MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

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some guy in LA managed to steal one for a few hours

you could do some basic cloning, using any major compositor but this only works upt to a point, i know what you mean by "many".

Otherwise you could use your 2 people make low poly cg replicas and use a crowd creation software.

bittorrent is not against the rules being mentioned by itself, as there is plenty of legit uses for torrent.

maya has the best particles, and dynamics that seems to be what your hinting at,

I'm leaning more for the learning curve. I don't plan on going into CG animation, but just want ot be able to produce stuff for my films, which is a hobby for me. Based on your personal opinion, 1. Which program has th ebetter interface? Reasonable and easy to follow. (For example, I can sit down a...

doingt the effects on your own would be rotoscoping every detail. im sorry but in a real production environment, if 2 things make equally good results, they go with the quicker option. I mean why would i spend hours trying rotoscope lightsabers in AE when i can do it quicker with equally good result...

anything with the alamdv label on it will suck. yes dv3 will be better but it still wont be capable of producing effects that someone can watch and actually believe it. dont go bashing a program you obviously have no experiance using, dv2 is fairly primitive yes but if you look at the cinema it can...

3ds max is not more widely used than maya, maybe on games but not on film

its really preference, in my opinion the best bang for the buck right now is softimage xsi www.softimage.com, you can get the advanced version for 295$ if your a student, and it alos comes with a 100,000 character crowd simulator, look in the massive armies thread and i go more into detail. But here...

almdv2, well your right it wasnt that great but dv3 is gonna be a hel of alot better.

o damn

sonnyboo.com has it i think along with the fbi one.

i got xsi student for 295$ which is the same thing as xsi advanced(6500$) it just cant be used ina commercial environment. Behavior came with it along with a tut dvd, heres some info on behavior. http://www.softimage.com/products/behavior/v2/

im the one i3lade is talkin about, i use softimage xsi student which is basically the advanced version which includes behavior, which is the same type of program as massive. It can simulate 100,000 actors all with "intelliegance". The most of done was 500 piggy wigglys running toward pre s...

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you could also perhaps do this entire movie machinima(sp?) the red vs blue stuff used ti quite well.

pacer lead (those really thin leads that go in refillable pencils)

I must be captain obvious

thats much better done live, or in a compositing software such as combustion or ae hell even premiere might be able to pull it off.

iv got a 50 caliber machine gun life size replica that i mounted on the back of my pickup truck, its in the basement now but i can remount if you guys need me to.

indeed, my workstation is linux entirely but for the other 3 computers in the house, my gaming,my moms, my bros iv used the same wxp disc on all em, i mean its only illegal if microsoft catches you.

i think he could pull this off, but for like alot of the aliens he might have do do stop motion combined with backround plates.

And the aliens shoot plasma, right? good luck pulling that off. Id be willing to help you with cg or something if you need it my aim is
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the softimage xsi student version for 295$ comes with behavior, it can do almost the same thing as massive, but its got a 100,000 actor limit DAMN! it reuiqres some scripting knowledge but xsi, you can script in many langauages all which are used in another field besides 3d like jscript,python,perl ...

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get firefox.

combustion is very complex it takes about a month to learn and cg bullet hits usually look like cr**.