MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Wishful Thinking... Motion capture is expensive and cant be found for under 50,000 dollars it requires the program, then the sensors which are the basis of motion capture and then a tracker i believe. So if you have 50,000 dollars lying around then check out FAMOUS3D or Alias MoCap or Alias Motion B...

No i mean like in the moive Grayson he takes a 13 inch spraypainted figurine and sets it up close to the camera and the actor far away so it looks like a big statue.

Just wondering if many people use this? And maybe post your favorite example of it.

I saw a clip some where where a guy was standing in the middle of the screen and the camera came up above him and rotated 360 degrees around him and i was wondering would he have to have been green screened and what else do you have to do? make him a null object ?because ive tried using the camera a...

I was wondering how i would go about using the camera feature in AE?

For the most part everyone in here is just repeating themselves over and over saying how it locks you to a plan when in reality thats just an excuse because you are to lazy to storyboard because you dont have to stick to what was drawn its more of an idea or a guideline of how the shot could go. Its...

I'm looking into buying the Canon Optura XI so i was wondering if anyone had any comments on how well it functioned under all circumstances.



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I made a very cheap wire rig out of things I already had pulleys, carabiner, climbing rope,etc. But its sort of shakey and i dont have anyway to control the angles it is at. So in conclusion does anyone have a solution to either of the problems preivously stated? These are the test clips http://www....

Just wondering if it is in anyway possible to reverse footage in vegas v.4?

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Has anyone seen this where the guy takes the frames and holds them near his face like he is looking through them and they run into pictures. Anyideas on how to do this?

Actually it shows in the extra features that elijah was set farther back from the camera in some scenes like in the wagon with gandalf his seat is farther back and in other scenes he just had large items or sets.

Im new to 3DS MAX 6 i've been messing around in there but i cant figure out how to apply materials and textures and make backgrounds.

can anyone explain to me how to compsite without color keying?

i would have to say footage out the window is pretty bad all you see is color patches on the ground if its a clear day of clouds and the only footage worth getting is taking off or landing but nothing can be on then so must no footage is very good from commercial planes i assume it is alot better fr...

well i dont have aim for the moment so if you just want to explain it that would be great

i still dont understand your stream idea

i still dont understand how if i film a stream i can make it look like a street is flooding i wouldnt know how to go about destroying rocks with 3d and i couldnt use a firehydrant because i want like a huge wave blast down through the street

what i am think is for building taking a bow then putting clay over it to get the right shape what else can i do?

have any better suggestions what you have suggesting i wouldnt know how to do.

yeah shame im not big budget but when i say flood i mean like huge wave rushing through town down a street i think im going what meade said and make models of the picture with clay and to make it more realistic i think im going to have it be pour from around a corner of the model so it looks like it...

okay what i mean is so i would have a picture of this street for the background then i would set up a blackscreen because black is invisible in ae so i would set up a blackscreen back at my house then dumps huge buckets so its like stockfootage flood then put it on to the picture so it look like the...

when i first got it thats all i could figure out just find tutorials on the internet for effects and they often explain how to go about doing everything and once you understand the effect you can start apply the same sort of technique to other effects also just play around with the different tools.

i have an idea for a special effect but i want to know if it would work okay so i take a background plate of a street in town,then i set up blackbackground and dump a huge bucket of water mixed with milk so it will show then if put itno ae because black disappears will it look like the street actual...