Tomas probably has some of the worst 3D workflows and techniques that you have ever seen. He has to in order to produce the work that he does. You see, Tomas creates 3D animation as quickly and as badly as he can- and then shares them with the world.
If you have been doing 3D graphics for any length of time, then you may remember the online repository displaying all the horrific rendering, animation, and character skinning errors that can crop up during 3D production. The Gallerie Abominate was all that, in addition to just plain terrible work.
The Early Wild West of 3D
you had high end 3D applications that cost thousands of dollars, that didn’t even offer an undo command
A long time ago when 3D applications were just getting started it was not unlike the wild west. On the one hand you had high end 3D applications that cost thousands of dollars, that didn’t even offer an undo command. On the other hand there were actually very few places (if at all) where you could get training in 3D modeling, rendering and 3D animation.
This fostered many, many hobbyists who were learning the ropes on their own as they went along. Learning by largely discovering what works and what doesn’t work, and how to create the best work with the hobbyist applications that were at hand.
Some got better at their craft and some did not. This lead to The Gallerie Abominate’s popularity, in being filled with some terrible, terrible attempts at 3D. Absolutely terrible, and most were undeniably hysterical.
Really 3D!
Hysterical is what went through my mind when I first set eyes on the Really 3D channel on youtube. Really 3D is the handy work of a 24 year old computer sciences student, Tomas who posts his animations on various themes as terrible as he can make them – with hilarious results.
Starting Out
Tomas was never trained as an artist or 3D, although he always had an interest in it as a child. Tomas enjoyed working in Adobe Photoshop when he was younger, and started to create his own Counter Strike maps and animations while learning Autodesk’s 3D Studio Max.
Working with a his slow PC Tomas was able to make a lot of 3D animations over the years, firmly invested in his hobby.
Tomas himself admits that he grew into his hobby to the point where his animations weren’t terrible, they were actually pretty good. However, working on a very slow PC is not without its frustrations.
the images reminded him of the 3D work common in the early 90’s and his childhood
The Spark
One particular day Tomas’ frustration with his slow PC grew to the point where he tried to create and render out an animation using the standard scan-line renderer in 3ds to save time. He had enough of V-ray and Mental Ray on that old and clunky PC – they were far too slow.
In seeing the rendered output from those scan-line renders with no shadows, bad lighting, and as Tomas mentions “were just plain ugly”.
Although that didn’t give him the results he was looking for, the images reminded him of the 3D work common in the early 90’s and his childhood. That gave him the spark of an idea to see if he could make completely terrible 3D animations on purpose.
Really 3D Lives
So Tomas set to work to create a “terrible” animation featuring sonic the hedgehog and posted it online. To his surprise people responded quite well to it, and so the Really 3D channel was born. Since then Tomas has created quite a few animations on the channel regularly, and they have been well received.
Tomas creates timely animations almost as if they were ripped from the headlines that range from the Real Flappy Bird in 3D, to Breaking Bad, Daft Punk, The Simpsons, and a terrifying Miley Cyrus animation that cannot be unseen.
Really 3D Around the Web
Really 3D Elsewhere
Tomas is also currently taking donations in order to continue developing his entertaining videos, that will go towards the purchase of a new and faster computer – if you are so inclined you can help out here : http://www.patreon.com/Really3D
