As promised, here’s a very low resolution version of the Tortuga Beach and Spa Resort animation completed a few months ago. Audio was provided by Sounding Post and the title animation by Finishing Post - everything else is ours 
The final animation was rendered to D1 PAL Widescreen for TV playback and 1024 x 576 square pixel for computer playback.
We were fortunate enough to land a planning application image for a new commercial development in Ashby de la Zouch, Derbyshire. We handled on-site photography after discussion on camera angles with the architect and used our real-lens technology in our 3D software to match the computer lens with the physical camera lens - lens distortion is all then accounted for. Luckily the sun decided to shine…for a very short while. Perhaps we’d just witnessed summer!
It seems it’s the season for planning applications and we managed to complete another set of visuals for this proposed development in Belper, Derbyshire. With this project we took the architect’s SketchUp files and used the geometry as the base for our work. This saved us time, and therefore the client money - which made them very happy. We like happy clients
Our favourite stonemason, Ian Knapper, commissioned another interior image from us to showcase his latest staircase design. As usual, he is kind enough to allow us the freedom to come up with an interior and bannister we feel fits his latest design - we hope we’ve done it justice.
This is another project for a respected client, a set of high quality residential houses for a development in Gedling, Derbyshire.
A short, sharp house visualisation, testing our new instancing technology to place individual pebbles, grass blades and even daisies in the scene.
We also tested the new “real lens” rendering technology we have in-house. We have the ability to choose whichever real-world camera and lens combination we want in order to produce the final image. Lens distortion and irradiance fall-off (the fact that images tend to get darker towards the corners of the photograph) are all accurately reproduced in these computer-generated images. This is great for compositing CGIs into real-world photography with seamless results. These images were produced as if taken with a Canon EOS 10D Digital SLR camera with a Canon EF 17-35mm f/2.8L USM lens.
Of course, all of this can also be animated!
Well, finally we can show you the project that’s kept us busy from mid December last year. We were commissioned by a Staffordshire-based adverting and design agency to produce all of the CGI for this large off-shore leisure complex development in the Atlantic ocean. We’re proud of what we’ve accomplished, especially given the time scale, and the quantity of information that needed to be juggled to get the job done.
Our remit included:
Needless to say this was a fun and hectic project - next!
Our client, a respected marketing agency, approached us to create some 3D concept logos for their end client, PRM Fixers. These are some of the 3D doodles along the way and the final chosen version is amongst the pool.
We’ve been asked by cable manufacturer Draka’s marketing agency to produce a number of illustrations over time, usually a mix of photography and CGI. This time, due to the various angles the cable ends needed to be shot from we decided to model this small portion of their range as computer models. The end result is more freedom when deciding which order to place the cables for the final shot, right up to the print deadline, and we can reuse them for any future projects!
It was a choice of big foam models of numbers, or call the CGI people from albino igil in…
…they chose us…yay!
Ashfield Healthcare have a magazine designed and produced by one of our clients, the cover designer wanted a lot of big numbers on their stairs, so we were commissioned to whizz over to Ashfield’s headquarters, photograph their stairs, pootle back to our studio, slap (in a very complex CGI kind of way) some numbers in to the computers, press the magic button and pop out a composite CGI/photograph image.
If only it was that easy we’d all be doing it…
