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The challenge was to design and produce an individual visual effects shot. There were a two fundamental rules; to keep the visual weight of the sphere shape which dominates the upper right of the frame; and not to change the animation of the humanoid provided.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m still relatively fresh to this type of 3D work, so this was a really great exercise to broaden out skills in the areas I already had experience with, and of course to learn some new tricks \u2013 which was my sole motivation throughout.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been using Blender<\/em> for just over 18 months and After Effects<\/em> for years. Having already had some experience using .exr files and cryptomattes<\/em> for visual effects compositing, during this project I\u2019ve now built upon this workflow further. Absolutely love the power cryptomattes offer when compositing.<\/p>\n

I had a few ideas but settled on a sci-fi \/ space idea. The general idea was to feature an animated alien specimen which an android was carrying from a just landed cargo ship. The video in this post shows the work I produced on this challenge, with a brief breakdown showing some of the processes involved.<\/p>\n

There have been some incredible pieces of art created in this challenge, over 2400<\/strong> artists were involved!<\/p>\n

A 3 hour long video of all the Alternative Realities Challenge<\/a> entries has been created with all the renders seamlessly showcased. This video in itself must have been a challenge to produce. The video nicely separates all the entries into categories, chaptered to help break up the sheer volume of work, and also making it a nice thing to dip back into from time-to-time, a great source of inspiration.<\/p>\n

My entry is just around 147 mins<\/strong> in, under the ‘Space’ category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I undertook the “Alternative Realities” Render Challenge to create a sci-fi inspired animation","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":[],"categories":[73,81,478],"tags":[474,16,475,34,76,80,56,304,168,479,473,18,319,41,89,17,11,42,40,10,88,91,182,90],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n"The Specimen" - Alternative Realities Render Challenge - Jaybee Productions UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I undertook the "Alternative Realities" Render Challenge to create a sci-fi inspired animation.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jamiebrightmore.com\/visual-effects\/alternative-realities-render-challenge\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\""The Specimen" - 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