John Dickinson
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Sorry people, wrong address. Try this one 🙂
https://www.motionworks.com.au/z_other/downloads/camera%20setup%20example.sitx
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au -
Okay you can download an example of how to set up a camera using expression sliders here:
https://www.motionworks.com.au/z_other/projects/camera%20setup%20example.sitx
Enjoy!
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au -
Okay you can download an example of how to set up a camera using expression sliders here:
https://www.motionworks.com.au/z_other/projects/camera%20setup%20example.sitx
Enjoy!
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au -
Intriguing. Does the 3D object have any special meaning?
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
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Thanks, the song is “The Day Brings” by Brad. I edited the base (with the promo producer) to the track before preparing the graphics, then used a little thumbnail movie in the corner of my comp as a guide to make sure each cube hit it’s mark in time with the original edit.
cheers,
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au -
Thanks, the song is “The Day Brings” by Brad. I edited the base (with the promo producer) to the track before preparing the graphics, then used a little thumbnail movie in the corner of my comp as a guide to make sure each cube hit it’s mark in time with the original edit.
cheers,
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au -
I’ll set up a project tonight with the camera settings I used and let you know where you can download it. I had about 8 weeks on this one (about 7 hours a day), but had to do another job in parallel so couldn’t give you an exact hourly figure. The rotoscoping and clean plate creation obviously took the longest. I also spent some time refining the look of the actors. The animation took about 2.5 days to get right. The job had a set fee and a long deadline so I was able to finesse things a lot more than I would normally get time for.
best,
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au -
I’ll set up a project tonight with the camera settings I used and let you know where you can download it. I had about 8 weeks on this one (about 7 hours a day), but had to do another job in parallel so couldn’t give you an exact hourly figure. The rotoscoping and clean plate creation obviously took the longest. I also spent some time refining the look of the actors. The animation took about 2.5 days to get right. The job had a set fee and a long deadline so I was able to finesse things a lot more than I would normally get time for.
best,
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au -
Thanks for the compliments 🙂 All of the rotoscoping was done in AE using the Rotobezier function. I precomposed the footage with the Posterize Time effect set to 5 frames per second which mean’t I only had to roto every 5th frame. Although the strobing effect was a design decision it saved me time with the roto work but it still took a while preparing so many clips. The camera was actually pretty easy to control, I parented the camera to a 3D null then set up expression effects linked to the null’s X and Z position, that way I could use sliders to track the camera left and right and dolly it in and out. But I agree that getting the camera to do what you want takes a little practice 😉
best,
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au -
Thanks for the compliments 🙂 All of the rotoscoping was done in AE using the Rotobezier function. I precomposed the footage with the Posterize Time effect set to 5 frames per second which mean’t I only had to roto every 5th frame. Although the strobing effect was a design decision it saved me time with the roto work but it still took a while preparing so many clips. The camera was actually pretty easy to control, I parented the camera to a 3D null then set up expression effects linked to the null’s X and Z position, that way I could use sliders to track the camera left and right and dolly it in and out. But I agree that getting the camera to do what you want takes a little practice 😉
best,
JD
John Dickinson
Motionworks
http://www.motionworks.com.au