How the hell did they put that movie together at the PoseAmation site. I have Poser and Bryce and would really like to know how to animate my Poser figures in Bryce. Can anyone help me?

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That movie was pretty awsome. You can't animate your figures in bryce, but you can use an application like adobe premiere, after effects or final cut pro to layer your poser animations ontop of your bryce scenes. render your poser scenes at whatever size, 320x240 pixel or 640x 480 pixels (full screen). if on a mac use millions of colors + with jepg compression at about 95-100%, if on a pc render with uncompressed frames, and make sure you background is black, no images. This will create the movie with an alpha (transparency) channel so you can layer your scenes ontop of each other. with smart placement and a filter or two no one will know the difference. check out samples at my site eric

Thanks for that eric. I had a feeling that you were going to tell me something like that. Call it faint hope. You have an awesome site. Have you ever thought of using video streaming?

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Thanx. I have tried streaming using both quicktime and realplayer. realplayers image qualtiy was very bad and very small in image size. quicktime has tremendously better quality and size when compressed with media cleaner pro, but requires a quicktime streaming web server for optimal performance, and for a large movie with lots of viewings, that can be expensive. eric

Mocap, I tried to have a look at the file you attached the link for but I just get a 404 error, file not found. I have a copy of Lumiere Video Studio it also does QuickTime 3 movies, so I know what you mean now, but I would really like to see the animation.

That came out sounding wrong. It not a technique I have tried, but would like to see the movie so I know how it looks.

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I have tried importing bryce quicktime movies into poser and it works well. But the draw backs are if you want to animate several figures in a scene it can be machine intensive. Using the bryce movie as a refernce and rendering each character individualy gives you more scene control so you can tweek a character or motion later without rerendering all the figures. There are several filters in both after effects and premiere that can be applied to the bryce movies, or panoramas, (saves tons of render time using large bryce images in after effects for zooms and pans) and alpha channeled poser movies to enhance them

Hi, I made the PoseAmation trailer with Poser 3 using Bryce renderings in the background right in Poser. This works great unless the characters need to interact with the scenery or if you want shadows to animate over the 3D background. Chris