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    Trademark (Sound Mark) Examples

    in Open Forum

    Posted

    I had read somewhere before that the MGM lion's roar had been digitized to create something they could trademark.

     

    I find it curious that the examples for the Lone Ranger are both voiced by William Conrad who only voiced the character for the Filmation TV series in the early '80s.

    Import/Export Color Management issue

    in Open Forum

    Posted

    Just playing around to see what I could do via A:M and Photoshop.

     

    Here's one of your images. I took it into Photoshop and did a few things. The great thing is that you can bring in an image sequence in Photoshop and apply these changes (non permanently) to the whole video rather than having to do a frame at a time.

     

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    There are lots of LUTs out there that you can use to achieve different looks. I bought a bunch during a sale at Film Riot and they are named for the various movies they try to emulate.

     

    Here's another test. I created a material from that concrete image you mentioned and used it to color the mini-figure. I also attached an environment map texture (the model doesn't have any specularity settings.) The top is how I rendered it and the bottom after I played with it to try to make it look like it was on film. Bear in mind, I think everything should look like it was filmed in 1966, so that influences what I do. :-) You can experiment endlessly with what you're doing in Photoshop to get the look you like.

     

    testcolor2.png

     

    I'm just offering up that post-effects may help you to achieve what you're looking for.

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    Import/Export Color Management issue

    in Open Forum

    Posted

    High Dynamic Range (HDR) is frequently used for two different things I've noticed:

     

    HDR photos are composite photos that make use of different images. If you have a figure standing in front of a window, you take multiple exposures so that you have some where the outside appears correctly and some where the figure appears correctly. When composited, you get the appearance that you would expect your eye to have. In truth, they always look far more saturated with color than what you're used to. They are beautiful images, but they are a trick, as they are don't add any color levels to your device.

     

    HDR is also used for the color levels and contrast ratios that a screen can display. It's not about your monitor recreating the light levels of the sun, but how well it can handle darks and lights and the gamut of colors. HDR makes for a much more beautiful and realistic image, but it's limited by hardware. There's no trickery here. The image looks better because you have more color and light information being displayed.

     

    BTB, a CRT allows for a maximum luminance of 100cd/m-squared. An LCD monitor ranges between 250 to 350 cd/m-squared, so there really is a difference. :-)

    Off Topic: Selling Comic Books / Funding this stuff

    in Off Topic

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    Unfortunately, except for some key books, I don't think there's a great market for selling books like there once was. The initial increase in value for comics had more to do with Baby Boomers suddenly having cash in the 80s/90s and being nostalgic for books they had when they were kids that their moms had thrown away.

     

    I did work one convention next to a dealer and he said that there is a group of books that they look for. I don't recall the term he used, but basically they were display-worthy. The ones that they would use to draw people to their booths. Those they would pay decent prices for, but everything else was just filler.

     

    I wouldn't think that selling your collection to a comic book store would be a good idea. I tried selling some of my more valuable issues when I first came out to Dallas and it's an experience that still makes me want to puke. I would later have flashbacks of it every time I watched "Pawn Stars." Yeah, this book is worth $75, but I gotta' hold onto it until somebody willing to pay that much comes in, so I'll give you $2. It was a nightmare.

     

    My guess has always been that it would be more profitable to try to sell the books individually (or in sets) online, but I've had no experience doing that. It certainly would be time-consuming. If it was the early 90s during the speculator boom, you could sell them for big bucks, but that boat sank.

     

    I'd try to bypass the middle-man and sell straight to the collector. Maybe advertise on craigslist or look for a comic book collecting forum or facebook group.

    buildup of rotoscopes

    in New Users

    Posted

    Looking back at the thread, it was an empty rotocontainer tag. I assume on Windows you can do the same, but I searched my drive for files that contained that string. This gave me a list of files to delete the empty container from. Tedious, but it solved the problem. Nancy also describes how it happens, so you can avoid doing that.

    v19.0d

    in * Latest Info *

    Posted

    Just a head's up. I installed the SSE 4.2 version for OSX and it results in my NOT being able to open the application due to a missing library. I was able to re-install v19C and that works fine. I've made a report.

    The Lonesomest Ranger

    in The Wannabe Way

    Posted

    With 2018 starting, it's time for me to make another short and it looks like I'm doing a parody of the Lone Ranger. It's something I've wanted to do for a long time now. I've reached the point that I'm really just making these for myself, so I'm not worried about trying to find an audience anymore. :-)

     

    I've got an enormous amount of work ahead of me, but I think it's going to be fun creating stuff for the Old West. Here's some of the progress so far...

     

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    A Quickie

    in The Wannabe Way

    Posted

    Thanks, guys. I'm not sure if the guy was thrilled with it. He said he liked it (repeatedly, like he was trying to convince me). :-) ...BUT, he hasn't shared it on social media. It could be that he's waiting until closer when the film will be released, but I suspect he might be one of those people who doesn't have a sense of humor and may be embarrassed by the caricature. I hope my intuition is wrong, but if he didn't want funny, he came to the wrong fellow. :-)

    A Quickie

    in The Wannabe Way

    Posted

    A guy who does Star Trek fan films (and I mean a LOT of them) caught me at the right time about doing a poster for one of his movies. I expected it to have Star Trek stuff on it, but no such luck. :-)

     

    I wanted to make something that looked decent, but not require too much work. I'm not sure how much I succeeded on either aspect, but I think it came out pretty cool.

     

    persona_poster_rev.png

     

    Since it was an evil-twin scenario, I only had to model one figure and I actually just used the same model and changed the jacket and hat color in the Cho.

     

    I ended up doing two poses and liked the heads in the first one and the bodies in the second, so I rendered out just the heads with an alpha channel and the bodies without heads with an alpha channel and put the heads on in Photoshop.

     

    I ended up not making the hands part of the model. I just made one hand model and placed them in Cho to approximate where I wanted the hands to go. When the model was rigged with arms, I positioned them to connect with the hands and adjusted the hands where I needed to.

     

    I swiped the hat from the Glenn character I made for "The Wobbling Dead." :-)

     

     

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    Disney buys Fox for $52 billion

    in Open Forum

    Posted

    Not only brings the X-Men characters (and the word "mutant" that couldn't be used) into the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but also, the springboard of the Marvel Universe, the Fantastic Four. Also makes me wonder if they might stick the Fox Fanfare back at the beginning of future Star Wars films. Just doesn't seem the same without it.

    V18 map imports

    in Animation:Master

    Posted

    I'm not positive, but I don't believe so. I had stopped using JPGs (in favor of PNGs), so I didn't notice when the problem first occurred. It was only in instances where I tried to use old materials that had jpegs in them and eventually figured it out. I can't speak for every image type, since I rarely use anything but PNG files. The workaround I used was just to change the images from JPGs to PNGs and work that way. It was annoying since I still liked to grab images off the net for reference and I'd have to convert them before I could place them up as rotoscopes. As far as I've tried, everything seems to work fine in v19.

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