tvining opened this issue on Jul 16, 2006 ยท 87 posts
skeetshooter posted Fri, 27 October 2006 at 5:03 PM
Tvining, that's terrific work, and what impressed me as much as your Poser work was the obvious care, thought and effort that you took to storyboard the thing before you started 3D production. That's very polished scene and camera management, and what seems so far like a great script! I'm a rank amateur by comparison, but the reason for my special interest is that I have been working since July on a 7-minute superhero cartoon (albeit with high detail), and that I'm using the same set of tools: Poser on a Mac Pro Quad, exporting the frames as TIFFs and then doing the finishing in Final Cut Pro (and Soundtrack), with Photoshop to handle some image and post-work. I have the an almost identical audio setup as well. I used Frameforge 3D to do the storyboarding, which I highly recommend if you don't already use it and can spring for it. I tried to use Poser's own movie and animation functions for the video, but my figures were too complex and the preview scene and motion checks, not to mention final rendering, were taking way too long. Plus, Poser 6 is still clunky at video animation. So I went the TIFF-images-for-frames route and I can even export in HD from Final Cut if I want. This also works well because I'm only using 12 frames per second. On the other hand, I could REALLY use Poser 7, with its universal binary code for Mac and lots of other goodies for animators (including multiple undoes!) RIGHT NOW! Good luck. I've learned a lot from watching your first segment and your explanations. I'll be sure to check in regularly and to share "Sudden Sam and His Superfriends" when it's done. SS