virtual nickel 4 yor carrara thoughts: the next level

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    havent solved the ik booties thing yet.

    thinkin about how to render for a 3 point cut. 
    3 cameras most like, laugh but where to put em

    then establishing shots
    close ups
    medium shots
    long shots

     

    my favorite was lotr ii,  when they showed from outside the mountain where Gandolf was falling and battling the Balrog.

    they played the voices over it, like echoes from the 1st movie.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    this was the insert clouds, it looks snow like.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    2nd attemp at a 2nd skin bakini.  is difficult to make a straight line across her back >.<

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2018

    experiments with translucent skydome

    even with haze set to 0 percent , still seems hazy to me. Goal is crisp and clear

    setting atmosphere to none, ambient to 0.

    used a sphere as a skydome and 1 bulb outside the sphere, 1tried with an hdri image and without hdri

     

    bulb outside sphere (enclosing batting cage)


    rendered weirdly, only seeing bottom half of sphere

     

    inside sphere, bulb light outside, ambient loght 0, a hdri image set.  sphere translucent 100%

    without the hdri image, seeing significant banding

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  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    Regarding the bikini strap, have you tried Carrara's 3D paint tool? It has a straight line tool so you could draw using that and either use it "as is" or use it as a guide.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i've tried in my early carrara days, textures ended up tilted in weird directions

    CarraraKinis  sounds catchy?  lol

     

    snowmageddon carrara day  !!

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2018

    interesting read on film editing and types of cuts

    http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2233986&seqNum=4

     

    the rough cut  http://www.raindance.org/the-6-stages-of-editing-as-a-film-director/

    says music last?  i woulda thought music come first, set the pace, the mood.  hmph

     

    thinking, the editing the most fun of the whole rendering a movie project

     

    i forgot about the gap in mystic gorge, what do i do?

     

    there is no shortcut in skipping the draft animated render.
    ouch

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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    That's what temp tracks are for, to get the pace right. You cut the film to  something that sounds about right, and then do the real music after. One reason why trailers all seem to have the same music!

    Imagine you get a score written, hire a 40 piece orchestra, choir, studio, spend a week recording your soundtrack, then decide to cut or lengthen your crucial sections . . . "Hey Mr Zimmer, could you just come back and redo this bit? Oh and bring the band . . . ."

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    Unless people are dancing to music or it is otherwise integral to the scene and its pacing, it is added later.

    Considerations are different for an animated film. Animation is expensive (=time consuming if you are doing it yourself) and basically you want to waste as little of it as possible. That is why producing an Animatic is an important step, so that you can plan the edits, the length of each clip, the camera angles, etc. Then you only need to animate and render each scene once and as little as possible is wasted on the edit floor. Inevitably there will be some rework and wastage, but planning well in advance will keep this to a minimum. I talk more about this in my Animation in Carrara videos.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    seen a few trailers using the Last of the Mohicans music. smiley

    the sony s/w comes with a few royalty free music tracks.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    smiley

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    Queen did a fantastic soundtrack for Flash Gordon

    sff + rockn band = fantastic

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145
    Mistara said:

    Queen did a fantastic soundtrack for Flash Gordon

    sff + rockn band = fantastic

    Great job on the Highlander soundtrack too (a shame about the sequels for that one!).

  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584

    There should be only one!!!

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    There should be only one!!!

    laugh​ too true!

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    PhilW said:

    There should be only one!!!

    laugh​ too true!

     

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    Conner MaCleod, same clan different vintage 

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i made a skype group, but i dont know how to invite anyone

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    well, i didnt really expect tech support help on the toes, shouldnt feel dissapointed at the response.  

    cool

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    hard drive cloner, cloning,   4 terrorbytes devil

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2018

    rendering with the atmosphere:  distance fog option  leaving some smudgie marks on cone primitive

     

    wasnt the distance fog, turned off full indirect light  smudgies disappeared

     

    turning off interpolation slows the render down, 

     

    seeing what show photons does

     

    cloner done. 

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    distant fog, atmosphere option

     

    show photons, looks psychedelic

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2018

    collision detection or not, on the camera,  camera inside mesh is not what i want to show >.<

    wanted to kitbash sacrament set in mystic gorge, didnt imagine it would be so complicated

     

    ffxii atmospherics  1st few seconds

     

    ffx

     

    it isnt the same after playing witcher 3 

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2018

    gaahhhh

    i loaded the tin pan alley for carrara, in carrara

    wanna render to png, it wont let me change the output file format, is stuck on tiff

    crying

    why wont it let me change it?

     

    saved it as a new file.  dunno if was the sungle 1 thing, but can change img output format.

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    came across this article about cabin lighting.

    basically studies in interior lighting.  was thinking stuff like this could help design scene lighting

    interior design 

    https://www.aircraftinteriorsinternational.com/industry-opinion/science-behind-lighting-38000ft.html

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    found a college by me has cinematography classes. smiley  
    https://www.ftc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Addendum-2017-18-Programs-for-Website.pdf

    dunno if i can physically do it tho, it will be torture hobbling to classes on my cane.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    rendering 300 frames panning a room, day 2 only up to frame 58.

    if i wanna be serious about rendering from 3 camera angles,
    going to need 2 more pcs. minimum 8 cores or higher hzes i7.

  • DiomedeDiomede Posts: 15,169

    Scotty, I need more power!

    hope you get it sorted out.  I vaguely remember a thread on purchasing and hoarding old servers for a render farm.  eBay auctions?

    class looks fascinating

  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    Sorry to hear you have walking difficulties. I always pictured you as being quite young but maybe that's not the case?

    Rather than getting more PCs it might be cheaper to look at Octane, it can be fast for rendering animations. I always try to limit render times when doing animation to less than five mins per frame, but Octane can do good output at less than one minute per frame.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited March 2018

    i'se 54, my legs are a challenge. 
    more doctors to see
    not ready to sit down yet angel  stubborness counts for a lot, lol.

    beam me up, Scotty, "hello computer" smiley

     

    after adding ram, cloning and installing hdd, feeling more confidant about building modern pc. 
    ddr4, sata 3 drives.  the power supply specs still mysterious, 
    if i could find a deal on like a Win7 builders oem 3 or 5 packdevil
    it's the activation codes >.<

     

    i'm currently rendering Tango's Stella.  Thinkin i could replace some of the jpgs with simple procedurals.  dont want to sacrifice the glowy computer panels. 

    the chair swivels. is awesome. 

     

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  • PhilWPhilW Posts: 5,145

    See I knew you were young!

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