Once you learn After Effects well enough you'll know that you don't want to do everything in After Effects. One can edit with it, of course, but at the risk of your own sanity.

Best to rough cut your project in Premiere or Final Cut know your scene length to the frame. Render only what's needed and build the effect scene in AE. 

Does no one work in fields anymore? If so, you'll want to consider rendering at field rate. 

Most players here play NTSC and Pal, in the US you'll want to make sure its NTSC. 

I don't use Roxio but you want to keep all animation uncompressed right up until the moment the DVD program does its own compression. Otherwise your losing generations. 

 I've certainly been tempted to post my ancient attempts to reverse-engineer Frank's paintings. Mostly to show how great his paintings are, not mine (as they would clearly prove) ; )

But there have been enough people  ahead of me doing that already. 

I met Boris, once, many years ago. A new guy on the illustration scene, I was a bit rankled that he would so clearly step on Frank's territory. But he was just trying to do what many of us wanted; to carry the torch into the next generation. 

Whether its new to us or not, there are always new people and they like the feeling that the subject is newly discovered/invented even if it is only being experienced by themselves. 

At least, that's always been true for me and I'm just like other people. : )

 Whether it's the Matrix-spin, bullet-time, jumping to Light-speed or even
Alfred Hitchcock's dolly-in while zooming out effect
they will lose their surprise once you've seen them.

Even reality, while completely mind-blowing when experienced for the first time becomes just another day once you've been around the sun a few times.
You're asking yourself, *what next? 

*While there are people working overtime to come up with something you might find stimulating, others are betting it isn't going to be in a movie.

We've seen a slew of reality shows created to break the predictability of the dramatized script and a massive growth in games to erradicate the passive nature of watching. 

After that it all just becomes Sports or watching Sports. And the cycle of More/Better/Different continues in the fashion cycle of entertainment.*

 Yeah Larry F. I had a similar class. At a time when a lot of illustration used flat colors I was dazzled by his old school painting style. I (like a lot of college students, I guess) taught myself to paint by trying to recreate some of my favortie paintings of his. 

Holding the picture up to a mirror was one of those visual tricks we used to break our mental image from the painting so we could see how the balance was really working. Good trick.

Frazetta wasn't just about the paint, although that was his delivery system, I thought he really packed a lot of story-telling into every aspect of his characters, another talent I admire.

I'm glad he has been so well remembered and his passing has not gone unnoticed.

Thanks for sharing the sentiments.

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Corporate would go to the haute couture fashion shows, make a purchase, bring back a garment and tell us to "knock it off". It was not only legal, but a huge part of their business.
lululee

Just to underscore lulu and parkdale, its a practice in many businesses. Industrial espionage is here to stay. 
Movies like "Snakes on a Train",  "Transmorphers" and "30,000 Leagues Under the Sea" are all capitalizing on the existence of the original but couldn't replace or exist without the source.

Fugazi's original thread subject (funny considering the meaning of your login name and Simpson-style avatar) (oh, I mean that lol-funny not suspiciously-hypocritical-funny) (but I digress)

I don't know which products you mean specifically, that's OK. I did buy a morph that clearly was meant to be Dame Judy and while it is a really good older female morph and texture always have qualms using it because it is so her. 

To me, there is nothing wrong with riding the stream in the direction that the market is flowing.

In the computer biz, on the internet, there's just a lot of plain out and out thievery. They know it. They don't care. They are in it for the money not the character-building-Ayn-Rand-reading-ethics of knowing themselves as a creator of an original idea.

I, too, have to earn money but I can't drop what I'm doing and start modeling scimitars just because Prince of Persia is going to open.  But seeing it now in print doesn't seem like such a bad idea. 

