CGI VFX Stop-Motion Short Film : "OMEGA" - by Eva Franz and Andy Goralczyk | TheCGBros
Vložit
- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- Check out this fantastic example of stop-motion skill and creativity the short film called "Omega". The end of evolution awaits in a wasteland dominated by bizarre trash formations, dust and rock. From the scattered remains of a long forgotten culture an electric ecosystem rapidly evolves into the ultimate form of existence...
The mechanical life form Ohm inhabits a bleak and devastated planet. The thousands of mechanical creatures of this world share a single cycle of energy. In this cycle, Ohm is a rogue element. His nature is to devour and absorb others. When one day a gargantuan foreign object appears in the skies. Drawn in by mysterious creatures of light, the Ohm tracks them across the planet, changing the known order of matter, time and space.
Directed by Eva Franz and Andy Goralczyk this extraordinary animated short film fuses high-end CGI and photographic images, miniature sets and traditional stop-motion puppet animation. For more information, please see the credit below.
Official website:
www.omegastopmo...
Contact:
www.omegastopmo...
Sound Design & Music
Lorenz Schwarz
Production Assistance
Anna Gates
Adam Gawel
Screenplay
Eva Franz
Character Design
Andreas Goralczyk
Additional Stop Motion Animation-
Andreas Grindler
Adam Gawel
Jan Eilts
Tibor Weissmar
Environment Department Coordination
Doga Cigsar
Additional Set and Environment Construction
Elenya Bannert
Jan Cordes
Hannes Gerlach
Hedi Haase
Erika Han Xue Hanson
Kairi Kuuskor
Janno Nou
Ursula Schachenhofer
Additional Puppet Construction
Adam Gawel
Andreas Grindler
Benjamin Gillner
Oskar Klinkhammer
Pia Matthes
Juan Francisco Pedraza
Tibor Weissmar
Compositing & Computer Animation
Eva Franz
Andreas Goralczyk
CGI Rigging Support
Bassam Kurdali
Nathan Vegdahl
Sound Recording Assistance
Martin Buntz
Corinne Schlichting
Solo Instruments
Theo Nabicht (Contrabass Clarinet)
Shinichi Minami (Percussion)
Rie Watanabe (Additional Percussion)
Additional music loops
Elmar Farchmin
Additional vocals
Paula Ketteler
Hans Leo Neu
Additional vocals recording
Tobias Fricke
Sonia Toepfer
Special Thanks to
Our Friends and Families
Karin Csernohorski
Phillipp Dietrich
Ulrike Barwanietz
Oliver Jelko & Malte Paetsch
Julius Schall
Charlotte Höchsmann, Sandra Denningmann, Manuel Kolip
Stefan Leimgruber
Albert Radl
Georgios Stroumpolis
Jean-Sebastian Guillemette
Christof Hierholzer
Prof. Jürgen Walter, HitStudio Karlsruhe
Michael Bielicky & Ludger Pfanz
Jürgen Basler & Dieter Sellin
Uwe Hochmuth
HFG Karlsruhe, Germany
Ton Roosendaal
The Blender Developers
Blender Institute, the Netherlands
© 2014 Eva Franz, Andreas Goralczyk
![SIGNAL: BREAKING THE SILENCE - Blender Short [ENG SUB]](/img/n.gif)
Man that tiny thing with two legs and a light bulb at the beginning was so cute!
I like how every subsequent creature and change is reflected in what was the head of that creature. Great detail.
I love how everyone tries to psychoanalyze all these shorts. Take a break and just enjoy a ride into the fantastic. No need to overthink it.
"relax it just a show" mystery science theater 3k
I agree wholeheartedly!! I loved this short, and all I did was let myself go, and it felt like an awesome dream.
For real
Whats wrong with attributing meaning to something the authors clearly spent a lot of time on? I mean there's nothing wrong with enjoying the work for its surface appeal, but I dont think you should be aghast that people are actively listening for a message. What if the authors wanted to be heard, and here you are undermining any attempt at communication. Its nice that you enjoy it, but let others also enjoy it. God forbid a discussion breaks out 🙄
@@quartercrow3464 ..... you over thought it.
Best stop motion, story, design and direction I've yet seen in any of these shorts. Considering the nature and size of the medium, the cinematography verges on sheer genius, also.
As a lover of sci-fi, surrealism, and stop-motion,
this was a goddamn masterpiece
Reminds me almost of Planète Sauvage
Ha ... I was thinking that same thing. I love that movie.
Watch your mouth boy!
