YO YO guys!!!
I'm back from my trip, and before crazy-round-the-clock-full-time-holiday-commercial-making-marathon that started this week, I managed to squeeze a couple of hours of model building. So today I have a big update for you!
But, before we continue I want to thank you for you comments!
And, Czar, more excited about this than Blade runner 2?? Wow, I hope we'll live up to expectation! :lol
OK, let's start!
I finished detailing the Mini-Citroen and installing 5 LED's inside. Four for the lights, and one for cockpit.
It's wired through the bottom, and since I need it for the shots where it is already landed, hiding the wires shouldn't be a problem. Here's a test shot of the lights:
Ok, the next thing we slowly did over the last couple of months is installing LEDs in the big car as well. The difference here is that there's much more of them, and most are connected to
Arduino controller which means we can program them blinking in any way we want. The only problem is that we don't know how to program it! :lol
It's easy to do basic stuff, but here we need 3-4 individual groups of LEDs, each doing different things. Roof blinking at different intervals than the cockpit, and underside blinking in some kind of a landing pattern... And that's higher level of programming so basically we're stuck!
If anyone worked with Arduino and knows how to program that, help would be much appreciated.
Here's a photo with everything on:
Here are the underside landing lights that should blink sequentially.
I also made another building. Similar style as the last one, just a different design.
And again I just lit it with Christmas lights.
And later in the night when the work is done, we turn on the buildings and models, and sit back and enjoy the view and a beer... After 10 minutes we just can't resist and we start playing, pumping some smoke in, and setting up test shots!
We quickly threw the scene together and suspended the Mini-Citroen with fishing string over the city. I just deleted the wires in Photoshop.
And a behind the scenes shot for the end of this post:
Here's one interesting thing about cameras.. Mostly I'm doing these tests with my Canon 550D, and since they are just tests I'm happy with them, bu no matter what I do I can't get that
proper movie feel on the photos. It looks too plastic. But, when we film it with Black Magic camera somehow that movie feel is there.. Probably because of dynamic range or something - I don't know really, but it just works! It's interesting...
So now for a month or two we'll have tons of work so I don't know how much time I'll have for the film.. But we'll see.
Thanks for looking!!!