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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts25 Sep 2006 -
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25 Sep 2006Not just any ape hype, a censored ape... They're very sensitive so you dont want to kick em.
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25 Sep 2006HAHAHA! i was reading your post, Cam, and hadn't scrolled down the whole way, then, BAMM!
nice! that ape is just BEGGING to be kicked!! -
25 Sep 2006mate, I had to resize that picture. That ape is sooo big that pic was like 3000x6000 pixels
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kick me hype ....make my day.
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26 Sep 2006i'm gonna kick the ape and he's gonna explode in a bloodbath!
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts26 Sep 2006may i do his blood bath? LOL can i also make it green
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts27 Sep 2006
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27 Sep 2006ok, i didn't get much done tonight, since i didn't get home until almost 11pm. but i got started. here's some geometry line-up, and i've just got started retouching the BG photo to look wet and rainy. I started in photoshop, but then realized i could work much faster and better in AE, so i imported my layered psd as a comp.
in the 3d Animation thread, i'm gonna put some old water stuff i did, to kind of show where i'm at with cg liquids. i'm gonna learn alot on this one! can't wait! any questions, ask away, but i'm certainly not doing anything hard yet. -
27 Sep 2006yep yep yep, getting exciting!!!
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts27 Sep 2006looking great hype maty one thing i am notcing is the trees but ur propably aware of that issue a feather might fix it or destory it any way i am watching this to the end
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29 Sep 2006ok, slight update. I got the camera mapping done tonight, and did a first try at the reactor stuff. of course, it looks goofy. in fact, it may cause an epileptic seizure, so view at your own risk. this particular reactor take sucks, and i will be re-doing it.
A regular camera move to show what the camera mapping did.
it's kinda neat, turning a still picture into a 3d environment.
http://www.mackdadd.com/CG/water/camera_map_01.mov
here's the breaking up of the bridge, but really crappy.
http://www.mackdadd.com/CG/water/break-apart_01.mov
here's a screw up on my first try.
http://www.mackdadd.com/CG/water/reactor_screwup_01.mov
sheesh, i just wanna get to the water!! -
mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts29 Sep 2006wow which i know how to do that great start cants imagen the final thing yet which is good making it a suprise
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30 Sep 2006
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30 Sep 2006That looks really cool so far man, I can't wait to see the final!
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30 Sep 2006The first animation you could project the background image on a plain and that way the background would move with the scene.
great stuff man.
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30 Sep 2006kilroy - yeah, you're right, i certainly could, but i'm going to do it in AE because I want to use a still image, but add alot of cloud motion into it. that's super easy in AE.
here's an update.
http://www.mackdadd.com/CG/water/water_scene_01.mov
the general scene is finally coming together. i scrapped my epileptic reactor pass, and got the original picture modified enough that it looks muggy and wet outside. got some motion in the trees, but chances are they'll be hidden behind rain, maybe some fog, and a little atmospheric haze (not too much, though)
next i'll be breaking up the road again, this time using particles. then I'll add some details (bridge railing, road sign, etc), throw in some rain, run my big kick-butt water simulation, do a final camera animation, and then it's into AE for the rest of it.
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30 Sep 2006very cool hype! Tree movement is a bit much imo......but like you said, itll probably be obscured. Can't wait to see where this one goes!
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30 Sep 2006That would be geat if you have a spare few mins one day and whack a tutorial about the camera mapping - the im very curious about the train you mentioned, sounds pretty cool.
Thanks for the info man.
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01 Oct 2006yeah, right now i'm going with the assumption that it's going to behind fog, rain, blah blah blah, so i exaggerated it a bit. i can always turn it down later.
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01 Oct 2006carnegie mellon can do camera mapping better, and ALL automatically!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuoljANz4EA&eurl= -
01 Oct 2006yeah i just cant wait till this stuff gets out of the universities and into applications ! . i remember seeing a tracking/roto application being produced by a university that was able to track a shaky cam shot to a stable shot that were taken at 2 different time intervals . which allows for getting a clean bg plate on a shot with a moving camera without the hassle of painting out and tracking every few frames all you have to do is shoot the same scene later without the prop or actor. it was able to take some really extreme displacements into consideration while tracking and adjuting the shakey footage.
edit:check it out: http://people.csail.mit.edu/sand/vid-ma ... -match.mpg -
01 Oct 2006wow, Franklyn, that was awesome! that would SO help what i do! everyday i have to do stuff like that, but all manually! that was absolutely amazing!
the closest commercial application i can think of that does some of those tricks is Mokey
http://www.mokey.com/products/mokey/
but mokey really has trouble with shots that weren't specifically designed for it. if you watch some of their tutorials, it looks amazing, but to actually use it to get results like that is REALLY hard. i tried using it for a production once and it pretty much couldn't do it. -
01 Oct 2006wow that was so sweet what program is doing that gime gime.
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01 Oct 2006it isnt available for public use i think its being developed by MIT.
they have some more vids on their site http://people.csail.mit.edu/sand/vid-match/
here are some other things they have worked on http://people.csail.mit.edu/sand/
edit: http://people.csail.mit.edu/sand/skin-cap/skin_web.mpg
:O!
oh and sorry for hi-jacking your thread hype
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01 Oct 2006Waw, that's one hell of a software aint it? Waw - thanks for sharing Franklyn
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01 Oct 2006no problem, Franklyn! in fact, i love it!
this is what its all about, this forum... learning! i had no idea my little dabbling into camera mapping was gonna produce all this! but i'm sure as hell glad it did!
now we just gotta get them to release that software! (for under $10,000!)
speaking of sand....
http://chir.ag/stuff/sand/ -
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02 Oct 2006<3 glu3d its easy to use, hard to master lookin good hype, the rain looks especially nice, pflow?
ps: that shaky cam vid franklyn showed had my jaw onthe floor, so did that carnegie mellon one, i cant wait to get my hands o nthose!!! -
03 Oct 2006yep, pflow rain. i did actually try a first pass with the spray system, but compared to pflow it just feels like you have no control over it.
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04 Oct 2006
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04 Oct 2006OOOHHHH YEEAAHHH!!! This is gonna be awsome man! Really looking forward seeing the end product on this baby.
I really like the way the debris floats/slides away really got that one down very well, it'll look sweet with water bashing itno it. The only minor crit i have is that the big debris floats off first and the last one to go is that small ish one - if you could have the big ass chunk floating away very slowly last, that would be great - just my 2 cents.
Great job man!
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts04 Oct 2006hey that looks so cool
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05 Oct 2006
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05 Oct 2006HALF HOUR PER FRAME??????? YOU CRAZY!
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05 Oct 2006yeah, hahaha... there's alot of particles in there, tho! and i even turned the level of detail down to about 3 (default is 6 - twice as many particles!) anything for simplyCG, baby!
imagine how angry i'm gonna be if i get home and find my computer crashed.
all this processing, and it's still probably gonna just look like bad CG water.
T - aren't you using blobmesh? i know that ain't processing fast!
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05 Oct 2006Heh.....well I think I may be out at this point....max won't stop crashing when I try to render with blobmesh, no matter what I try!
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05 Oct 2006you should try pwrapper from glu3d it worked really well with my small test scene .
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