Scott Novasic
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NO…. (my shortest answer ever)
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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the cow is a good start. If you want your stuff to get noticed its a combination of putting it on vimeo, the Cow, or you tube and then DRAWING attention too it. Its so hard to easily tell the good stuff from the wastes of time…. self promotion many times is the key to separating yourself from the packs of people on Youtube etc…
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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anyway you can show a sample of what you have done that does NOT look right to you. There are so many different ways to create animated strokes. Some simple, some more complex, and some are more time consuming. All have different times at which you may use them.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
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very interesting. Thanks for sharing.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
ill second the OWC recommendation. I personally have had some problems with the g raids. I have 3 of them on life support, in my cabinet. Luckily I got data off before total failure. I max out my internals
and back up and disconnect my mercury elite drives. I used to love to have all 19 years of my data “live” on firewire 800, ready to go. Over time those g raids just did not, as a whole, want to be on all the time with my CPU. Ultimately they started getting ‘twitchy’…. hahahaha… man, what a nightmare. So I keep my most valuable 4 terabytes of data on my internals with backups manually copied to the OWC mercury elite drives. Not perfect, but affordable. This is not exactly what you asked, but I thought id share my drive experience. Roughly 20 years of it….SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
if your still imagery is very high resolution. say 8000 x 8000 than yes. You can zoom in and see, technically, more detail. All depends on your subject matter. If your zooming in on a sattellite picture of the earth you would continue to see more detail. If it was a super hi rez image of a flower, you may simply see subtle color blends that resolution does not exactly help look ‘better’. If I have enough resolution I keep the source as high as I can throughout the job. Never know when you may need that detail. Also, remember that motion blur will soften an image and its detail somewhat depending on how rapidly you move your imagery..
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
it does not look too bad right now. I like to use a luminance matte to help give me some compositing flexibility. Precomp the footage and crank the levels to taste. This gives me access to all the compositing modes. Also by layering the footage on top of itself you can get additional looks. Saturation can be an issue, but this way you can use any number of techniques to compensate for that.
Frankly, to sell that effect more I would create more realistic glass shattering and other added effects.
Lighten some of the elements withing the blast area that are close but not touching the effect, as these things will be lit up some by the explosion.just some thoughts….
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
well, Jared. You know your stuff. That tells me, without seeing a frame of it that you are right, that simply distorting an image over a number of pixels. Say taking a 3 pixel wide sharp line and distorting it
to 3 or 4 times inevitably will lead to same ‘softening\blurring’ of an image. My thought is that if you want it as ‘focused’ as as possible try a ‘median’ filter or any number of more robust sharpen filters to help the image a bit.Good luck.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
empty your cache as well. You are pushing the memory requirements which also may lead to anomalies.
Also allow for half resolution stuff to show but not full. Also, if you are using a 3d camera check the
aspect ratio setting. Too ‘fisheye’ a setting can lead to odd behavior as well. Open Gl can cause issues previewing, but final render should be fine.SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects -
first I would separate the fields. Interlaced footage can be tricky. Is there a natural motion blur to the footage to begin with? and stating the obvious, check that the Motion Blur setting is off.
SuperNova
Animation & Visual Effects
Scott Novasic
Los Angeles Ca
web:https://web.mac.com/finaleffects