OK, maybe the horse is dead, I'll stop. : )
 
 

 Yeah, 3D and all computer imaging is ruining Hollywood motion pictures. Did Birth of a Nation or Trip to the Moon need CGI? No, it didn't even need sound or COLOR!!! We should get back to the good old days of making movies and stop using all this technology. In fact we shouldn't even use cameras. They ruin the experience of performance and the business of acting. Instead of paying artists to work seven days a week laboring on effects they should be hiring more actors to perform Avatar live in each city. Those computer people are only trying to trick you out of your money while they sit for days/months in their fancy Aeron wheel-chairs pretending that they do it for the enjoyment of others. If they think its so great they should do it for free.
I know a lot of producers would agree with me about the last part. 

(end of sarcasm)

Of course the illusion "wears off". It has to disappear for the movie to work. You don't sit there aware of watching 24 still photographs flash by each second. If you did you would never get involved with the story. 

Do be clear I'm not trying to elevate Dr. Tongue's 3-D House of Pancakes as high art. But I am surprised to hear such a negative outlook on the biz inside a forum for computer graphics. 
 

 Like many people, I have been inspired by his work. Tried my best to learn from him and still find myself in awe of his sense of color and proportion. I thank him for how he unintentionally influenced us while just doing his thing. 

I'm sad to hear that he is gone.

 "turn off" within Vue is what you mean? Yes, it always prompts me with "Your video card sucks, turn off (this and that) so that Vue will run smoother "you Mac-scum" or that's what I seem to hear it say.
lol

I don't know anything about "flashing" a card. I will have to make do with what I have for the moment.

thanks,

don

 Hey JC (et al),

Also finally upped my Infinite 5 to Infinite 8.4. Still quite new to the Vue experience.

I'm running it on my MacBook Pro 5,1 with a NVidia GeForce 9400M.
I get the warnings from Vue that my card is not up to snuff and yet I seem to muddle through without much apparent problems. Some of that could be that "I don't know what I'm missing".

Will be interested to hear what you or others arrive at for the solution to a better Mac graphics card.

BTW, I was considering upgrading to Xstream to use with my Lightwave 9.6. I seem to remember you didn't have a good Xstream experience, is that still true? 
Or is there anyone here who has a good experience with Xstream in 8.x who wants to sing its praises (on a Mac)?

thanks,

don

 From a Vue 5 Infinite perspective I have wanted to upgrade for a while because most Vue materials coming my way won't work in V5Inf. 

I hear your strategy for keeping the money. As you said, whatever it is you're trying to say with pictures, it not like Vue 6 will be so archaic looking. 

Thanks for the feedback.

 Musi,

Would you mind posting your results in this thread?

I'm in/or near the same boat, considering the upgrade and pretty much convinced from their specs that Vue 8 will only run well on a MacIntel. 

The G5 might run Vue 8 but it may seem very slow. This is the case with Poser 8 on a G5. It runs but sluggishly. One the MacIntel Poser 8 runs very nicely. 

Thanks,

Don

 Thanks for the suggestions. Disk Utility had already been run.

So far, trashing the pref folder seemed to do the trick. Don't know what could have gone wrong in there then that now it is OK with. Time will tell.

Plus  P8.sr2 also ran OK with the old P8.sr1 prefs. 

Anyway, fresh new generated prefs, its running again...for now.

Thanks again.

 Poser 8 sr 2 
on a
MacIntel 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo
 RAM: 2 gig
OS 10.5.8

Installed SR2 a couple of days ago I remember it running quite well with some (as promised) improved performance in the IDL department. Yesterday is not the problem.

Today, it crashes on start-up Everytime!  : (

Anyone have a similar problem or can guess what could be causing this?

Thanks for any help.

Quote - The tracker would only work if we are moving forward or backward in AE. Anything else that involves a camera in AE would also rotate the Poser scene.

To be sure, the Poser output should not be subject to the movement of another camera that is set to match the Poser camera. 

With that premise you should be able to move your Poser camera forward, sideways, anything you desire. 

 It seems there is always someone writing camera conversion scripts from App-A to App-B. I don't know of one by name but chances are high there is a script out there.

What might be more helpful than the above statement is my suggestion for working in the other direction. Do your Poser Cam first and match it in AE using motion tracker. 

Hope one of those two things help. ; )