[Ntgeek]

Tracking. . . noooo. Its magically done by itself.

I know your pain too well.

There is a product called Elastic Reality which has been absorbed into Avid. I dont know if its even available as a plugin for anything Adobe and I have not been able to see what it can spit out in terms of quality. The stuff that I have seen looks cartoonish.

I know what you are saying with crazytalk. Essentially, the latest one allows you to move stuff around. The theory here would be to take that tiny bit and animate it, use something like After Effects, etc., to cut out just the part you want, then lay it over the relevant portions. About the only problem I see here is that, well, what happens if our friend decides to change from left to right. Talk about frame by frame nightmare.

I am going to see what I can dig up in terms of elastic reality and see if its really worth the bucks.

Walt

[Ntgeek]

Thanks Mike,

I have that software in my inventory. The big problem with that software is that you need to start off with a still image.

So lets say we shoot a video of a horse walking from one side of the screen to the other and we want him to say something, or appear to say something. What would we use then.

Is anybody aware of any commercially available software yet that would permit us to do this?

Regards,

Wakt

[Ntgeek]

Lastly. I think that my biggest obscacle here is how to take a simple photoshop shape (say a circle) and truly convert it into something inside of illustrator in such a way that Zakwerks will like and accept. Preferably with the color that I have used in photoshop. I think this is where my greatest obstacle is because when I use pre-canned illustrator files (such as the smiley face) it seems that there are layers and paths that I cannot seem to reproduce inside of illustrator using my imported photshop images. When I use autotrace, I get a black black ball but I would like color, unless that color needs to be determined inside of zakwerks.

Again, any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Walt Ellena

[Ntgeek]

Well. . .

It would help if I checked “use illustrator colors” when I brought the object in!

Other than that, any pointers, tips, etc. would still be appreciated.

Regards,

Walt Ellena

[Ntgeek]

What really did it for me and gave me a jump start was finding illustrator files from sample tutorials, etc – actually, I got a boatload of them. There is a smiley face in here somewhere along with an MTV logo as well as an Adobe logo. Regardless, when I brought them in, Invigorator started to do all sorts of things and I reverse-learned the process.

Regards,

Walt Ellena

[Ntgeek]

Hello again,

I see that I can also export the layers from photoshop, but again, is that a function of the layers menu. Also, this live trace in AI, is it a “cow” (no pun intended) or are there some pointers you could point me towards, tutorials, etc?

Regards,

Walt Ellena

[Ntgeek]

So. . . .what you are saying is that first I have layers in photoshop. Then I have to make paths for each layer in photoshop. Then I have to export each of those layers in illustrator. That seems fairly straightforward. The bit actually about how a layer in photoshop relates to a path is what I could never understand.

Also, assuming that I can get that far, is there an export command for each path or is it a global export paths to illustrator bit?

Thanks for your help, its a joy to be here.

Walt Ellena

[Ntgeek]

And another thing. . .

I have been using photoshop, but I see a lot of stuff with Zak talking about illustrator. Hmmm. You guys possibly think I need that “Cow” rather than photoshop, or a combination thereof?

This is so much fun!

Thanks again.

Walt Ellena

[Ntgeek]

And another thing. . .

I have been using photoshop, but I see a lot of stuff with Zak talking about illustrator. Hmmm. You guys possibly think I need that “Cow” rather than photoshop, or a combination thereof?

This is so much fun!

Thanks again.

Walt Ellena

[Ntgeek]

Having a boss who does not care how much it costs, just how much its worth has its good points.

I just went and got myself Zakworks 3D invigorator without an issue. Its done. Problem is that now all I seem to be able to do is do something with a ball.

Are there any tutorials out there that you guys know of?

Its great to learn, but this is pretty darn hard actually. Should I be getting another product in addition to the plug in?

Regards,

Walt Ellena