Is Here (Youtube)

Not terribly spectacular I know but I'm rather pleased with it.
The post processing was done in Nuke (not mine - a friend of mine does a lot of freelance work and he has a copy which he kindly let me play with.  Nuke is seriously complicated!)

I can't tell what it is. It's dark on my monitor. It kinda looks like something made of steel is sliding into place.

it's actually just the sun moving over the top of Stonemasons Ministry :)

Oh.
How long did the whole project take?
and how long to render?

is that 80 frames total ? (wild guess)

nicely done!  not too dark over here, but it did help knowing what I was looking at =D

Want a slightly simpler method of working with your animation?  try here:

http://www.virtualdub.org/

its free =D

I dunno how you rendered it out - if you did to .avi or if you pieced an image sequence together, but virtualdub does both =D  btw- if you render to avi and have to pause or vue crashes, you lose the entire file.  if you render it sequentially, you end up with a LOT of images to deal with, but its easier to pick up where you left off if you need to pause (or vue has a cow... and not a render cow).

once again, great work =D

Quote - Oh.
How long did the whole project take?
and how long to render?

is that 80 frames total ? (wild guess)

An hour or so to set up + tweak the textures, 2 hrs or so to render it and about another hour fiddling around in Nuke and it's 100 frames dead :)

Quote - I dunno how you rendered it out - if you did to .avi or if you pieced an image sequence together, but virtualdub does both =D  btw- if you render to avi and have to pause or vue crashes, you lose the entire file.  if you render it sequentially, you end up with a LOT of images to deal with, but its easier to pick up where you left off if you need to pause (or vue has a cow... and not a render cow).

Rendered it out to a .mov file actually.  I still have to figure out how to do the whole image sequence thing (time I read the manual I guess!)

What was actually the part of nuke in this? Looks quite good, but what was nuke used for?

There's a great shadow play, Frank.
Does virtualdub run on Win7 and Vista? Looked like deadware last time I checked it....
And, yes, Frank, render to image sequences next time, you never know why Vue crashes in the middle of the night sometimes...

Nuke did the animated blur and glow effects (not much basically)

this is what he site says, first paragraph:

"VirtualDub is a video capture/processing utility for 32-bit and 64-bit Windows platforms (98/ME/NT4/2000/XP/Vista/7), licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).  It lacks the editing power of a general-purpose editor such as Adobe Premiere, but is streamlined for fast linear operations over video.  It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters.  VirtualDub is mainly geared toward processing AVI files, although it can read (not write) MPEG-1 and also handle sets of BMP images....."

so... am guessing its NOT deadware, as Windows 7 is still reallllly new.  =D

Oh, cool, Melikia, last time I checked it, a few months ago, they were only listing 32 bit XP.
Glad it's still alive.
Thanks a lot.

no prob, Bruno =D - i went and double-checked, just to make sure... i love this little program and i, too, am glad it'll be able to follow me when i can upgrade from XP64 LOL