2018 - 7th Place
"Cartoon Cars Race"
by artur Hałaczkiewicz - Warsaw, Poland
From Artur:
Description of project:
In animation, I tried to keep the atmosphere of Looney Tunes using the possibilities offered by Flame. The Cartoon Cars Race was created on the elderly Flame 2012 at the HP Z800 station, because of it, work was not as easy as pie. Each small change resulted in a few seconds pause of the interface, and during the rendering of the preview without motion blur and anti-aliasing it took almost two hours... At last, in the project, there are more than 100 layers and dozens of modified 3D primitives. But I have got through it! I had to limit myself because of the assumptions of the animation, it was supposed to be longer and more complicated. But as always - there is no time!
In this demo, I put emphasis on how easy is to create complicated movements and control theme in Flame. The Flame was the first in the world to have a system of nodes (yes, I am so old that I remember those beginnings!), which later was copied by all self-respecting compositing programs.
In my animation, some AXIS's are responsible for steering the wheels, others for the car's path, others for tilting to the sides, and others for tilting to the front and back. The whole project is created as one BATCH, and practically as one ACTION (yes, yes, I remember the times when Flame did not have BATCH yet). Shots were made of several independent cameras in one BATCH. As elements I used only a few basic 3D objects with deformer, all graphics are prepared by masks and color corrections - as it is One Frame of White! I did not use any SAPHIRE plugins or matchboxes etc. I did not even use Paint :)
If elderly Flame and old hardware let control the animation using only One Frame of White like that - then imagine what can be done on the video material, imported 3D models with using powerful plugins and scripts!
The film is prepared to watch it in a loop for the best results. Ultimately it's never-ending Cartoon Car Rece!
Best regards,
Artur Hałaczkiewicz