MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

hmm well thats the last straw... First of all I didn't say it was you who signed up anonymously just to waste peoples time second i cant believe you people still think that what i did was bad. so in that case never EVER ask for any help favours or advice from me again. all im going to do is praise t...

exactly my thaughts foxwood.... sad but true and soon its all that will happen greenscreen this mask that. or just duck down... if your ever going to get hired for this work you need to find the simplest fastest and most importantly CHEAPEST way to do something. remember that

copydog has precisely the right idea... plan your shot think of how you want it to look then reverse it and film it backwards.. with enough acting practice you should become quite proficiant at it. Also use the decks attached to fishing line pull them out one by one and act like your catching them (...

the princibles used in photoshop can be applied to after effects quite easily... just think about it guys.

well thats interesting... if this person has to sign up as a different user to try and insult me, its not very gallant. lets try and clear something up. whats the point of posting this image here. why did you do it? for relentless praise and a hope that all you will recieve is positive feedback beca...

call me crazy but doing a half a** render (to me) isnt fun...

this method is quite common rotoscoping has become an art in digital film that will never die out as long as humans keep making mistakes in their films and need to fix that little something... in this case fixing the subtle lighting effects to give the film a reality to it. also look at the spells i...

hahaha you can NOT be serious... imagine if on shrek 2 they did the background really badly and said oh just ignore that and concentrate on the characters! thats so dumb. if your aware of its flatness fix it. whats the point of rendering something if your not going to use it? dude you got to learn t...

cmon guys everyone knows a 3d porgram will always render a movie with the alpha built in as soon as you import it into AE the program asks you what you want to do with the alpha channel so you dont need to play with it any further. matchmoving a camera shot if it is not a simple pan is really hard a...

uhh lets get some stuff straight with 3d scenes otherwise i will get angry and yell a bit cause space scenes in 3d are always done really badly as you can see with this one granted your just starting out which is why ill give you some hot tips. Stars: Stars actually need to be geometry believe it or...

whoa! unessesarily abrupt internet etiquitte alert! lol this board is crazy sometimes... santi i havent been here for a while noticed you were new and also have your head around things... a kudos to you. P.S the effect is good keep it up and play around with it instead of following tutorials all you...

TX Films 1st method will be the easiest way to do it... thats how i would do it anyway... good job TX

i havent seen it so a pic or vid or explanation will help

how come everyone can see my links except you I3lade its weird... anyway i thaught id post my way because i dont think people like the idea of using 3 computers to render something out... also its optimised polygon wise and render wise... so in other words faster. i just dont like max it makes thing...

Hi guys as you know we get alot of requests for lots of the same effects and im getting sick and tired of posting the same replies so i made us a tutorial for anyone asking around for a tutorial on bullet ripples ive made a tutorial for lightwave cuz thats what i use but basically the pricibles are ...

funny how something so simple is so hard to work out... if you watch all those classic shots there framed from the waist up mostly so when the bus drives past they just duck down. simple. otherwise if its full body wide shot they just run with the bus as mentioned earlier. x files loved to do that s...

ok so transparency is changed to opacity but i noticed that there is no
"time lapse" mode to capture with... hmm

there is a way you could make it look good without a greenscreen but there will be alot of work and planning involved... first you have to plan where your character will walk and get everyone who will be sped up to walk but keep out of the way of where the actor will be walking... this will be the b...

all the major progs are good for that stuff its all just plugins

bad karma your only half true... the programs are basically the same you can do whatever one does in another.. what someone will do with volumetrics another will do with metaballs and procedurals its really up to how you learn to do things but seriously ive tried them out there all as good as each o...

let your effects speak for you not your programs. I3lade you have alot to learn about alot. You can use natural lighting for greenscreen as long as you have done your white balance and your temperature looks okay. Also you wouldn't at all notice tiny machine sewed lines on your screen especially if ...

HDRI in lightwave must be used as an imageworld light probe loaded into the plugin in the backdrop settings you must also use radiosity for hdri... there are tutorials for it on shaw. im using lw8 yes but i did that years ago with IMPACT it is a plugin for lightwave although now it is easier with lw8

yes but i adressed the lighting issue i didnt know he used AE for the shadows thats quite weird you cant just say the lighting is wrong and expect to get an award for your post... the bullet time glass was just a rigid body dynamics simulation done at normal speed then i just jacked up the fps in li...

U.S your the fool... it is the people who focus on the attention to detail that get the good jobs... if you wanna keep doing a half assed job then ill laugh at you when im spending days on something i love to make it the best i can.

yeah go ahead and steal someones work thats always a good idea... look if you need footage to use in your film you will either need to film it yourself or pay for it you cant just steal it off tv they have laws for that youy know