madriver opened this issue on Jun 06, 2002 ยท 7 posts
madriver posted Thu, 06 June 2002 at 5:23 PM
Attached Link: http://d-studios.net/web.ZIP
This is a work-in-progress trailer and I'd like to get some feedback from forum members on animation (or lack thereof), music, lighting, anything. ANNA FURY is an upcoming web series that will be streamed for free viewing this summer. Programs used: poser, cinema 4d, after effects 5, premiere 6, Illusion 2. The zip is about 4 megs, trailer runs about 2 minutes. Windows Media Player version 7 required. When we begin streaming the show, what's the streaming media of choice out there: windows, real, quicktime or DIVX 5? Taking an informal poll...Thanks in advance!--J.
egrafx posted Tue, 11 June 2002 at 9:07 PM
Attached Link: http://egrafx-design.com
when i downloaded your web.zip file I got a 0 k zip file. I'd love to see your animation. I am also working on a series using just about the same software. i have a 4 and 18min movie on the web. I use quicktime streaming with sorenson 3 compression. the file size for the 18 min movie is 13mb at 560/260. I'm on a mac but most of my viewers are on pc and have no problem with qucktime
madriver posted Wed, 12 June 2002 at 8:43 PM
Hey, watched your videos. Great work. I know how hard it is to do even simple animations. I especially liked the new one, Dark Raven. Is C4D your main rendering package?
madriver posted Wed, 12 June 2002 at 8:44 PM
btw, not suggesting your animations are simple, they aren't Obviously a lot went into making them---I'm just tired and not thinking all that clearly...
egrafx posted Wed, 12 June 2002 at 9:07 PM
All animations are simple...yea we wish :-) Thanx. C4D is my main package. I do all my rendering in it. i don't bother texturing my poser figures in poser. i do it in C4D cause you have so much more control. I use bryce also and occasionaly when it works Strata StudioPro (it ain't OS X savvy). It makes great tileable textures How long did it take you to make your trailer
madriver posted Wed, 12 June 2002 at 9:46 PM
It took about a month but felt like 6. I think it will get easier as I work on it more.
4096 posted Wed, 19 June 2002 at 4:44 AM
Cool animations, especially 'dark raven'. You might want to work on the camera movement a bit though. (vs having the camera dead still for 3 seconds, then moving or tracking some object, and ending the shot with the camera perfectly still again for 3 sec.) The trick is to have smooth and continual camera movement throughout each shot. In live film, it's impossible to hold the camera perfectly still, you have to emulate this in order to make your film look more realistic. A slight pan or a slight zoom will do the trick; I always render slightly oversize and fake camera movement in After Effects... It'll make your work look a hell of a lot more professional and doesn't take that much effort once you make it a habit.