jason1025
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Great tutorials Robert.
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I will Post Pictures.
I got to see Heath and Jason.
It kind of made me feel bad for ever complaining or saying anything negative after meeting these hard working guys in person. While I was there it seemed like every few moments someone would come up and inquire about the improvements about AM and said that they already owned a previous version. To me it is a no brainer when it comes to upgrading as the software is much faster and in conjunction with the included Netrender exponentially faster at rendering.
But as usual it seems people are tight with their money.
On a separate note I saw lots of actors who initially I would not think to be washed up but yet there they were looking lonely, depressed putting on a fake smile and signing auto graphs for 20 a pop little to no crowds around them.
Very depressing.
Jessica from True Blood had a huge crowd around her and I was surprised to see just how photogenic she is , because real life did not flatter her.
Also I expected comic con to have almost everyone dress up but sexy superheros were few and far between the day I went (Saturday)
Over all San diago is beautiful and Comic con is a great experience.
I recommend if you go clean yourself up for the night life strolling around 5th street or so.
I saw about 200 girls walking the streets dressed to kill looking classy, sexy, and sometimes slutty looking to have fun. That was more fun than comic con, But to hang with that crowd you have to be willing to stratal the line between comic con nerd and Nighttime cluber. Or at about 1am go to a 24/7 restaurant called Brians and watch the stumbley half naked nipples popping out of their dress and bending over without wearing underwear crowd stroll in as their night comes to an end and they need to sober up with some food.
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I don't know the magnitude of reach you expect for this logo but ideally you want a level of simplicity that your logo speaks to your brand from 5 pt. type to blown up on a Jumbotron. Think Nike, IBM, McDonalds, and Coke. Ideally, you want it to hold up in low resolution black & white, embroidered on hats, and silk screened on tee-shirts. If the logo relies on color contrast or gradients to be recognizable, a lot of places you want to use it will be hard to implement. A animated version is a very cool but is only useful in video applications. Your animation looks really good and will polish up nicely but I would make sure the final static logo will read on all conceivable uses. It isn't easy, that is why Madison Ave charges big bucks for a logo.
good point
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How's this for a concept?
It would need to be worked up, polished and some sounds added but it gives you an almost self explanatory LD logo.
That has a lot of potential
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I appreciate all your feedback.
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Interesting
Is it something you want to follow up with? By yourself or with me? Either way, there's no charge, it's yours free and clear. There are a million things that could be done. Change the font, change the background, change the colors of the lights, change parameters on the lights, change the colors of the light dims, change the opacity/transparency of the light dims, etc.
I appreciate the help. Its not a bad test. But it has that 1988 CG look to it. I think its going to take a lot of testing and work to get it to 2011. I either want to spend money on someone who can make a cutting edge 2011 look or just try to do it myself.
If you look at Agep work his renders are cutting edge, hi gloss and slick.
I am going for the high production value look.
Thats why I mentioned that I concentrate on the buzz features of AM like radiosity, ao, sss, newton, cloth and so on.
I will probably get some disgruntled feed back from this comment but as the years go by most of the work put out via AM seems to stagnate in time somewhere back in the late 80's.
That might be ok for some just playing around but I work in an HD and higher world. The next gen ipad is going to have a 2K resolution, the next apple monitors are going to be 4k.
The quality and resolution of AM renders need to go up.
Its not our fault. We don't have what other packages do. "HARDWARE rendering" So because it takes forever to render something that looks halfway descent say 2001 ish.
O I know AM can do it, that is Render something that looks like it is cutting edge, but its not easy. Most people cant rap their head around Radiosity even if they do have the render power.
I am extremely appreciative of V16 and its net render not to mention 64bit.
I think something needs to fundamentally change with the software in terms of ease of use for making these high value features like SSS, radisoity, AO, Newton, Cloth, Dynamics, and so on more instant in feedback
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Use lens flare instead of volumetric.
Lens flares seem like a much better solution. I tried playing with lens flares for 45 minutes and couldn't get them to even show up before I realized I had the lights INSIDE the model. Doh! But now it seems to work well.
I played around with the timing quite a bit to get something that seemed well timed to me.
Anyways, I haven't changed the font yet, as Jason hasn't mentioned any preference. The color of the light dims are probably wrong. Should there be more light visible at the end, since they are supposed to be readable but not glaring? Also, I don't have a good eye for lighting, so things could be improved there. And I'm still playing with the background plane.
EDIT: If you want, I could use COMIC SANS for the font! (and this is me ducking!)
Interesting
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just started to play with the hair, but even with 100 density and sss and Fast AO was 2:24 a frame at 720p. Not to bad
Steve
His skin is going a little too blue, try more red. in the SSS
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I tried to do a quick rendition based on Robcat's storyboard, and had some problems with volumetric lights not being blocked out by the "light dim" model being placed in front of it in a chor.
Interesting. Thanks for the effort.
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You are so talented with this stuff.
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I had "Group Think" as well, I just assumed it was something that could not be fixed.
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Robert watch this. Stan reminds me of u
http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episo...ure-getting-old
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Ooo Robert u and your dam logic. If it were up to u Critically acclaimed classics like the Transformers Trilogy would have never been made.
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That was exactly what I was looking for.
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anyone have any ideas?
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I love this idea. But it seems very easily done in AE. How can i do this idea but show off some of AM abilities?
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Im not sure how he did it if its not real.
I shot this the other day.
010611_Timelaps_Valley_email.mov
I invested in some motion control equipment and am experimenting.
Because the dolly aka slider and 2 axis head can be played back I could record the same movement at 2 different exposures or 100 different exposures. Them comp them together. giving an HDR look with actual motion picture.
Does anyone know of a way or app that lets you import say 3 different raw images that are the same just different exposers and then manipulate them as if they were just one picture? I don't know much about still photography or HDRI
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I like it. So how much do I need to pay u and agep to make it happen ?
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So I want to create a 3-4 second cg logo using AM.
Particularly I would like to use some of the cool features of AM or at least 2 or 3.
Like Hair, AO, cloth, Dynamics, Norton, SSS and Radiosity.
This is my site and company. www.lightdims.com
I want to push the envelope but at the same time keep it simple and elegant like something from Apple.
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looking good
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Vern made some incredible progress and put a lot of work into his final peace of cg. I approached him a bout making a site that sold tutorials, he liked the idea and showed me a prototype of the site but quickly disappeared. It was very odd.
I too worried about him.
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This is why I requested that Net render have the ability to utilize a single computer with 15 cores
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very cool experiments guys
Captain Henderson
in Work In Progress / Sweatbox
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Not bad. Some SSS and hair will actually make the imperfections more forgiving and take him to the next level in photorealism. I recommend starting with SSS first You can watch my tut if you need.