

Ah! I was just about to ask this question, because the lipsync "looks" very english ;)

Lovely work there, congrats to all who worked on it!

Cheers

Steffen

2011/6/15 peter boeykens <pet...@skynet.be>

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[Guillaume Laforge]

Ø J'espere que ca ne t'enleve pas l'envie d'aller le voir [Smile emoticon]

Personally I will go to the theatre with my daughter to see it for sure ! So many friends worked on it at a close or far level through the years.

For the anecdote, I did some Softimage training session for some new hired people at Pumpkin studio coming from Maya (it was done at the french animation School Georges Méliès near Paris).
I don't know if some of them finally worked on this production btw...

Anyway, at least this teaser gives me the opportunity to finish my "...using Softimage<http://frenchdog.wordpress.com/2011/06/15/a-cgi-animated-feature-film-studio-using-softimage/>" stories on my blog :).

Guillaume

From: softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com [mailto:softimag...@listproc.autodesk.com] On Behalf Of peter boeykens
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:31 PM
To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com

Subject: Re: OT : A Monster In Paris

But for those who find the French touch a bit too much, the original edit is actually English.
But given the cast I would expect the French dub to be rather good.

J'espere que ca ne t'enleve pas l'envie d'aller le voir [Smile emoticon]

From: Marc-Andre Carbonneau<mailto:marc-andre...@ubisoft.com>
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 4:47 PM
To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com<mailto:soft...@listproc.autodesk.com>
Subject: RE: OT : A Monster In Paris

Wow, félicitations a tous ceux qui ont travaillé sur ce film! J'ai bien hâte de le voir.

Has that french flavor we love so much. :)

MAC

[peter boeykens]

Hey - it's my first vacation in over a year - I was glad to get my mind on something other than this movie for a change .

[Halim Negadi]

So what, non one reacts ? Jeremie ? Peter ? David ? PYG ? What I just said is no more than history re-rewriting.

Actually Pumpkin3D has been an XSI house ever since they've been doing CG but at that time ( back in late 2006, right after Barnyard Peter ), when they got a deal to make their first animated feature, a debate about switching to Maya popped up for usual recruiting concerns. All this lead to a tough battle between two teams. The Maya team who rigged and animated the the teaser's characters vs XSI team mostly doing rigging rnd, modeling and set dressing. Maya guys completed their part on the Teaser with no rnd support whatsoever ( which is a performance in itself ) and finally accepted to give a try to our favourite piece of software. The rest is history but we finally got our feature film made with our weapon of choice.

[Christopher Tedin]

I really love the dancing between the two main characters. Really fluid and very charming! The main female especially has a great deal of appeal. Wonderful eyes, both in design and dart movement.

I love the bleached out lighting/texture from :29-33. Great environments overall.

On 6/15/11 1:56 PM, peter boeykens wrote:

Hey - it's my first vacation in over a year - I was glad to get my mind on something other than this movie for a change .

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From: Halim Negadi

Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 8:32 PM

To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com

Subject: Re: OT : A Monster In Paris

At last Peter, you show up! I was expecting a faster reaction when I wrote that we lost 2% using nuke :)

Very early work done in�M*y& was only the first teaser when the core team was busy setting up the pipeline and specially the rigging tools.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:27 PM, peter boeykens <pet...@skynet.be> wrote:

To be honest, the amount of nuke work�was MUCH more than 2%

For lighting, I'd say about�half of the work was in Nuke.

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Animation, modeling, layout, texturing, shading�was done by the French studio Pumpkin/Bibofilms (also known from French Roast) - all on Softimage.

( except some very early work�in M*y&.)

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Lighting/compositing/FX/Matte painting was done by Belgian studio Walking the Dog - using Softimage, Mental Ray, Nuke, Deadline, Photoshop.

Next to Softimage, FX also�used max, fumefx, krakatoa and realflow (Jo Plaete was�FX Lead/sup�- kudos!)

We had some�great�people�from Pumpkin helping us out, such as Sylvain Audi, Sebastien Fernandez, Stefano Januzzo and Halim Negadi of course (hi there!)�

We also have a stereo department preparing the stereoscopy�- which in turn�is�

being finished by another French studio, using inhouse software.

Since its not on their website I wont say more.

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Without wanting to minimize the wonderful�tools that were made for the movie - the main�software was used�"out of the box".

Most custom tools were for pipeline and automation.

If proof was�needed that�Softimage is�suited for�a complete�feature animation - this is it.

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I don�t think it was posted here yet�- the poster for the movie has also been made public:

http://www.recentmovieposters.com/2011/06/first-official-poster-for-luc-besson.html

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From: Halim Negadi

Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:04 PM

To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com

Subject: Re: OT : A Monster In Paris

Damn! and nuke makes it going down to 93%. We should have used the FXTree instead :)

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jo Plaete <jo.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Not 100%, 95%, except lots of ICE there was some 3dsmax (fumefx/krakaroa) & realflow involved in FX.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Jeremie Passerin <gere...@gmail.com> wrote:

Cool ! So that's a 100% Softimage feature film... we don't see so many of them ! ;-)

On 15 June 2011 13:06, Halim Negadi <hne...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes Jeremie, all lighting was done in Softimage|MR. A blind lighting pipeline, rebuilt final layout scenes based on xml files, automated generation of tons of passes and auto generated nuke files to do the lighting in comp. Neat stuff despite having to work blind in Softimage.�Some scenes were so heavy that any MR preview attempt lead most of the times to a "failed to save sequence before system failure". Despite that, xsi's great automation capabilities helped us to get it done that way without so much pain.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Jeremie Passerin <gere...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey list,

�

Just to let you know that the first trailer of A Monster in Paris�is finally out. (in French)

The production got delayed many time but here it is ! I worked on that movie 3 years ago.

