The Bunks of The Clone Vessel Ortega

Here we have the beginning of the interior design of the Clone Vessel Ortega. This is a work in progress of what will be the clones’ bunks.

There will continue to be changes made to this scene as the rest of the ship develops. We will ensure that the ship has a cohesive feal throughout its various environments. With this ship, we are looking to blur the edges between mechanical and biological.

The Architecture of Onoda 63 Version II

Planet Onoda 63 Test Render

Onoda Architecture Version I

 We are working on designing the architecture of Onoda 63. Here is the first style in contention.

Bastion 13

Bastion 13 is the last city not fallen to the wildmen. The SubTerra train system that used to connect these last remnants of civilization now lay dormant. Their lines have been walled up and stations turned into hydro farms. How long can it last? Resources run low and tensions high. 

Where The Mountains Meet The Sky - Official Music Video

 We have officially completed our second music video for the Smells Like Revenge Productions house band To Say The Least. You can watch the new video bellow. Join us on Patreon by click the button in the top of the right panel.

Ai in Animation: Music Video WIP

 Below are frames from a test render. These frames are from the upcoming music video for Where the Mountains Meets the Sky, a song by To Say The Least. The video is being animated by Blake Ellender with fx and editing by Scott Stevens.

Ai in Animation

Here at Smells Like Revenge Productions We’ve always tried to combine Math, Science, History and Art in, hopefully, interesting ways. Now we’re taking it a step further. Blake Ellender has now finished coding an Ai to speed up rendering animation frames, or in layman’s terms, how fast we can make videos. This Ai takes frames from the animation software we use and ups the resolution. Essentially the Ai takes a pixelated image and then draws in the corrections based on images it’s looked at before.

As of now this Ai is doubling the resolution of each frame (quadrupling the number of pixels). This is equivalent to taking a 540-pixel by 960-pixel video to a 1080-pixel by 1920-pixel one.

Here is an example of a successful upscaling done by the network:

From the upcoming music video for Where the Mountains Meet the Sky by To Say the Least. Animation by Blake T. Ellender

For the super nerds:

This Ai is based on various VDSR CNN architectures. It is much shallower than most I found mentioned online, only a dozen or so layers deep, but works quite well for these purposes. This is helped by the fact this application is looking for what looks best NOT WHAT IS 100% accurate. This creates a purposeful “bias” that comes out in the lighting and field of depth within the scene. This is achieved by have a larger allowance of loss in the Convolutional Neural Network than may be desired in non-artistic applications.

Lachesis Lyric Video Test Render 2

Test Render for and upcoming lyric video.

Test Render Teaser

This is a test render of a scene set for an upcoming project. Animation by Blake T. Ellender.