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- Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:17 am
- Forum: Stunts, Physical Effects & Props
- Topic: Molotov Cocktail
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9117
Re: RE: Molotov Cocktail
I think anything from the anarchists cookbook is very unsave. Also, Alcohol and Aceton are not as save as gasoline since evapoating alcohol and aceton is highly flammable, may be ignited even by a cigarette. Gasoline isn't, you can dop a cigarette into a pot full of gasoline, it's save. (well, it w...
- Mon Jun 20, 2005 5:09 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: tank
- Replies: 26
- Views: 5442
- Sat Jun 18, 2005 6:31 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: A Lot of People When There's Not
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1975
RE: A Lot of People When There
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.
Otherwise you could use your 2 people make low poly cg replicas and use a crowd creation software.
- Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:13 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Muzzle flashes
- Replies: 29
- Views: 5656
- Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:07 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Computer Animation - Where do I start?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3843
- Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:30 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Computer Animation - Where do I start?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3843
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...
- Sun Mar 27, 2005 11:40 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: cheap special effect software?????
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3271
RE: Re: RE: cheap special effect software?????
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...
- Sun Mar 27, 2005 5:15 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: cheap special effect software?????
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3271
Re: RE: cheap special effect software?????
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...
- Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:21 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: 3d studio max
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3903
- Fri Mar 25, 2005 2:20 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Computer Animation - Where do I start?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3843
RE: Computer Animation - Where do I start?
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...
- Wed Mar 23, 2005 10:59 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: cheap special effect software?????
- Replies: 13
- Views: 3271
RE: cheap special effect software?????
almdv2, well your right it wasnt that great but dv3 is gonna be a hel of alot better.
- Thu Mar 17, 2005 2:44 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: VFX attemt: massive battle sequence
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7478
- Wed Mar 09, 2005 3:09 am
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: MPAA Notice before movie trailers?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3967
- Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:43 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Massive Armies
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5909
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/
- Mon Mar 07, 2005 3:29 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Massive Armies
- Replies: 22
- Views: 5909
RE: Massive Armies
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...
- Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:20 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Lighwave blood
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2245
- Mon Jan 31, 2005 1:08 am
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: New Halo Marine Flick
- Replies: 40
- Views: 12631
RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: New Halo Marine Flick
you could also perhaps do this entire movie machinima(sp?) the red vs blue stuff used ti quite well.
- Sun Jan 30, 2005 5:18 pm
- Forum: Tutorials & Guides
- Topic: More explosive help
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4426
- Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:37 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Lighwave blood
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2245
- Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:36 am
- Forum: Zombie Files Project
- Topic: Weaponry- from chainsaws and knives to handguns and miniguns
- Replies: 93
- Views: 92374
- Sun Jan 30, 2005 6:30 am
- Forum: PC & Mac
- Topic: Proof nothing is "secure"
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2594
RE: Proof nothing is "secure"
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.
- Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:58 pm
- Forum: General Film Making Stuff
- Topic: New Halo Marine Flick
- Replies: 40
- Views: 12631
RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: New Halo Marine Flick
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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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
e breakLn
- Tue Jan 25, 2005 3:54 pm
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: VFX attemt: massive battle sequence
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7478
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 ...
- Sun Jan 23, 2005 4:14 pm
- Forum: PC & Mac
- Topic: Different Internet Explorer problem
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2713
RE: Different Internet Explorer problem
2 cups and string>ie
get firefox.
get firefox.
- Sun Jan 23, 2005 2:47 am
- Forum: Special Effects
- Topic: Combustion? Bullet hits!
- Replies: 10
- Views: 2721
RE: Combustion? Bullet hits!
combustion is very complex it takes about a month to learn and cg bullet hits usually look like cr**.