Ron Lindeboom
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No there is no interest in adding Blender, as we once had a Blender forum and it got so little traffic that it eventually collapsed under the weight of all the cobwebs that enveloped it after a while.
Plus, the sound of the echoing footsteps in the great empty room were deafening to the few visitors that went there. As one who is hyper-sensitive to ear problems, I finally killed it out of mercy, not wishing to see it suffer any longer.
So there is little likelihood that there will ever again be a Blender forum in the COW in the future.
Ron Lindeboom
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[Dave LaRonde] “possessing an HDV handycam, a laptop and Adobe Creative Suite qualifies them as the next George Lucas”
It doesn’t, Dave? Damn.
Kathlyn, all that money we spent, well, forget that Star Wars Episode 7 idea that I sold you on…
:o)
Ron Lindeboom
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Thanks for the explanation, it is appreciated. Sometimes, the forum gets used by those who expect to come up with WETA/ILM “just add water” effects techniques by those who don’t want to do any work to get there. (To be honest, for the ones reading this that know they do that, use the basics forum as we will extend a lot more latitude and liberty there than on this forum.)
Thanks again for the explanation, TL.
Ron Lindeboom
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The truth is, if you fail to plan and plan well, you have, well … planned to fail.
Sorry to use such an overused turn of phrase but it is quite true.
You cannot expect to emulate techniques that are drawn from well planned and storyboarded, orchestrated and executed shots that are the basis of the great shots.
Just last week, Kathlyn and I had to sit with a director we are working with who wanted to shot a scene wherein an old actor’s hands get a close up and it’s seen that he has had his fingers cut off while he was in a concentration camp. Well, the guy’s hands are perfectly fine.
I had to explain to the guy that we needed to sketch out the shot. He thought it just happened by magic in post. I asked him, “How?” He couldn’t answer and so I explained what it would take to shoot the shot with markers that could be tracked, what a clean plate is, how to track a shot and why, etc., etc. — he had never done an effects shoot before (he’s a pretty sober storyteller and doesn’t do effects movies). When I was done explaining, he was pretty surprised. “That’s a lot more work than I thought it was going to be,” he said.
It always is.
Unless you want crappy results and are planning on failing.
Ron Lindeboom
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Thanks for the update, Chris.
Sorry that my lead didn’t offer you a workable solution.
Ron Lindeboom
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If I remember correctly, there was a press release in the press release forum here in the COW wherein DigiEffects announced that they had bought Walker FX’s intellectual property like the plug-ins, etc.
Check out the news forum and look there.
DigiEffects may be offering Walker FX users some hope for the future.
Ron Lindeboom
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[Todd Terry] “Rules are made to be broken, I suppose… even one’s own.”
No, Todd. That sends the wrong message, especially to those suffering from pre-gray affliction. ;o)
Instead, I like to say that “For every great rule, there is a great and glaring exception.” That way, I get to keep the rule but make my friends with pre-gray wonder why there’s an exception.
It’s that old ‘kill two birds with one stone’ adage. (But man, just think if that old adage was a rock n’ roll turn of phrase — the face of music could have been changed forever!)
McGyver forum, eh???
Ron Lindeboom
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[Anna Nicholson] “I just installed Magic Bullet v1.0 …”
Version 1.0 of Magic Bullet is years old, Anna. In all likelihood, when you installed it, it overwrote your Quicktime files and took you back into the stone age — or perhaps only as far back as the digital Victorian era. Either way, you are probably up the proverbial creek without the assistance of a digital paddle.
You might want to try getting rid of all the Magic Bullet files and then try reinstalling Quicktime. Hopefully that will work.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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If you are talking about press releases, they are found in the News & Press Releases forum.
You will find it listed with the COW Related forums in the list of forums.
Ron Lindeboom
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Thought Equity Motion is a discount stock footage website — part of Thought Equity — where you can download footage for your projects.
Thought Equity Motion Search is a browser-based search plug-in that you can install that gives you a way to search keywords in the upper right of your browser (as you see in Firefox, IE, etc.) and return the query answers in your browser window for consideration.
If you use their system, click on the banner in the right sidebar and it will give you a registration page that gives you 20% off their order price.
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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