David O'Reilly - The External World

EXTW Trailer

WTF

Pretty idm.

Of course its IDM he did the Venetian Snares video!

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The External World is now on the internets for your viewing pleasure.

Be warned its odd... (in a good way)

http://vimeo.com/19723116

cheers, gonna watch this later when my head's less likely to explode.

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What kind of software does it take to make something like this? I'd like to make videos really badly.

  On 2/9/2011 at 9:16 PM, happycase said:

What kind of software does it take to make something like this? I'd like to make videos really badly.

This was done with Autodesk Maya, but animation could be done with any 3D software.

Watched it. It was good. Very good. I even found it quite sentimental the way it ended. Took me by surprise throughout.

I love how his aesthetics work, big chunky digital renders but it still feels so raw and grounded, unlike all that over-done over polished kids program 3D shite.

  On 2/9/2011 at 9:38 PM, blackdust said:

  On 2/9/2011 at 9:16 PM, happycase said:

What kind of software does it take to make something like this? I'd like to make videos really badly.

This was done with Autodesk Maya, but animation could be done with any 3D software.

BD, could you point me to some more 3D software?

I think Blender is the way to go if you don't want to spend big cash.

http://www.blender.org/

its free, open source, and does pretty much what Maya or 3dsMax will do...

Never used it before, but the results are pretty impressive.

Sculptris is another very nifty small tool for free sculpting. Its a bit like a baby brother of Zbrush.

This one has a small learning curve and you can see results straight away, plus you can import and export .obj files

You could always download the 30 day trial for Maya, but both Maya and 3dsMax have some seriously filthy learning curves... I think I might give Maya a shot someday.

This is the guy who did Octocat.

More recommendations here

http://www.kvraudio.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=4417765#4417765

I see you've already noticed the Messiah thread

A huge O'Reilly fan and was first introduced to him through the amazing Please Say Something short -

Though for some reason I didn't know anything about this latest one until today. Can't wait to watch this in big ol' HD this evening.

Haha had no idea he was Irish..

what a sick fecker.

i really loved please say something but i was putting off the external world cause i wanted to be in the mood for something sappy and poignant. I was (extremely) pleasantly surprised at the change of tone. Im laughing my ass off

I really like the themes as well. The one of paternal influence is very strong, and obviously death, sex, shame and sadness. I thought the Acme retirement community was incredible, the place filling with blood. I just love the way all the subject matter is handled. It really requires repeated viewing.

David O'Reilly does a brief animation for Tim & Eric's new project "Professor Genki's Super Ethical Reality Climax"

http://vimeo.com/31749658(NSFW - due to one shot)