Attached Link: Zomebie Test

As mentioned in my earlier post, I'm putting a little Live Action/ CGI short film together. To test some of the ideas for combinging live and cgi action, I shot this little test last weekend. You'll note there's a missing zombie that I'll add later. I threw a cheesy live recorded sound track on their to cover up my crappy foley work which I really haven't put much into at this point.

The file is under 8MB and mgp format. Give me some feedback. Tell me how terrible Poser is for this sort of animation, anything. In the actual short I'm scripting now, I hope to use an exported Poser animation for my characters and render them in Studio Max.

Regards,
Brent

Ok... I feel like a complete gimp here. MediaPlayer complained about the Codec...well, fine, I'll just load it up in QuickTime I thought and I got another error. Hmmm... What codec did you use for this? I'm really interested in seeing it:) ~ brent, er, um... the other brent :) ~

Ummm, I think it's just mpeg 4. I'll post an alternate version next time I update it. I'll probably work on it a bit tonight and then upload it tommorrow. If you happen to have a dvd player software like PowerDVD, I'm sure that will run it. Regards, Brent

Ah, your name is Brent?

Yes it is:) I tried loading the mpeg up in After Effects (overkill I know, but I wanted to try:) with no luck. I've got PowerDVD, but it isn't installed here at the office. I guess I'll try again tonight from the house. But if you do get around to the alternate version that would be great too. ~ brent ~

It plays fine in PowerDVD. I'd recommend TMPGEnc, a freeware MPEG encoder, for better compatibility with Windows Media Player, QuickTime, and other video players. You really should find a way to incorporate ground shadows into your compositing efforts. Sure, it's more work, but it will allow a much wider range of camera angles.

...or try to create a "weetabix theatre" set of the area to place your zombie in, using any of the free or cheap sets (I quite like DAZ's Multiplane Cyclorama, but for no specific reason). That'd give you some ground shadows and free up the camera a bit. I suspect that you've got is an mpeg2 video stream with mpeg3 audio. Windows doesn't support Mpeg2 without PowerDVD or similar - but mpeg1 is fine (though with limited resolution). Why the second shot at "the distant ground"? I'd have missed with the 1st shot and nailed him with a second. But then - I don't have the full script :)