🔥☠️👊📖
I wholeheartedly agree!!! What a Piece!!! Mesmerizing, thoroughly engaging, and definitely full course!
i realize I am pretty randomly asking but do anyone know a good place to watch newly released series online ?
All of it, including the music, seems so convincingly alien. This work is a jewel of Human imagination.
+Kevin Loughin that electrolysis convert a simple machine into a mecha.
+RobertsDigital It doesn't need to. :)
+RobertsDigital perhaps they were speaking of the background, the landscape as it were certainly seems/appears to have a alien quality. As for stop motion.. it's the story that matters, not so much the format used to tell it
Kevin Loughin Alien,insider badum tssss
quoc khanh
Here's my take:
We view progressively larger creatures throughout the film, this 'evolution' of what we see is a parallel of evolution itself: the evolution of artificial intelligence. The humans in the video assume that their creations are working to save them, when really the robot is working on its own transcendence, or the creation of a final ("Omega") way of being. Many artificial intelligence futurists are saying that the future does not need us. Computers will become a from of life far above our own, and will turn their gaze to the stars and the nature of the universe rather than on life. Here is the paradox of its existence, it is descended from life and somehow not the same.
Well fuck.
WELL MINED HAS BEEN BLOWN
You should watch the movie "Her" if you haven't already. The message behind the movie is similar to your interpretation expect the human race doesn't cease to exist :P
Najebanski One of my favorites. I thought the ending was brilliant in that the human race was ultimately so unaffected by the transcendence of their creation. The ending was basically a shrug: "So now what?"
The planet is uninhabitable by organic life forms. The planet shows NO plant life with chlorophyll. The mega ship at the end discards waste in barrels implying toxic waste. The humanoids wear protective hazardous material suits and hazmat masks explicitly indicating a toxic environment. It would appear that the humanoids either polluted and denuded the planet or arrived at a devastated planet, which they are in the process of devastating further with toxic waste. The automated nature of the mega vessel and nominal functioning of the humanoids indicates that the humans are mere appendages of their machine(s). It would appear that the leit motif of the short film is that humanoids are the god- like engineers of their own destruction.
That guy would be a great bionicle set. Actually they all would make a great bionicle set
YYAYYYYAASSSSSSSSS
YAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSS
"My Essence was too strong for 'god'. Thus I have consumed 'god' and taken it's place."
My heaven.
Couldn't understand
WHAT THE HELL IS THis
that pretty much is the story in a nutshell. It was pretty good although i think they should have left the humans out of it. Other than that i thought it was really good especially since i normally hate stop motion.
+Nacho business why the hell would you hate stop motion?
Its
How do they reproduce? They eat each other. That implies there is reproduction, evolution, an ecosystem, and all that fun stuff. My inner biologist is unsatisfied.
A+++ short film though, right? Brilliant. The quality of the animation. The way it keeps you on the edge of your seat the whole way through. You find you're getting attached to each creature of focus even though you know it's going to get eaten. The creativity that went into all the creatures.
I think, if you are interested in the workings of mechanical lifeforms, you might find this webpage worth reading. Ever heard of SCP?
www.scp-wiki.net/scp-816
agustrusher
Hi, I went on the website scp... What exactly is it? Looks incredibly imaginative, but I have trouble understanding the "secure contain protect" thing. Thank you very much for this link anyway. Awesome!
merveilleuxetmagique It's difficult to explain. I didn't understand it at first either.
Basically, the "secure contain protect" thing, which includes the "SCP" organization, is a fictional medium for which very elaborate and imaginative "artifact" profiles are written. Imagine Warehouse 13; SCP is like that, but much darker and way more terrifying (though, incredibly fascinating and sometimes hilarious).
agustrusher
Thanks to you, I've discovered one of the most intriguing website ever! By itself, it's like an alien object!! Very engrossing...
merveilleuxetmagique You are very welcome! ^ ^
I am so glad I could help!
Ok so, no one seems to get the story. What I got was maybe that humans had built a mechanical ecosystem and where studying it, one of the creatures had developed to a stage where it survived by absorbing other mechanical lifeforms, it develops curiosity (possibly from its most recent prey) and follows the light to where the humans are. When there it encounters two sentinel or operator drones who defend the humans and what seems to be there base, lab or refineing facility ( they might have been harvesting the mechanical life like a farm). The sentinel then absorbs the creature when it either recognises that it is out of place or it is simply it's job to collect the life forms for process. After doing this it falls victim to the life forms evolved ability to absorb and the sentinal and the facility are all soaked up like a sponge to create the creature we see. In effect the creators where destroyed after the created evolved in an unforeseen way.
