VFX404– 28 Days of Rain for Zombie Community - VOTE HERE!

[CGnews]

Welcome to the voting for VFX404– 28 Days of Rain for Zombie Community!

Thank you and congratulations to everyone who took part in the '28 Days of Rain for Zombie Community' challenge. We've had some fantastic and terrifying submissions that really bring on that dreaded atmosphere from 28 Days later. Enjoy viewing all the entries and then please head to the poll and make your vote.

The submissions thread with all the entries is posted here: http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/vfx404-28-days-rain-zombie-community-submit-t28011.html, but you can also view each entry via the hyperlinks posted in the poll above.

Please take a good look at the entries and place your votes for your favourite Zombie weather simulation challenge.


Note that when voting you can only select one entry, so make sure you check all the videos out before voting as you will only be able to vote once!

Please leave a message on this thread to let us know why you voted on the entry that you voted for.

Be honest, vote based on the work, the idea and the execution, don't get your friends to join and vote for you...

Once again a big thank you to our amazing challenge sponsors:

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Silversoft (http://www.silversoft.com/)


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[Oracle]

I have to say it´s been quite hard to pick a favourite this month because the standard of the work was great. I think not using source footage really added something to the challenge and made them all interesting in their own way because the entries were so diverse and imaginative.

After careful consideration I voted for Jingles I particularly love the details like the eerie girl at the side of the road clutching her teddy bear and the music blaring in the car over the thudding of the rain, then the door opening sound which is unique in the US, and finally the leg being dragged away from the car. It gave me the creeps but just enough to want to know more and carry on watching....That´s my kind of film something leaving you wanting more. As I say though really enjoyed all of them great work everyone.

[saran822tex]

why i voted for the work done by "sankaravfx" team
this work having a neat narration of a good concept.and a strong story telling visuals.and also i like the color tone. good work

[rikkmcc]

wow wish i had know about this earlier, would have been great to have been apart of this. i voted for jclapin, that zombie at the end really freaked me out, lol, nice work everyone

[Popeye Media]

I voted for Sankaravfx because all of their shots had a great sense of depth, great lighting/color and timing/ animation. Each shot seemed well polished and assembled in a way that established their environment. The zombies were integrated very well into the piece. Great work!

[javashrine]

First off, great entries from everyone, I wish I had of had time this month to enter.

And so (drumroll please...)

Treeloy got my vote for the following reasons:

1. It's the kind of shot that I would have done.

2. I'm not a horror movie fan so the "normality" was scarier I thought.

3. Technically (matchmoving and the keying) I thought it was great.

Maybe it could have been a little darker and some more rain and atmosphere just to give it some of the typical horror feel, but then again the lack of this is what caught my eye.

Again, great entries from everyone.

[treeloy]

I went for SANKRVFX. I like the overall mood and atmosphere. Also technically one of the stronger ones.

[sankaravfx]

i voted for " jingles".other than our work, really we like to apprerciate the work (zombie + rain) and effort taken by jingles is amazing.
sankara

[vivapower]

my vote is with sankaravfx,which has the most well packaged one...rite from the eerie settings, the news clips and matte paintings...but i think everyone has done a gud job here..gud luck guys!!!

[SoarerVFX]

Nice work from everyone, I enjoyed watching them all.
I voted jclapin because I like the mood set in the piece. It felt like an extract out of a horror movie.

[georgeivan]

Nice work i voted for Samzen i like the overall atmosphere and grading.

I like Sankaravfx entry´s but the static chopper and the overall after effects layer look drop a few points,at least for me.

Imho sometimes less is more

Anyway good job!!!

[sajith]

Sankaravfx has tried to say a story with the help of vfx with in the limited period of time and he succeeded in that . thats what I am with Sankaravfx.

[sais100]

I voted for Sankaravfx because they have produced a very professional looking clip with great background and colour. Thought has gone into the story telling and real attention paid to the brief. I felt that the rest of the film would be as creepy as the 'trailer'. well done.

[ness]

Great standard of entries guys, found it difficult to choose between everyone but gave my vote to Jingles.... They produced an excellent clip which included all the elements of the challenge.

[omparab]

well said "georgeivan (http://www.vfxtalk.com/forum/member.php?u=26547)" atmosphere is fantastic need to take some tips form u for my next project

[.hel]

Voted for Jingles. I liked the atmosphere, rain effect and the zombie girl. And I felt for the poor driver... ;]

[fazyahmed]

"Sankara VFX "

I could see you have done a pretty nice job overall , But we could have the continuity in terms of colour correction and rain seems to be not merging overall .....
Otherwise .. its very good ....
Cheers.
AnimFaz

[CGnews]

The voting poll for ‘VFX404 – 28 Days of Rain for Zombie Community’ has now closed!

We enjoyed this challenge immensely and loved seeing all the Zombie work in progress and the incredible and very disturbing final entries - all the films portrayed the grim and desolate atmosphere that we were looking for.

Thank you to everyone for the excellent work and many congratulations to the winners – it was a close run thing! But to confirm the entries are placed as follows:

VFX404
1st place - Sankaravfx
2nd place - Samzen
3rd place - Jingles

The Judges have been asked to vote for the winner of the judges prize and this will be announced as soon as possible in the New Year.

The leaderboard will be updated in January when the vote for the judges prize is finalised.

VFX405
The next challenge will be posted in early January, so watch the Challenge forums for news of the VFXChallenges in 2011. New prizes for the New Year will include Apple iPads!

Best Wishes for a great Christmas and a happy New Year!

From Everyone at VFXTalk


The prizes for VFX404

1st Place: The 1st Place winner of each monthly VFX challenge will be taking home a hot Intel based Mac Mini! This fantastic prize has been sponsored by the cool people at online independent film site Sputnik7. They will also receive a Taskwise Small Business account, use this innovative software to easily create and share projects and information between a team of up to 10 people.

2nd Place: The runner up will receive a subscription to the eyeon SWAT program and a free copy of SWAT Edition of Fusion! eyeon's new SWAT Membership program offers SWAT members the opportunity to learn Fusion in several different ways from introductory to advanced online training resources and webinars, extensive facility training, 3-day to 6-week courses, SWAT authorized curriculums, including universities and colleges and One-on-one seminars. Members also have access to great SWAT Edition pricing and upgrade models!

Third place: Third place winner is sponsored by CMIvfx, the leading provider of technological training for visual effects artists! You will take home your choice of one CMIvfx training video, take advantage of greate online visual effects training to hone your skills! You can also buy training videos from their site this month at a added discount using the VFX401 promo code!

Judges Prize: The challenges now feature a judges prize that will be awarded to the entry that has the most advanced and seamless usage of visual effects. The judges prize is sponsored by Ribbit Films and consists of a Ribbit Films video compilation worth thousands of dollars!

The Grand Prize:
Series Grand Prize: The coveted grand prize, awarded to the winner of the series, is sponsored by Sputnik7, Eyeon and The Foundry! It consists of an Apple Mac Pro workstation loaded with the latest complete versions of both Eyeon Fusion 6 plus Generation and a copy of Nuke from The Foundry!

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[srikanth.bfa]

Thanks to everyone for ur encouragement.
it was a great learning experience. we learned a lot.
congrats to samzen ,jingles...
-
sankara, srikanth, damodaran.

[samzen]

hey congrats to all winners.
gud fun doing this....
c u all again next year.

[Jingles]

Congrats to everyone who competed in this challenge, and I hope everyone enjoyed working on this project as much as I did.

Can't wait till the next one.