Modeling, Rigging, Animation, Fx... done in Softimage. I don't know about lighting... Halim ? Was it Softimage too ? It was supposed to be XSI/Mental ray when I left but I don't know about today...

http://www.catsuka.com/player.php?id=un_monstre_a_paris_bande_annonce

Congratulation to all the team !

Jeremie

[Jeremie Passerin]

Sorry Halim, when I arrived at Pumpkin3D, the decision was already made to stick with Softimage so I was not part of that Maya discussions. 

That was a great experience for me, and I really liked the pipeline that was simple but clever... again mainly thanks to Softimage which is already good enough and don't need so much work to fit in a pipeline... We were 5 people in RnD and I think I was the only one developing full time for Softimage. 

On 15 June 2011 21:09, Christopher Tedin <cte...@comcast.net> wrote:

I really love the dancing between the two main characters. Really fluid and very charming! The main female especially has a great deal of appeal. Wonderful eyes, both in design and dart movement.

I love the bleached out lighting/texture from :29-33. Great environments overall.

On 6/15/11 1:56 PM, peter boeykens wrote:

Hey - it's my first vacation in over a year - I was glad to get my mind on something other than this movie for a change .

 

 

From: Halim Negadi

Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 8:32 PM

To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com

Subject: Re: OT : A Monster In Paris

At last Peter, you show up! I was expecting a faster reaction when I wrote that we lost 2% using nuke :)

Very early work done in M*y& was only the first teaser when the core team was busy setting up the pipeline and specially the rigging tools.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 8:27 PM, peter boeykens <pet...@skynet.be> wrote:

To be honest, the amount of nuke work was MUCH more than 2%

For lighting, I'd say about half of the work was in Nuke.

 

Animation, modeling, layout, texturing, shading was done by the French studio Pumpkin/Bibofilms (also known from French Roast) - all on Softimage.

( except some very early work in M*y&.)

 

Lighting/compositing/FX/Matte painting was done by Belgian studio Walking the Dog - using Softimage, Mental Ray, Nuke, Deadline, Photoshop.

Next to Softimage, FX also used max, fumefx, krakatoa and realflow (Jo Plaete was FX Lead/sup - kudos!)

We had some great people from Pumpkin helping us out, such as Sylvain Audi, Sebastien Fernandez, Stefano Januzzo and Halim Negadi of course (hi there!) 

We also have a stereo department preparing the stereoscopy - which in turn is 

being finished by another French studio, using inhouse software.

Since its not on their website I wont say more.

 

Without wanting to minimize the wonderful tools that were made for the movie - the main software was used "out of the box".

Most custom tools were for pipeline and automation.

If proof was needed that Softimage is suited for a complete feature animation - this is it.

 

 

I don’t think it was posted here yet - the poster for the movie has also been made public:

http://www.recentmovieposters.com/2011/06/first-official-poster-for-luc-besson.html

 

 

 

 

 

From: Halim Negadi

Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 2:04 PM

To: soft...@listproc.autodesk.com

Subject: Re: OT : A Monster In Paris

Damn! and nuke makes it going down to 93%. We should have used the FXTree instead :)

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:48 PM, Jo Plaete <jo.p...@gmail.com> wrote:

Not 100%, 95%, except lots of ICE there was some 3dsmax (fumefx/krakaroa) & realflow involved in FX.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:15 PM, Jeremie Passerin <gere...@gmail.com> wrote:

Cool ! So that's a 100% Softimage feature film... we don't see so many of them ! ;-)

On 15 June 2011 13:06, Halim Negadi <hne...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yes Jeremie, all lighting was done in Softimage|MR. A blind lighting pipeline, rebuilt final layout scenes based on xml files, automated generation of tons of passes and auto generated nuke files to do the lighting in comp. Neat stuff despite having to work blind in Softimage. Some scenes were so heavy that any MR preview attempt lead most of the times to a "failed to save sequence before system failure". Despite that, xsi's great automation capabilities helped us to get it done that way without so much pain.

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Jeremie Passerin <gere...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hey list,

 

Just to let you know that the first trailer of A Monster in Paris is finally out. (in French)

The production got delayed many time but here it is ! I worked on that movie 3 years ago.

Modeling, Rigging, Animation, Fx... done in Softimage. I don't know about lighting... Halim ? Was it Softimage too ? It was supposed to be XSI/Mental ray when I left but I don't know about today...

http://www.catsuka.com/player.php?id=un_monstre_a_paris_bande_annonce

Congratulation to all the team !

Jeremie

[Christopher Crouzet]

Glad that there's finally something out! Congrats guys, I'm definitely looking forward to see it!
Can't believe it was originally edited in english though, I hope they kept the soundtrack of -M- at least?

[peter boeykens]

The songs were written part french part english - so nothing should get butchered in translation.

If you're an M or Vanessa Paradis fan, you should have fun.

 

Mind you that we didn’t work with the final soundtrack, they were doing recordings only a few weeks ago.

 

This one is more for crew that might be lurking here: it seems a fine art book is in the make... yay!

 

[peter boeykens]

sorry for the shameless plug -

 

just found the video to the song "La Seine" - performed by M and Vanessa Paradis

all images are an extract from the movie Monster In Paris.

 

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xjn9k5_un-monstre-a-paris-la-seine_shortfilms