MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

you can get some great ramping of speed in after effects although you MUST deinterlace and put frame blending aswell then it will look pretty good. the problem is stuff that is moving with the action like trees in the background. cloth dynamics and other stuff... my advice from experience is to prac...

no way could you get the amount of particle interaction in max... you would have to us3e animated sprites which would look way better... even then the amount of particle simulation would take ages they had thousands of particles to calculate and they had a farm of computers... good luck... you may h...

Ok controlled pan and tilt motion ok easy... what would impress me is zoom controll or x y and z axis controlled movement... then your camera angles are limetless... oh and how about focus control too? then ill buy one off you

uhh or you could just use a mini trampoline

what you need to do is take a greenscreen and a green cardboard box... you will then need to film the girl crawling out of the box which will be the tv later... make sure you have no camera movement if you do it will be almost impossible to match the movement when it comes time to make her crawl out...

you know this effect is really relatively easy... all you need is to film your actor and then at one point get rid of him yet keep the camera movement steady. so if you had a locked down shot it would be easy to get rid of the actor at some point and do another take and make him appear at another po...

can someone get this silly billy a manual please?

u need to use warping along with morphing because those two things bring the transformation together the warping will distort the image without transitioning between images... this will make the transformation look a little better... and also if you have the time use transition before warping and mo...

thats a pretty big task your asking for... people like us usually dont have time to design a monster, then model the monster in 3d, then texture the monster, then rig the monster, then animate the monster... do you even have concept drawings? anything or were you just hoping for it all to magically ...

if your serious about this sort of thing you will read all this... you guys are really missing the most important point with all this debating... the real purpose of special effects. people looking for the best 3d programs intend to do big effects shots and explosions blah blah blah. in which case i...

Hey i baught some DVD-RW and i put some files on it then when i choose to format the DVD from nero it completes but then when i go to burn it says the disc isnt blank? than when i try to burn and nero asks me to clear the disc and then burn i click yes it cleans the disc then goes to burn but says i...

we filmed it in an underground parking lot... didnt hurt at all it was fun thats why i did it twice. the problem is i have to correct the color between the two cameras which takes alot of time.

fish eye lens looks sweet best 200$ i ever spent.

just as easy if not easier... as long as you know your way around and how to do some of the things required to get what you want... all the things used in that image can be done in almost all of the 3d software out there... trust me

argh a 1.5meg bitmap? havent you ever heard of jpeg? anywhoo a couple of pointers for ya. i dont know if you wanted a cell shaded cartoony look? if not then the environment needs improoving. a good environment will add to the realism of any render you do for example your clouds and water and etc. th...

general rule: if your camera is moving and you need to composite anything in it. the movment of the camera wll generally need to be emulated through either camera tracking software or keyframes you set yourself. camera tracking is only useful when there is motion to be tracked... so therefore it is ...

hey adam... do you subpatch when you model? you really should because you can see the object isnt subdivided enough and instead of looking perfectly round it looks like a nonagon or something... just a tip aswell you need to turn on shadow noise reduction on to get rid of that grainy shadow and some...

are you sure max is what you prefer?
i think you should spend some time with other demos of software before you spend all that cash on a brand new expensive version of max... right?

maybe its cheaper... maybe they get a deal... maybe the people are nicer... just because more people use it doesnt mean it is the best.... look at christianity for example LOL

particle illusion wont give you stuff as nice as that... close... but not as nice and to render particle systems with sprite animation would take a while... i personally would go for the 3d approach because you can add DOF which makes them look ultra realistic!

just take a plane with about 50 subdivisions on x and z axis's giving your plane about 2500 polys. then triple the polys to add some geometry. then just apply the image you have made as a displacement map and make sure you apply a polygonal smoothing technique to the plane or else it will look all f...

guys there are so many simple things you could check to fix this problem... lightwave isnt bad either i think its better than max but thats just my opinion.

p.s ever tried turning anti aliasing on?

ok ill give the same advice for the third time and see if you follow... sky tracer and sasquatch were 3rd party plugins... lightwave as it developed its versions decided to pay the people who made them for those plugins and incorporate them into new versions... sky tracer can be done with a textured...

just because my stuff is "unbelievable" doesnt mean it was made in max... thats the point im trying to make here. i use lightwave... if there is a special feature in max it can usually be done with some basic methods in lightwave and the same applies reverse. the thing about these 3d progr...

i didnt say you were... im saying that hanging around chat rooms and forums people talk alot of hot air and people dont investigate things for themselves... its the same say for a person that comes into this board with an illegal copy of premiere (no manual) and asks how to apply an effect to a clip...

if i were you id make an animated one... it would look better... just make some motion graphics in AE and with AE rendering with an alpha map built in you could composite it in premiere or just import the background footage right there. it would look better with a little animated logo next to the na...