Odd *cough cough*) that don’t get the recognition I feel they deserve. There are so many underrated songs (and albums *cough cough* Pretty. Not many people are familiar with the earlier works of Panic! At The Disco other than I Write Sins, Not Tragedies. Panic! At The Disco has been doing pretty well lately as far as their (or should I say “his”) music getting more recognition with the release of their most recent album, “Death of A Bachelor.” It is a wonderful album which I personally love.īut alas, this post is to take you all back to a time when Panic! actually had members other than my precious Beebo (Brendon Urie). If you haven’t heard that, surely you’ve at least heard of “This is Gospel,” another one of their most popular songs from the album, “Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die.” It’s the subject of many emo memes (as is “I Write Sins.”) everywhere. The only way you wouldn’t have had any exposure to at least the catchy chorus to that song, is if you’ve been living under a rock for the past ten or so years. Everyone knows them for that one song about a guy who gets mad because no one has the common courtesy to close the goddamn door (“I Write Sins, Not Tragedies”). I’m sure you’ve heard of Panic! At The Disco before or at least heard one of their songs. It makes Corona the best render solution for our studio.Welcome back, testosterone boys and harlequin girls (and any others who I, unfortunately, don’t have a kickass reference for) to my lame, emo blog.
“From the production point of view, the cost of Corona’s license is really attractive and we didn’t even need to get the demo version to try it – we purchased the full license straight away! The interactive renderer allowed us to keep track of the project with the artists and present great previews to the client. Mario Pece, the creative director at StratoStorm As for the render passes, it would be nice to have a velocity render pass in the future to be able to add motion blur in the compositing, and „render to texture” feature. Some of the most exciting things we would love to see in the future of Corona development is the ability to render openVDB, Hair and Fur, and Ornatrix. It is also awesome that there is virtually no need to alter default render settings, but at the same time you have the ability to adjust more advanced settings when needed. The features we loved the most, besides the interactive render, are the ability to render a wide range of compositing passes, rendering speed, Embree-aided rendering, and multithreaded parsing. There was a short deadline and 56 full CGI shots to get done, but thanks to the interactive rendering feature, our artists were able to achieve good-looking renders and complete all the work in a short period of time. “We started using Corona Renderer for Panic! At The Disco’s new music video and it was definitely a game changer for us.
Check out StratoStorm’s impressions on working with Corona! São Paulo-based studio StratoStorm used Corona to produce over 50 CGI shots for an optical illusion-inspired Panic! At The Disco music video for their song “Hallelujah”.