Movie online soon

Movie will be online by Wednesday I think... keep coming back!

Showtime

Hey there, currently the first public screening is taking place at the faculty of design at the Hochschule Augsburg. Feedback has been quite good so far, so I´m very happy we had a showable version ready. The next week a new Website is scheduled, along with the possibility to see the movie on the web... So come back!

Greets & thanks to all visitors

Tisi

robbin´da hood

keep rollin´

Things that look good...

Talkin about things that make CG more beautiful and/or easier:

• Darkness... like Batman, darkness is your good friend. What´s not visible doesn´t have to be that detailed.
• MotionBlur: everything that´s fast and blurry is fine... makes it look less cg and more like real life.
• Shaky Cam: see also motion blur... Though a little bit overused in recent TVShows (some make me sick), when used in sensible doses adds a lot to your shot.
• Antialiasing: Pixels look like ... well pixels.They´re square and mean  and look jaggy when displayed in diagonal. To make them a lot nicer try cranking up your aliasing-settings. Another good tip is to render your stuff at  80% size and scale it up...  

Of course, there´s always a downside. Rendertime. Tends to reach exorbitant heights when you play with your settings. But keeping it dark (remember?) and rendering at smaller sizes (like let´s say 80%, remeber) cuts down rendertime a little bit.

My god, I sound like i know any of this stuff?

post post post

Hey there, I´m deep into post so blogging is a littlebit rare these times. But I took a nice little pic  straight from AfterEffects, so you guys can see where the thingy is going. More posts the next days, i promise!

Images from the first shoot!

No posts for a long time, i know shame on me. But it´s not all about blogging, it´s also about getting work done :) And this is how it goes:
http://picasaweb.google.de/fourcameras/

We filmed 2 days each about 14h, it all went pretty well (except we had to reshoot because I forgot something :). On the fotos you can see our Recording Rig in True DVRebel style. For a better key, we used an HDMI cable straight from the Sony V1E Cam into the Blackmagic Intensity Card. This allows the frames to be recorded as Uncompressed 8bit Quicktimes in 4:2:2 compression. This will give us some nicer edges for the chromakey than standard HDV.