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Hi!

I recently did a Sodastream commercial where I rendered it with octane 2.22 in Cinema 4d.

https://vimeo.com/124415386
pass: soda

Hi Erxxi,

very well done! I like it. Not sure, which shot is real and which CG.
Not every shot is CG, right? Tell me, the 3 Glasses at 0:12 are real shots...otherwise you are a realflow expert.

May I ask some questions?
If the cooking water shot at 0:17 is CG, how did you achieve the sparkling bubbles effect?
And the big bubbles at the beginning and the middle: Did you use any plugins for that or just cloners and metaball? Xparticles? Realflow?

Only little thing that catched my attention, because it is a commercial:
It seems to be a bit noisy at 0:07. Did you use pathtracing and facing a hard deadline?
Glass and Water (deforming speculars) is hard to render for animation.

Thanx for sharing again!
This is top notch!

Cya,
ChrisVis

Hi Chris!

Thanks for the reply!

You're right, the three glasses is live action shot with a GH4 (but I wish i could say they're CGI )

the sparkling/carbonating shots in the packshot and 0:17 is made by using a texture sequence from the bubbles in the live action shot and playing around with opacity and refraction index in a specular material.

the closeup bubbles were made with a simple emitter and metaballs. no plugins.

the renders were a bit noisy due to tight deadline (direct lighting , but I also added some grain with film convert cause I wanted a 16mm look on the closeups.

Hi Erxxi,

sounds like real production tasks mastered just fine.
The bubble close ups look very nice for directlighting. Very well done with C4D only.

Thanx for the info on the sparkling water shot. Mixing live action texture sequence is a very smart "workaround" for a otherwise hard to do shot like this.

Adding grain with filmconvert is great, but it sometimes gets messed up by online compression. I think thats the case here, at least thats my experience with much grain and h.264 compression.

Thanx again for being part of the community,
I`d like to see more.

Greetings,
ChrisVis

really really nice.
But at the last scene, the ice looks horrible..sry