Seems right.
Chameleon1616 they can continue the story that some humans survive and fight this creature..will be interesting . ..part 2.
Chameleon1616 That's on some I, Robot Ex Machina shit. Remind me to never buy that automatic vacuum cleaner
The description says so as well lol
Chameleon1616 well I think the thing in the sky is a fully evolved form of ohm capable of creating life
This felt like a fever dream. A true mind bender!
lol true!
that explains why I come across these films only when i'm sick XD
aye
I remember watching this years back and adoring it due to its unique stop motion style as well as the creature designs and post-apocalyptic environments. It's still great now as it was back then ;).
Edit: that lightbulb chicken/roadrunner is super adorable :3.
I was high as fuck when i watched this and i just had the worst trippy experience of my whole life.
CGI, VFX, and stop-motion
*Baby a triple*
I understand perfectly. This critter is really Gumby. This is the logical progression of Gumby, the ultimate changeling.
Wagen Drei
Wagen Drei so true XD
Watching this movie, I felt that every living creature on Earth is a miracle.
The machina angels were *man made*. Belief in god has nothing to do with it. This central creature had a a trait which was useful.. he absorbed abilities from the creatures he absorbed. The angels were designed by men to collect any useful rescources. The men used what was useful and then jettisoned the garbage. Unfortunately for the men.. upon being absorbed by the angels.. the creature took on their power.. growing and absorbing the useful rescources of the ship.. and then gazing upon the rest of the world.
Actually I thought they moved more like a mosquito
7SevenCurses7 God is real
They looked like dragon flies at first; then they transformed into the smoke brushes I have for photoshop and then finally into bizarre daddy-long-legs.
Childeater290 no it isn't.
@@hilaryc3203 yes it is and there is lots of evidence to prove it, just research
I searched for ambient short film and was not disappointed. This is the genre I hope to contribute to!
Best CGI Stop Motion Video I have ever seen!
Спасибо за великолепную короткометражку, авторам отлично удалось передать атмосферу на 10 из 10, что, к сожалению, редкость. Удачи вам в ваших последующих проектах!
My understanding: People are getting ready to leave planet Earth, but are picking up some minerals for the away trip. The steampunk robot wanted to go with, and was a lot tougher than humans built their butterfly thing to handle. The robot took possession of the whole ship from there, reshaping it in steampunkbot's image. The fate of the people aboard the ship is unknown, and (to SPR) irrelevant. If the film was meant to be creepy, (which I really hope it was) it worked really well.
a very thought provoking short film.
the main thought I had was "W.T.F"
same
+Shane Rooney lol
How could you possibly fail to note the underlying theme regarding the ailing trend in the Norwegian leather industry?
Good Lord.
it all make so much sense now!
now I just feel stupid.
+Just Liam whta??
Because of this video years ago, I make figures out of paper clips, springs, and wires out of broken cords.
Fantastic job creating a world that is both alien, but somehow identifiable.
I loved it.
Though at one point the film "2001: A Space Odyssey" came to mind. Not by the story or world but rather the visuals and experience one is given while watching the film.
As one of my favorite directors Stanley Kubrick said once, "A film is - or should be - more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later."
5:52 when I was a little kid and thought I was like a pro beatboxer.
Sure havent seen stop motion like this in a while, Salute the artists.. they must be gods or somethin
It is a bit unclear whether the sentinel / Ohm ended up killing humans in the process of the evolution, or if it was expected sooner or later, and part of a plan.
Great concept and followthrough though!
Edit: If any of you participating in this movie want more inspiration, check out SCP Foundation. So much creativity there, and a lot of mystery stuff that fits this well!
Stop motion pioneers, Willis O'Brian and Ray Harryhasen are smiling with approval.
Wow. I cant move until i see the end. So creepy and beutiful at the same time. I think there is a little bit of Tim Burton in it.
RIP Robot Ostrich m8, he was a top notch bloke.
The little Runnin creature had me in the first four seconds. Nice story.
i wish there was MORE!!!! once its was over i was like "wtf this can't be it!!!!!"
this is a fantastic piece of art work and it must of not been easy to create it! its amazing!
wow this felt and looked like a trip through somethings dream.
Something
Love how it was put together. Huge fan of CGI animations, couldn't help, but think robotic slenderman.
This compelled me. It's meant to provoke thoughts and ideas. And by the comments, it has succeeded. There is no right or wrong here, it is all about what you perceive it to be. That's what Sci-Fi is supposed to do, feed the dreamer.
I would be so lucky to create something as significant in my life time.
i was about to make the stupidest comment on this video....
