12 November 2009 - 16:00
Rendered speechless
When the creative director of Top Gear magazine mails a link around the office with the subject line, ‘The future is this stuff', you'd be silly not to sit up and pay attention.
The link points to a YouTube page featuring some awesome CGI work from an Azerbaijani designer called PanTural.
If you watch the video, you can really start to see how 3D computer animation could shape the future of your first contact with new cars: CGI renderings rather than the real thing.
And when they look this good, does it matter if they're not The Real Thing?
This kind of CGI will likely start appearing more and more, especially within the confines of your favourite car magazines, who wouldn't need to get their hands on a real vehicle to do a photoshoot.
However, when you consider that this piece of work took PanTural 110 days just to render, you realise that we're not quite there just yet.
But in five years? It's definitely possible...
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Um.. this is rendering the Stig "unemployed"!! Looks very very cool, and in the long run it's probably much cheaper than getting the actual cars.. ..but isn't TopGear ABOUT driving real cars? I think I prefer watching Clarkson, May and Hammond cock about, to watching CGI simulations..
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What was the point of putting all those credits in? and why is there a lada in there instead of a Lambo pr something?
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brilliant CGI just why arnt there this sort of quality in cinemas?
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Brilliant, another hit against the already struggling car photographer in the search for cheapness...
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video is great. I had never seen it bifore. And nothing else more... Cool, bro.
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Here in the states they use CGI for a lot of the glamor shots in their commercials already.
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Hi this is the best video i have seen in a long time. i love the lada
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Thanks for putting that Lada in. As a Russian I really respect that.
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That Lada sticks out like a monster truck parked outside the Buckingham Palace.
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The future has terrible taste in cars.
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dear god.get this pantural chap on the top gear team!!!
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This animation is simply insane. But to be honest after seeing Transformers 2 and the trailer of 2012 I think it is not that shocking and surprising at all. CGI is capable of really amazing things... And I like it!
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PanTural just plain amazing...is his brain made from indestructible metal from Transformer 2...doubt it LOL
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Wow. Gran Turismo 6 anyone?
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Think back a few years, CGI looked like what you see in many games now... so it stands to reason future driving games will look like this, but I think we'll have to wait quite some time.
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Thats incredible, love the sound effects and music. Also love the drift at 3 minutes in.
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@Twister: The point is that he is an CGI artist that probably wants a job. This is to show of his skills, and maybe the next director of the Fast and Furious series will see it and hire him. Something along those lines. That's how ora-ito got famous as an industrial designer for example. He created fake products for popular companies, people thought he is good... and hired him. Also, the credits were very interesting to me, it's always interesting what CGI artists use. Oh, and the Lada rocks.
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It's a case of a decent modeller with absolutely no ability as a director :) Best of luck to him though, lot of potential there.
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Is this very cool? Yes. Will it replace Stig, Clarkson, Hammond and May? Only if we are stupid enough to let it. Top Gear is about the interaction between machine and the human being behind the wheel. You can CGI anything you want - Lambos, Corvettes, Ewan McGregor - what have you. Only the real thing is the real thing. And there ain't nuthin' like the real thing, baby.
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*Drops Jaw*... :O WOW
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Great vid but..whats with the VAZ 2107?
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I agree with mikeado. This dude has a future in polyphony
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That's amazing!
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This is definitely an awe inspiring feat of computer graphics. The best example ever created quite possibly. Despite this even when this process can be accomplished in a matter of hours, it will not replace real cars that react according to all real physics and break down according to real physics and etc. Amazing though
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Bobs commented on this article
12 November 2009
Very impressive, I do see this becoming more and more common in the near future. It is far easier and more efficient than using actual cars.
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