Dienstag, 29. Januar 2008

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?

Sonntag, 27. Januar 2008

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!


Freitag, 28. Dezember 2007

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.

Montag, 19. November 2007

Shooting scheduled


Shooting is scheduled for this weekend... let´s see how that works out. In the meantime...you guessed it: more testing :)

Freitag, 9. November 2007

more testing...

Mittwoch, 7. November 2007

Dave in the city of sin


He has been there, and i´m pretty sure we will be there for shooting (pun intended)!

Samstag, 3. November 2007

style-o-rama




Did some styletesting... looks familiar? fine, then it´s on its right way :) (btw. posts are in english from now on... )