[Evrard Blom]

Hey Zhenka, i have to thank you really. I went to the cgsociety and in betwen the ads guess what i found out:

https://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/dartiste_concept_art/

Thats exactly the kind of stuffs iam talking about 🙂

Anyone knows where i can buy more like this or better, please don’t hesitate to give out the links or references.

[Evrard Blom]

Hey Zhenka, i have to thank you really. I went to the cgsociety and in betwen the ads guess what i found out:

https://www.ballisticpublishing.com/books/dartiste_concept_art/

Thats exactly the kind of stuffs iam talking about 🙂

Anyone knows where i can buy more like this or better, please don’t hesitate to give out the links or references.

[Evrard Blom]

Hi Zhenka,

Everything you said is pure truth mate, i appreciate your words thank you.

The thing is, my ambitions is really high, i can tell you iam not feeling shy to say that i wanna be able to reproduce effects like the one you can watch in movies like star wars. These studios like INDUSTRIAL LIGHT+MAGIC (ILM) that used maya and compositing to create some sequences most hide secrets.

I was reading a book like the alias/wavefront “the art of maya”. I jumped over my chair when i saw in the table of content that they were going to describe the star wars I as a showcase. Here goes an exerpt when they were “showing” how the tools were used to achieve a complex scene were crowds were battling:

“The plug-in…was used to animate crowds of people, robots, and aliens. This plug-in made use of particles to drive the motion of characters along the ground. Intelligence was added using scripts and expressions so that particle crowd reacted in realistic manner. “carrots” and “skunks” were added to attract and repel the characters, while dynamic rules instructed the particles to make friends, to climb stairs, walk through a doorway, or attack an opposing way…”

Now mate you can understand how i need more specifics before i could “try” anything by myself. I need for instance to be able to have a complete book/DVD/interviews about what these plug-in, intelligence, carrots, skunks, dynamics, expressions, etc, actualy are. I could sure end up finding by myself, but a good timely info could help speed-up findings. You can end up find out how the nasa is launching those rockets in the sky, but a shortcut would be to simply ask/buy the infos. Why remake the wheel all the time?

Thats where you can understand my searches.

[Evrard Blom]

Hi Zhenka,

Everything you said is pure truth mate, i appreciate your words thank you.

The thing is, my ambitions is really high, i can tell you iam not feeling shy to say that i wanna be able to reproduce effects like the one you can watch in movies like star wars. These studios like INDUSTRIAL LIGHT+MAGIC (ILM) that used maya and compositing to create some sequences most hide secrets.

I was reading a book like the alias/wavefront “the art of maya”. I jumped over my chair when i saw in the table of content that they were going to describe the star wars I as a showcase. Here goes an exerpt when they were “showing” how the tools were used to achieve a complex scene were crowds were battling:

“The plug-in…was used to animate crowds of people, robots, and aliens. This plug-in made use of particles to drive the motion of characters along the ground. Intelligence was added using scripts and expressions so that particle crowd reacted in realistic manner. “carrots” and “skunks” were added to attract and repel the characters, while dynamic rules instructed the particles to make friends, to climb stairs, walk through a doorway, or attack an opposing way…”

Now mate you can understand how i need more specifics before i could “try” anything by myself. I need for instance to be able to have a complete book/DVD/interviews about what these plug-in, intelligence, carrots, skunks, dynamics, expressions, etc, actualy are. I could sure end up finding by myself, but a good timely info could help speed-up findings. You can end up find out how the nasa is launching those rockets in the sky, but a shortcut would be to simply ask/buy the infos. Why remake the wheel all the time?

Thats where you can understand my searches.

[Evrard Blom]

Thanks for your answer. In fact this was not really what i wanted to achieve. Someone gave me a good idea on the premiere forum: put each clip or stills not longer than 1-2 frames, then the burst of images.

[Evrard Blom]

Thanks a lot Steven, i really have learned many new things in this serie of discussions.

[Evrard Blom]

Great Steven, just one more question if you don’t mind: just to know how the things work, how can doing this procedure help accelerate the eventual final rendering of the movie to file?

Thank you

[Evrard Blom]

Very Interesting. Never thought i could render small pieces at a time. That comes to
pre-render one sequence at a time, here and there right?

[Evrard Blom]

“Most of your troubles could be resolved by getting a “real” capture card”

Any suggestion?

[Evrard Blom]

Mylenium, you and Roland touched some interesting point. Unfortunatly iam lacking some premisses to fully profit from your advices.

I am not sure i know the basics about what software-only or hardware-editing are.

“I would give the matter some serious consideration and re-think, if it was really necessary to create the AVI. Of course this depends on what you were intending to do with it, so you may perhaps elaborate on this a bit.
”

I used to work like this:

– I rent a camera or two and capture the event
– Transfer their content up to my computer (mostly in AVI format) so i won’t keep the camera too long
– The raw AVI file then goes into Premiere pro where i make the edit according to the storyboard or customer’s recommendation, do some rotoscoping, apply effects, etc.
-Then i save the final rendering as AVI
– Burn DVDs, etc (i also render some small sequences for the web because sometimes, specially in weddings, the customer wants their friends abroad to look at what they missed)

I can undertand this workflow is far from being the best one lol.

Can you please suggest me a typical worflow to improve this?

Thank you