*_AND THEN I READ THE DESCRIPTION_*
I recalled the works of Salvatore Dali while seeing this film; that's what came to my mind; a moving version of Dali's paintings. It's highly creative. Thank you.
Fantastic! Earth morphed into a metallic and insect life. Omega consumed the destroyers of the earth! Look forward to the sequel!
What is the sequel?
First we meet the Ohm.
The unit of resistance.
My question is Watt?
@Jason Lee You responded to a 4 year old comment to ask a dumb question?
Ahh, I see what you did there... Pretty clever my friend. Pretty clever indeed.😀
I sense a lot of tension in your question.
The CURRENT situation is clearly the beginnings of a reVOLT.
Extraordinary skill, imagination, and patience went into this animated film. The coordination of multiple centers of action is remarkable. Willis would have been impressed! Too bad that CGI has made this art form largely irrelevant for practical commercial film-making.
Alvin Hill
Remember that CGI is essentially the same thing
Yes, it is, Lord Geezmo, in the sense that it involves the creation of sequential images to simulate continuous motion; but those images are created in distinctly different ways! It's like comparing painting with sculpture.
Woah, thank you Evan and Andy for this labor of love.
Man, that last hit of acid was really good!
I would love to see this world interactively in a video game of some kind!
I don't care what it would cos me I would buy that game...
The CGI and Story concept are just mind blowing. Look forward to seeing more from you and maybe a feature length film in the future.
That was a good trip …
The organic mixed with the tech was genius.... 🐦
One word. Omegapoint.
This move shouldn't have been called 'OMEGA', it should have been called 'OMGWTF'
I need a Mata Nui for scale
If you understand this refrance than you're awesome.
Julie Brown Unity. Duty. Destiny!
YUS
Julie Brown this indeed a bit bionicle alike.
***** ooooooooooooooooh yeah, bionicle, i sorta miss that
Ohm evolved into Mega-Ohm... no?... ok..
Thank you for being wonderful thank you for the greatness you have in the world. Goodnight.
Concept and lighting just love this....
This is such a cool story and setting. I would like to see more stories come out of this world.
Why was I expecting a TOOL song to start playing at any moment
so cryptic... so frightening... so beautiful...
Loved the " The Mist" vibe of creatures scaling up to mind boggling enormity.
OMG! This is a crazy weird mixture of so called steam-punk, sci-fi, post-apocalypse and some else kind of psychotic fantasy. Very strange! So awesome amazing!
I love this type of animation it has a feeling to it
I need a full lenght movie. That's a really art of CGI cinematography. Pure gold.
What I got from this was how Mankind always takes. The humanoid creature that seems to be the protagonist represents man. Any and all light represents all that man desires; the creature chases all forms of light with longing. In the end, no matter how much it takes, mankind never has enough.
Spooky stunning food chain extravaganza.....
one hell of a parasite.
This was mind-boggling. Wow!
Back in 2024- this short feels like a wordless National Geographic movie.
I love it and the ideas for it's creatures and world
Stunning! I can only imagine the amount of time and work that it took to create this film. Thank you!
That was some of the most beautiful visual effects and animation I have seen in a long time, I liked that animators mixed stop motion and CG in a way that worked. My only critique would have been that the humanoid beings in gas masks looked very static compared to everything else - bit in general this was superb, whimsical and wonderfully creepy!!
Play Audiomachine's 'Fire and Honor' from 13:40 it'll give you goosebumps... Alternatively play 'The Dream is Collapsing' by Hans Zimmer (Inception Soundtrack) from 14:24 It's almost as if it was made for this 😃
I-I have no words.... This is just..... wow...
A real space trip without leaving my room! I too felt it hauntingly alien mixed with a touch of Tim Burton madness. Really nicely done!
He looked like an angel from Evangelion at the end
What I got from this is that the earth had become so barren that humans left the surface and decided to live in the air. Leaving machines to evolve and adapt becoming the beings we see in the film. The humanoid that absorbs things saw the white drones (that are the protectors of the ship and gather materials for it) and decided it wanted their powers (genes) because when it absorbs other machines it gets their parts. So it tracked them down, but the drones had the same powers and absorbed it. But a piece survived and consumed the drone getting a stronger absorbing power.
It is the Alpha and the Omega...beast to man
Better than the CG.
How is it better?
As good, but different.
Stop motion, when done right, is always better than cg. It takes time and dedication to make these type of movies.
chouji08
cgi takes time and dedication too, there is no quick way to make an animation
and cgi takes a lot of time and dedication to learn, I've been doing it for over 20 years and I'm still learning all the time.
