A little test

Despin · Post by **Despin** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 10:59 pm

Hey there.

We went and did a few tests today for the 90 second script I posted in the script section.

If anyone is intrested, here is the first.

Right click and save as... Geocities is pretty shitty though. Might not stay up for long.

http://www.geocities.com/despin180/QT5_512_download.mov

Despin out.

Chris_film · Post by **Chris_film** » Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:08 pm

it wouldnt let me download it. it said access to that file was forbidden.

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Tue Jul 06, 2004 11:26 pm

i liked it! Good cg! my only issue was that it suddenly changed to 16x9, but other than that good job.

foxwood · Post by **foxwood** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 12:01 am

Ya good CGI

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:34 am

It's already not up

monkey · Post by **monkey** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:38 am

you should make it shatter faster. glass dosent float, and like half of the bottle still there. me and my friends shoot bottles all the time. or, just shoot it with a bbgun from the side. it would look good.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:39 am

? the link dosnt work

monkey · Post by **monkey** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:41 am

right clik on it and save as.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 3:42 am

I ussally dont download the stuff but I guess ill delete it after anyway, ill edit this post when ive seen it

Edit : It was okay.. you could tell it was fake though

BrownCowStudios · Post by **BrownCowStudios** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 4:52 am

Looks pretty good. The actor's leg looks a little strange after the bottle explodes though. And the bottle shattering seems too perfect. Needs to be more random, and the pieces need to vary more in size. Other than that, it looked pretty good. Good luck!

U.S.Amateurfilmaker wrote:my only issue was that it suddenly changed to 16x9, but other than that good job.

Not 16:9. Appears to be closer to 2.35:1. The reason that was done was to demonstrate the difference between the original shot, and the final shot.

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 5:24 am

ah, yes, wasn't even thinking at the time, sry lol

I3lade203 wrote: Edit : It was okay.. you could tell it was fake though

Give him a break, i thought it looked damn good

. CGI artists spend days making that cr** look hyper-realistic.

Gyro · Post by **Gyro** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 6:50 am

Pretty cool, like mentioned before it could shatter faster, but very impressive.

Mushiman · Post by **Mushiman** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:46 am

That was cool, maybe though pull the focus from the actor to the bottle just before it shatters & speed up the shatter a little.

Good job!

Despin · Post by **Despin** » Wed Jul 07, 2004 11:26 am

Hey there.

"i liked it! Good cg! my only issue was that it suddenly changed to 16x9, but other than that good job."

That's because the their are two clips in that video. A before and after.

"you should make it shatter faster. glass docent float, and like half of the bottle still there. me and my friends shoot bottles all the time. or, just shoot it with a bbgun from the side. it would look good."

Well we did that... And it didn't look THAT great. To be honest we never expected to do use any computer generated effects for this short. It's just that when I dumped the footage into the computer it didn't look as good as I wanted. So I did that little tests to see what it would look like. That was a rough draft of the effect to see how it would look. I can tweak the motion of the broken glass.

"maybe though pull the focus from the actor to the bottle just before it shatters & speed up the shatter a little. "

Yeah there is actually a few rack focus's in that shot from the actor to the bottle and back again... But it all gets lost in a blurry mess due to the compression...

"The actor's leg looks a little strange after the bottle explodes though"

LOL. That''s because I had to paint it in. Like I said. That was never meant to be an fx shot. So I never got any kind of clean plate. The only plate I had is the one you see at the start of that video clip. So I had to take a frame from the film and in photo shop get rid of the bottle and paint in the leg that should be there... It does look kinda lame...

Yeah. I think I could get the bottle a lot more realistic in 3ds. But I haven't tried that yet. I did all of the above in adobe after fx.

Thanks for watching and taking the time to leave comments.

Also.. Anyone know any half decent FREE web hosting places where I can bung up a few short video clips like the one above?

Despin out.

edinc90 · Post by **edinc90** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 7:35 pm

Tripod, they give you 20 MB of space, I got away with some videos, but don't expect more than like 5 or 6 to fit. It is free though...

Despin · Post by **Despin** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:36 pm

Hey there.

Here is another little test we did little test

We're trying to work out the best way of doing the bottle smashes.

Despin out.

Despin · Post by **Despin** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:29 pm

Hey there.

Sorry. Bad link. This should work http://homepage.ntlworld.com/pauline.bo ... 0test).mov

Despin out.

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:59 pm

CGI artists spend days making that cr** look hyper-realistic.

I am a CGI artist..

U.S.Amateurfilmaker · Post by **U.S.Amateurfilmaker** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:13 am

i mean industry ones, as in ones that work on major movies. lol

And if anyone who isn't getting paid or graded for what they do spends a few days straight working on a 3-5 second shot (especially one that is just a test), i might just have to call them insane and in need of help.

insert_coin · Post by **insert_coin** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 10:50 am

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.

ssj3gohan · Post by **ssj3gohan** » Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:05 am

wow man, that's very cool. The last one is very well done, but just for the CGI i liked the first one where the whole glass shattered and went all like matrix-shatter... well that's my opinion.

For the cinematography: I think it will look better if you'd make the camera go up slowly from the feet up to his head or to his 'gun', and then a fast-switching shot: grab - behind shot grab - shoot - shatter and slow down so that the glass all floats really cool.
But again, your shoot was very good, this is just an idea from creative pov

I3lade203 · Post by **I3lade203** » Sun Jul 11, 2004 12:04 am

might just have to call them insane and in need of help.

I call them dedicated and working to get somewhere with their talanets and skills

Despin · Post by **Despin** » Fri Jul 16, 2004 8:31 pm

Hey there.

A few screen grabs from the flick.

Despin out.

reflexive_cinematics · Thu Jul 22, 2004 12:04 am

hehe, not too bad. Looks like the shatter plugin from AE.