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Hello everyone!

We have just finished our latest job here at RGBprod . We were invited to create the 3d animations for the introduction of the different awards of the Grand Prix de l’Horlogerie de Genève 2009. This event can be explained as the “oscars” of watchmaking. It was shown last Saturday to an audience of 1200 of the most prestigious watchmakers of Switzerland during the award Ceremony held in the Geneva Grand Theater.

and here is the link to the first introduction movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHMYdjCtefU

The animations stars a robot made of an epic amount pieces taken from a watch mechanical movement. We basically modeled a robot shape we liked and started to stick these pieces to that shape, adding details and creating new some pieces if we needed them, but most of the piece very already modeled from a previous project we did. As for the rigging process well…it was like any other rig, nothing much special Except maybe that most of the gears are driven from bones using drivers, so they rotate whenever you move an arm or leg, handy!

All 3d done in blender some compositing and effects in aftereffect. The project credits goes also to Francesco Siddi (our talented italian) and Andres Bajares (our talented apprentice). Music and sound from Impactaudio.

please be sure to also check out the 11 little animations for the different awards

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Fantastic! Even a little bit of humor to counter the drama. Great job! Give us a beauty shot closeup for the Gallery!
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I agree with Papasmurf- fantastic! Personally, I like the ending the best.
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That was fantastic!! How did you make it?
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Wow. Awesome. That robot has an incredible level of detail. I'm speechless...
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This is a level of quality that is rarely achieved. hats off to you.
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Just incredible.

There are so many talented people in this world!
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I think everything has been said. amazing quality, and agree with the humorous part.
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Hello,
thank you for the nice words.
Here are some pictures :

and here another one:
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i would think to impress a bunch of watch makers, you'd have to have a stunning level of detail... thier daily task has detail that most creatives would never bump into. so well done on making something that looks like properly complex. the whirlwind building at the start was very cool
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Stunning work. Excellent.

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Damn awesome!
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this is unbeliveble!!!
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That's amazing! Very realistic looking too!
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