EMPIRE STRIKES BACK Additional Animation Footage

[FANTAMATION]

I'm using the old Dragon 1.0

 

[FANTAMATION]

wow, I just watched the clip through photobucket and for whatever reason it's not playing it accurately, the animation is not that jerky..... I'm not THAT rusty LOL

 

[FANTAMATION]

maybe photobucket is just playing crappy through my computer, hopefully it'll play properly on other peoples computers.

 

[Guy Cowen]

Its def a bit dodgy compared to the orignal file you sent.

Anyone got any ideas for hosting video?

 

[Sym-Cha]

Hi there,

try here when all of the animation is complete with sound fx etcetera :

Vimeo, Your Videos Belong Here

You can also post a 'making of' there

-Chaim

 

[Brinn 71]

Yes! We have posted Videos on Vimeo, they are great. Nice work! thumbsup

 

[SpaceCowboy]

When I played it the animation looked fine but there was a harsh lighting flicker... maybe a combination of video, fluorescent lights and the photobucket compression. If your fluorescents lights are at 120 Hz I think they are going on and off 60 times a second, and since the video camera shoots at a 1/30 frame rate it may be catching some light variance from this "on/off" cycle... sort of like when you video tape footage from an older analog television... then the photobucket compression is enhancing the variance. In any case, it wets the appetite and I'm looking forward to seeing the shoot footage!!

 

[FANTAMATION]

Thanks guys, will try vimeo
I'm shooting with a Canon 40D still camera with a 24fps rate and yes the light flicker is due to the combination of the flourescents and the low ISO but the actual animation was a bit jerkier on photobucket than the original quicktime file.

 

[IEDBOUNTYHUNTER]

Gave it 5 stars, Someone back me up. This is to cool

 

[Guy Cowen]

Done thumbsupthumbsup:thumbsup

 

[ralphee]

I watched it on Quicktime earlier, its mint, slight lighting flicker, but id bet that would be down to flo lighting anyway.

Lee

 

[DaddyfromNaboo]

Thanks Guy, I've never posted any video source before, anyway this is a little low res teaser of the rough element. The reason it's so dark is because the only low res footage I have available to share at the mo is via the video tap. The video tap images are dark because I had to shoot this at a low ISO since I'm only using overhead flourescents to light it, ....

And the fluorescent won´t be a problem for you? They have a flicker to them at 60hz, so you might run into problems with even lighting of each frame, or am I wrong?

 

[FANTAMATION]

I've attached the original quicktime file directly through here so let's see how this does

 

[FANTAMATION]

The clip you are seeing here is just using the low res video tap feed frames which are affected by the flourescents, however the high res "hero" frames are not affected which will be used for the final composite shot. Think of this as a low res "work print" element, it's just to show what the action will be in its roughest form.......... wait til the finished final composite.

 

[trooper]

dang, thats pretty sweet :thumbsup

 

[SpaceCowboy]

Yes, the animation is smoother in the MOV. Looking good!!

 

[hansicle]

This is the stuff we wish we could have done as a kid. I'm excited to see someone doing it, and doing it so well. Truly AMAZING

 

[frosty]

this is brilliant, wow!

 

[Duncs]

very nice

 

[christrom]

That is very good indeed. I had a thought - do you keyframe at all? What you could do is pose 5 or 6 of the main movements, print them and use them for reference as you do the final shot. It must be very difficult getting all the body parts co-ordinated, but I think you've done an incredible job.

Are you going to try to motion blur them on computer? If you did that I bet they would look photo-real.

10/10 up to now though, I bet you are having a blast watching these come to life.