MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

Heh, sort of wish I had a deadline like that to answer to. Might push someone other than me to do some work.

I'd implore you not to add any more blur, and infact reduce it in places. Out-of-place focal blur will make your otherwise technically ver strong production look amateurish.

I'll agree to disagree with you there one the blur then

This forum did inspire me to go and make my own track dolly. It HAS been very useful.

Anyway, he's alread blurred it, I just think a tiny blur or a tiny bit of brightness increase would help, that's all. At that distance, you should only blur to match your camera's image sampling. Any lens blur is close to superficial. You're right, I think he has blurred it a little. Possibly sligh...

If I was being picky, I'd suggest masking and recolouring the floor of the first shot you posted. This will help gel your sky & background replacement much better with your live action. (PM me if you like, I'll help) I don't have any problems believing the clones in scene 3. The background is, h...

I'm liking the colour grading. I love films that have a certain "look" applied to them, and this is certainly very bleak.

Nah. Just get good at acting like it has some heft. Easier. Even if I do weight them. I usually just put a steel rod in the barrel and a bag of shot in th place where the clip goes. Not hard. I filled the clip of our airsoft G36 with pennies. Worked a treat. Doing something for real is better than ...

A nice simple matte black spray works fine for me. I think weighting it is more of a problem than finish.

Can I make a point about day-for-night colour grading - please please please, only use it if you HAVE to. If you can film a scene when it's dark and use artificial lighting to illuminate your subjects, then do. Day-for-night CAN be done well. After some experimentation, I've done it for my most rece...

We just went to a local fabric shop and searched through their bargain bin till we found something suitable. Works a treat, and cost us all of £3. You could very cheaply buy enough to cover the inside of a garage. http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/4295/bluescreen1ry1.jpg http://img407.imageshack...

I think people need to realise that a chromakey is never a way to get round the work completely. Even in a professional sense, there's almost always some manual work to be done.

Looks good except for the brown hair, IDK about the motion, test soon? The stunt doubles themselves are pretty much going to be ragdoll - falling down cliffs, and getting thrown about in an explosion. The modelling is going great - the things we have to worry about now are materials and lighting. T...

Today, I managed to finish one of the toughest shots in the movie .... and I'm really glad I have. Sadly, it's a shot that, if I've done it right, you won't be able to tell it's vfx. Now that's done, I'm 100% confident everything else is doable for us.

anyway forget visionlab its a silly little program for kids like you. I'm sort of hoping that was sarcasm. VisionLab is an entirely competent budget compositor with plenty of presets that make tasks easier. I don't see why that's a bad thing. ===== Nice work on the vid dude. You could cut down the ...

Some WIP - shots of the CGI double for Liam. It isn't going to be involved in any closeups, just some fairly distant shots that we can't physically do. We're working on materials and shaders now. http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3161/liamtestsn7.jpg http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/1272/liams2mb...

How can you keep it on your computer? Each movie for me are like 2-3 GB When you have 800 gigs of storage, 2-3 gigs isn't too much of a tall order ;) For my recent project, which has taken far too much of my time, money and effort to just delete / keep a compressed copy of, I've bought it it's own ...

Animated mask. Look it up.

Jperson wrote:Quite frankly I thinks you got it spot on. And that is one hell of an editing job. Good work

Thanks It's getting there.

Yes, but only because inteference particles from DV tape can make sane patients go mental, or something.

Fairly well put together. I was distracted by the toy guns in some parts, but hey, money is precious.

I'll post a more in-depth review later. It was kinda enjoyable.

I always keep my tapes, since storing the raw footage on a hard drive isn't generally practical and I'll inevitably want to tweak something in the far future.

At the moment, we have about 30 miniDV tapes from various projects. The Forest II alone has 7 tapes (and counting...)

It is blurred already - infact I blurred it to match the colour sampling of the PAL DV footage. Thinking about it, however, I did forget to take into account the fact that I enlarged the original footage by 10% to allow stabilisation, so it probably does need a little more blur. Here's a comparison ...

how did you do the moving clone shot? managed to push the dolly at the same speed everytime?? how did you do the cg aswell? The 3D is done in 3D Studio Max - having taken appropriate measures of my arm which it will replace, and on-set took reflective bauble pictures so we can get HDRI maps. "...

Just thought I'd show a recent render of the CGI arm that will appear in one or two shots of this film. http://www.secret7000.co.uk/theforest/forest2pics/cgiarm.jpg We also have some shots that will utilise digital doubles of all three actors. They're coming on quite nicely now, I'll post renders of...

Why not, is more the answer. I learned so much and can do much better now, why not have another go in the same world, try out my new-found love for compositing and my new appreciation for production values, while at the same time poke some much-deserved fun at pretentious war films, terrible horrors...

Is it anything like the first one? Bad plot (if I can remember) but pretty entertaining. Do you guys use a Pd-150? You're right, terrible plot, and frankly it should never have become a full short. The second one follows similar lines but with a few extra twists plot-wise, a better script, and obvi...