MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Shake is extremely powerful, however equally hard to use. It is designed almost exclusively for large-scale compositing projects, which is why it is used so frequently in major productions. As far as amateur and independent film-making goes, After Effects is probably the wiser choice simply because ...

what plugin? and in what program? may i ask,

and yea it looks really good, though i feel it was maybe a bit heavy on the dark-black portions, will those be transparent?

nice test.

i've been looking about for lighting kits on BH, here's one, http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=productlist&A=details&Q=&sku=298509&is=REG&addedTroughType=categoryNavigation i was wondering if that one was any good, and i could supplement it with a diffusion umbrel...

yea, lighting is quite important for a good looking picture, ive been looking at a set of lamps on BH for about 100 usd, but i realized that i actually have no idea what im supposed to be looking for. i don't want lights that totally white out the set, so i guess an umbrella would also be a good ide...

oy, if you want to be safe, you could always film footage of a public area, then film closeup shots of a shootout in a private area, and then edit they well, thus making it look like ur shooting in a public street, thats just an idea. Also, don't do anything in LA, the cops there have a nack for sho...

yea, im in final cut (the mac equivalent to premeir)

when i capture video, it captures all the seperate shots into 1 clip,

anyone know how to get them seperatally?

im working on some bullets in blender right now, i'll have some for you in a bit, i can email you the .blend file so you can do what you want

ah, ok, thanks aaronv2, i shall do that

oy thanks for the help

ok, heres what i have:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQTnm2qrbeI

the glass shatters the wrong way...

not quite what i was asking for, but thats helpful too, thanks,

basically im asking if you can change the shatter from shattering at you, to away from you...

i thought it was pretty good, but yea the camera was jumpy and had some akward angles when flying over the top

oy,

i was using this effect for a window composit i put together,
it looks fine, but is there any way the make the shatter effect shatter backwards, in the opposite direction?

thanks

hmm, not completely related, but titanic is the worst film to win an academy award... i thought i would just thow that out there

not important though.....

very clever indeed, if you have really good actors it could be a stellar short, but you really need good actors...

that was redonkulous.

question: i understand how to do rigid dynamics, pretty easy, but i was wondering:

how do you get the boolean to occur right when the glass breaks? otherwize it just falls in pieces prematurely,

im in maya, but im sure it works the same way as lightwave...

oy, yea, so the tracking worked well, but my main problem is matching the lighting,

this particular one was rather haphazard, so i was wondering:

is there any way (in AE) to match the resolution of the composited CG, with grain or something? otherwize this thing sticks out like crazy

oy thanks, i'll try that out, yea that one looked really good

first off, you can find icarus here: http://www.peerlessproductions.com/tuts/pages/Icarus.html and blender here: www.blender3d.com first i took the footage of my dining room, , then i imported with final cut, then took that footage into the calibration unit of icarus. i put on auto track, which auto...

first time i've used icarus, tracked it and tested is in blender 3d,

the camera's supposed to be shaky, i was testing how accurate it could be,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4bWyjZF_zw

comments?

yo that was pretty sick, looks really professional, and yea it definately had a more mellow feel, good job.

yo isn't PF track over 6000? thats like mega professional, i checked the site a bit ago, yea pixel farm bought icarus and turned it into their program. anyway, nice work, how'd you get the refraction of the crystals to effect the real footage? i was only able to to that i i added a background image ...

yo those are sweet!

blender is actually pretty good, im using it until i get maya, but it has alot of pretty professional futures and integrate with video well. If you want to see some examples, www.peerlessproductions.com these guys are amazing and they use blender for all their stuff,

peace

um, frankly i think he's a dick, i personally don't care what he says about my little clip because i had never used after effects before, but thats not the point, much like wildstorm said, critism here is to give suggestions in a way to improve work, not to simply 'inform them' that their work is co...