8th Day of Hunting Clones
Today we introduced a couple new elements: the exterior spaceship set section, designed and built by Brian Schiavo, and the robots, also by Brian.We also reverted back to the Canon lens set. The Nikons are nice, don't get me wrong, but as the QOM pointed out -- we'd be shooting ...
Render Rabbit
I'm rendering out a single frame of a city in Bryce. I turned all the quality settings all the way up. That was a mistake. It's been rendering since Wednesday on a quad-core computer. Today is Saturday. The render is actually going slower now as it's getting to the complicated ...
Variety of Sanguine
Second Variety was the Phillip Dick story they made into Screamers. I always thought that Screamers was ALMOST a good movie. Oddly, they seem to have taken out many of the cooler and more cinematic things from the book. Note to self: normally you want to go the other way ...
Wide and Testy
So the new thinking is that we do a pan from right to left to reveal the ship at the beginning. That's Maduka's idea. The thing is that I have to render out a whole 2D image first and then do the pan (After Effects' camera is being a pain ...
Visual Effects Tests
A tutorial on making a starfield.The Animation Codec is lossless when set to 100%.My intuition is to always go for unusual angles on spaceships. That's not always the best idea as at least some portion of the audience will have no idea at all what they're looking at.Still, this is ...
Moving Metal
OK, so I don't know what to do. We have this ship and we need to see it in the opening scene.For some reason Maya hates to render this ship as an actual movie. It can seemingly do a still pretty well. I can get Daz Studio to render it ...
Dimensions Modifications
Now that Brian's set piece has been chopped apart anyway, we are going to make some modifications to the dimensions of it.
Elements
So I just figured out a technique for making signs and stuff which means I don't have to weather them with shoe polish. I can just grab a texture from a free site and overlay it in Photoshop. It's pretty elementary actually and I feel kinda dumb that I ain't ...
Shopping from Home!
Soon you will be able to use your video console to channel into the store of your choice.
Caution signs
If you loved nymphomania, you'll love nymphomania-mania.I just finished The Nymphos of Rocky Flats which is even more awesome than its title would suggest because it's about a freakin' vampire who's a private investigator.I'm glad I finished it because now I can go onto Pride and Prejudice and Zombies which ...