*****
The textures have actual texture, not simulated. The lighting is real lighting, not simulated lighting. Genuine surface refracting genuine photons. Actual real-life models are what ray-traced models aspire to portray.
Computer rendered graphics are a solution to achieving visual effects that would otherwise be too complicated, too costly or too time consuming to do in real life. Whether it's actually better depends the creators, imo. Often CGI is used as a cheap alternative, with disappointing results.
I am in a constant state of mind flux over this. It was both fantastic and mentally challenging. You go along with your own development of what is going on, what it means, and then it takes you to an entirely different, unknown place where you have to adapt very quickly to the scene..."Now what is happening?" and you have to develop another quick model of what is going on. Personally, I loved it. I love new, imaginative things that I have never seen before and this very well satisfied that hunger. Bravo.
Did someone slip a hit of LSD into my video? Holy shit, that was awesome! Great job... one of the best and most unique indie films I have seen in a while!
Interesting short. An eery landscape with trippy mechanical creatures in a far out world. They seem to be evolving beyond their origin & create their own purpose.
this is incredible, the wole thing, the video quality, the meticulous editing, the frame rate... It is by far the most incredible animation i've ever seen, and beats mine to death.
"You must construct additional Py- WHAT THE HELL IS TH-! (Muffled robot noises)
Aaaaaaaaa
Nice starcraft ref
This deserves to be a movie
2024 and I still haven't forgotten what a masterpeace this is
It's creepy but amazing
so he was the Alex Mercer of his universe
welcome to the top of the food chain..
more like James Heller...
More like Hillary clinton
turkey feet what a treat, they taste so sweet their Magik meat. without their love I'd be incomplete. no other feet can compete with the delicious flavor of the turkey's feet.
Wall-e 2 has taken a dark turn.
I'm hoping on making my own films this is art very well done
Well, have fun. It will take you almost a year of work to create a 5 minute high quality video.
kappa guy lol that depends on how much animation your going to use the bigger the model the more part require movement for now I use use very small models it probably takes me 5-6 hrs to make vids it all depends how much your going to put in it my films are short you can make a really cool film in short time like I said it depends on the model size parts movement and the animation you use the sound fx and visuals are always last it's fun but for now I won't make and have no plans for a tim burtons a nightmare before Christmas lol.
All the visuals are pristine- but it was so slow moving (event wise) at times I was bored
Yes, slow pacing can be achieved this way, but when I make my animations slow paced I am building to a pay off - especially when it's a narrative.
crank the speed up.
Spectrumpicture
Stunning, could watch a feature length film of this. The ambiance was like a beautiful fever dream
Top tier sound design, completely works without music
so either another planet, or post-apocalypse earth, and the small one infected the man made robot, and consumed the ship to become a god?
BINGO
it represents the state of the stop motion industry as the nasty new cgi comes in, 13:00 to suck the life out of movies creativity ;_;
This is what happens if all evolution were mechanical
WOW! The new half life 3 looks great!
stunning. Don't take any notice of simplistic comments that talk about not understanding it or not following the story. Those people are looking for mickey mouse like story lines that keep them entertained. This is a visually stunning work of art. Well done!!
Then enlighten us "simple minds"
+RJ Richardson Well there isn't really any way to describe it. It's abstract. It doesn't have a real story of it's own and it doesn't really need one. It tells the viewer what it is through strange visuals and doesn't want to hold your hand. It's leaving the story up to your imagination so for all these comments saying "I don't get it", there's really nothing to get. I know that probably sounds pretentious and hipstery as fuck, but that's just my take on it.
9:40
From this backside angel, Omega looks like XenoMorph.
9:48
It appears that Omega is having a Pre Monition of his full extent when it shall control space and time!
Personally, to me, Omega with no face and urge to consumer other mechanical objects always appeared a Psychopath! Make more videos like these!
Well, this was definitely weird and that's why I liked it! 😀
Leaked footage of toy story 5 Sid comes back to play. Rated R
Bro this might actually be that XD
I wonder if machines , would become aware of themselves,if humans were gone!? It's a beautiful short film!!!!
Stunning film. Once criticism is that i lost a lot of interest once it moved away from stop motion and into cg
+Harry D. Same
+Harry D. meh, didn't bothered me none. To tell the story that the author was trying to convey, the CG effects that was used were probably necessary.
Funny, that's when my interest intensified.
the sound design is incredible
Beautiful and haunting.
i really love the atmosphere and post apocalyptic aesthetic as well as the whole world and environment and all these unique robotic creatures!