Friday, May 27, 2011
The beginning of the end
I started production on the new sims 3 video yesterday. So far it looks really nice. I'm doing a lot of stuff that I've never done before and some stuff that I've done a long time ago. I think it will take a while to complete because their is a lot of post production work I have to do. That'll be it from here for awhile. Peace!
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Subject lines are my least favorite..
Sooo my new short is up on youtube. You should watch it! Thanks to those who have watched it. Next week I'll probably start working on a Sims 3 video. I'm really glad that my last Sims 3 video Astral will break 10,000 views this weekend! In the world of youtube that actually isn't spectacular but I think it's awesome. You can't even fit 10,000 people in most theaters in the world.
I've been getting really into live action directing. Lets face it. Most of the machinima directors out there make machinima because they don't own a video camera or have 3D animating software. If you do have 3,000 dollars to drop, may I suggest buying the Canon 7D (the one that comes with the lens). Also get a 16 gig Compact flash. It has VERY good 1920 x 1080 HD video. Films in quicktime format. I love quicktime because it's the best format for videos. Gives good colors, and good quality for videos. The people who make South Park use quicktime for all their shots. Like the episode where they captured World of Warcraft footage they captured the video directly to quicktime.
That's my random tangent for the day. Here's Meteor.
I've been getting really into live action directing. Lets face it. Most of the machinima directors out there make machinima because they don't own a video camera or have 3D animating software. If you do have 3,000 dollars to drop, may I suggest buying the Canon 7D (the one that comes with the lens). Also get a 16 gig Compact flash. It has VERY good 1920 x 1080 HD video. Films in quicktime format. I love quicktime because it's the best format for videos. Gives good colors, and good quality for videos. The people who make South Park use quicktime for all their shots. Like the episode where they captured World of Warcraft footage they captured the video directly to quicktime.
That's my random tangent for the day. Here's Meteor.
Saturday, May 7, 2011
Meteor part II
I have spent all day today working on the new short. I doesn't feel like it because most of the time has been spent rendering each frame. I'm currently four shots from going into post production and I'm rendering a 250 frame shot. It's taken three hours so far. It is going slower than usual. The shot is a very complicated shot though. I'm excited for May 12th.
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Meteor
It's about time I get another video on my youtube channel. I've been working on this animation for months. A few weeks ago I started working on the short more intensely. I gave myself a deadline of May 12, just so I'll actually finish it. This short animation is being created in Maya. The short is called Meteor.
I'm about 90 percent done with it right now. Yesterday I began on the last scene and started working with the last set. You probably won't notice but I separated different effects that I wanted to pursue into different sets. I did that to keep animating smooth, well as smooth as possible. What I forgot to mention is that I'm working on a glitchy windows computer. It's the same computer I made my other animation shorts with and I made Rockstar and Wendy with that computer. The computer is now glitchy and will randomly freeze when it feels like it. Sometimes It'll run for hours and hours but other times it will freeze when it boots up. It's been an adventure.
I render the finished animated shots into TIFF pictures and then run them over to my Macbook. Once the frames are on the Macbook I run them through After Effects to do some touch ups. I render that into a quicktime video and edit the shot in Adobe Premiere. When I'm in the editor I conform the shot into a 720 size. It was originally rendered into a standard 640 size.
I am so excited to show this short on May 12. It will be the first animated short from me in two and a half years. I believe it's my best one yet. Well, you'll be the judge of that won't you?
I'm about 90 percent done with it right now. Yesterday I began on the last scene and started working with the last set. You probably won't notice but I separated different effects that I wanted to pursue into different sets. I did that to keep animating smooth, well as smooth as possible. What I forgot to mention is that I'm working on a glitchy windows computer. It's the same computer I made my other animation shorts with and I made Rockstar and Wendy with that computer. The computer is now glitchy and will randomly freeze when it feels like it. Sometimes It'll run for hours and hours but other times it will freeze when it boots up. It's been an adventure.
I render the finished animated shots into TIFF pictures and then run them over to my Macbook. Once the frames are on the Macbook I run them through After Effects to do some touch ups. I render that into a quicktime video and edit the shot in Adobe Premiere. When I'm in the editor I conform the shot into a 720 size. It was originally rendered into a standard 640 size.
I am so excited to show this short on May 12. It will be the first animated short from me in two and a half years. I believe it's my best one yet. Well, you'll be the judge of that won't you?
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