MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

post a pic of your final design and i will have it done for you

hey uhh i dont know if this is the type of thing you wanted but i tried to make what you were describing...


made with lightwave and animated bump.... pretty easy

you have to choose composite>make movie which will make a rendered video of what you have in the current composition your working on... when the window comes up with encoding options you have complete control over everything you can even change the frame rate if you want to... just take the time to ...

wow that is cool 10 mb limit thats okay for clips so ill post some experimentation and etc This first clip is my experiment with creating High Dynamic Range Images with my still camera... this scene was rendered with no lights but uses the images light data and global illumination to get the realist...

well if your working at DV quality the picture will have to be pretty big to maintain the resolution when you scale it.

there are different microphones for what your doing... the diaphragm in the microphone will determine the type of dynamic range you record... a condenser mic will be different to a boom mic in the respect of the airflow and diaphragm size i would suggest a boom mic because it can record everything a...

anyone know where i can get audience reactions...

like clapping and cheering and the ooos and aaahhhs laughter stuff like that... i wanna make a tounge and cheek sitcom

okay well i have two plugins that ive used here that you might not have Shine and Knoll Light Factory Anyway first i made a white mask of a ball shape being held by someones hand you can kind of imagine it... add the shine plugin and you already got the streaks of light coming from your hand... http...

i have nowhere to host files otherwise i would post some stuff

make sure you use a proper perspecive plugin to do the scaling or else it will just look like a cheap zoom which looks very unatural and cg. if you just leave the tv off it should be nice and black... placing small white X's made with tape on each corner of the screen you can track each X of the cor...

distorted air effects or even invisible people like in the new fantastic four movie uses distortion maps or depth maps in the case of 3d to get distortion data and apply it to a movie clip. There are a few ways to do air distortion one is the 3d approach where you use maybe a particle emitter and as...

if you import the movie into AE the project window shows you the size compression and frame rate etc.
are you sure your exporting the same settings? or even creating the composition the same size? otherwise if its none of those things you have a problem.

haha stock rain over a shot reminds me of disney movies... for the rain to look good you will need to have some kind of camera move or even matchmove your shot and add the rain after... a particle system in a 3d program can do this real easy...