Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 28, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted August 28, 2010 so what is this exactly? you just make a short film and send it in using just this scene? basically what part of the first page do you have Questions about? Quote
thejobe Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 i mean is this a contest? is this part of a bigger movie going on or is this just the collection of the scene put into one thing? Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 28, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted August 28, 2010 i mean is this a contest? is this part of a bigger movie going on or is this just the collection of the scene put into one thing? No, it's not a contest. It's our annual everyone-can-play forum project, like the previous "pass the ball" or "Stereoscopic AniJam" projects. I hope you'll join in! Quote
thejobe Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 I can try but I'm completely horrid at animating Quote
TheSpleen Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 I can try but I'm completely horrid at animating You can't be any worse than me. Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 28, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted August 28, 2010 I can try but I'm completely horrid at animating Try something simple and short. Even a few seconds will do. Quote
fae_alba Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 I can try but I'm completely horrid at animating My friend, there is only one way that you will improve; that's by doin'. No one judges; it's all an even playing field on these forum projects. Quote
thefreshestever Posted August 28, 2010 Posted August 28, 2010 i´m also in! rendertime with 1 character in the scene in 854x480 on a 2 x 2,8 ghz quad-core intel mac: with v16beta: 1:38 min!!! with v15: 3:50! Quote
thejobe Posted August 31, 2010 Posted August 31, 2010 i got something that looks like an animation but got a problem... with the current settings you have for the prj. for a 6 secs video to render it says the average time for it to finish is somewhere around 545 hours.... i dont think i can let my computer run for that long on a single render... is there a faster way to get it to render Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 31, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted August 31, 2010 i got something that looks like an animation but got a problem... with the current settings you have for the prj. for a 6 secs video to render it says the average time for it to finish is somewhere around 545 hours.... i dont think i can let my computer run for that long on a single render... is there a faster way to get it to render My old PC had a weaker AMD cpu than yours and the render time for the set was about 5 mins per frame. What sort of models have you got in there? Quote
thejobe Posted August 31, 2010 Posted August 31, 2010 just 2 ships i built back in version 12 their not that complicated ship one has 540 patches ship two has 1940 which is only on screen for 3 secs out of the 6 secs that the whole video is. 1 pass is taking roughly 20 mins to do. and no i have nothing running in the background Quote
thejobe Posted August 31, 2010 Posted August 31, 2010 just 2 ships i built back in version 12 their not that complicated ship one has 540 patches ship two has 1940 which is only on screen for 3 secs out of the 6 secs that the whole video is. 1 pass is taking roughly 20 mins to do. and no i have nothing running in the background Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted August 31, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted August 31, 2010 just 2 ships i built back in version 12 their not that complicated ship one has 540 patches ship two has 1940 which is only on screen for 3 secs out of the 6 secs that the whole video is. 1 pass is taking roughly 20 mins to do. and no i have nothing running in the background Since you have a 64bit OS try the v16 beta Quote
thejobe Posted August 31, 2010 Posted August 31, 2010 For some reason the v16 doesn't render right Nd everything comes out black or it has a solid color to it when its suppose to have texture. Quote
John Bigboote Posted September 6, 2010 Posted September 6, 2010 I was having trouble getting a good idea for this... so I decided to animate a joke... I googled 'bus stop jokes' and every one was TERRIBLE so I was still stuck. Then- last night in my dreams I dreamt I was at a bar and a guy was telling me a bus stop joke... it started off just like one of the bad ones from my google search...but ended much funnier and I laughed myself awake. Dawn asked me why I was laughing and I told her the joke... and she thought it was funny too! It is still NOT appropriate for our movie... but it sure got the juices flowing and lead me in another direction and I now have an idea I am happy with... but I wanted to tell the joke--- so here it goes! THE JOKE FROM MY DREAM: (somewhat adult in nature...) These two fellas are sitting at a bus stop when the bus pulls-up and off come 3 beautiful women who stand and wait for the next bus... one guy says to the other "watch this pickup line... it's guaranteed to work on 1 out of 3 women!" SO the guy goes up to one the first woman and says "Tickle your ass with a feather?" The woman says 'WHAT?!!!" and the guy quickly says 'The weather, particularly nasty weather...?" The woman gives him a nasty look so he tries the line on the 2nd woman with the same results... shot down. He then winks at his buddy and approaches the 3rd girl... 'Tickle your ass with a feather?" She smiles and says 'How big is your feather?" and off they go together. Now the other fellow can't believe this... "guaranteed to work on 1 in 3" he muses. I'll give it a try. The bus then pulls up and off come 3 more women who sit together... the guy figures he'll try them all at once to save time, so he approaches them and says 'Tickle your-" just then he noticed the 3 women are NUNS so he quickly abandones the line. "Did you say something?" the nuns ask.... he backpedals and says "Isn't this particularly nasty weather we are having?" The 1st nun says 'Yes, rained all week...!" The 2nd nun says 'overcast and windy!" The 3rd nun says 'How big is your feather?" Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 8, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted September 8, 2010 i won't be able to jump into this on Oct 6 so new deadline October 20 This means if you thought you didn't have enough time to do a segment, you now have 6 weeks to give it a try! Of course you can still turn in your segment on October 6 if you feel you're done. Quote
fae_alba Posted September 9, 2010 Posted September 9, 2010 i won't be able to jump into this on Oct 6 so new deadline October 20 This means if you thought you didn't have enough time to do a segment, you now have 6 weeks to give it a try! Of course you can still turn in your segment on October 6 if you feel you're done. that is truly good news. i was beginning to worry I wasn't going to make it sense I'm crunched with work now and am going on vacation Oct 2nd....Now I can do it..yeah... Quote
Gerry Posted September 11, 2010 Posted September 11, 2010 Rob, the new deadline is great news. It gives me a lot more flexibility, though in thinking about my wip I'm actually close to being finished except for the rendering. Quote
thefreshestever Posted September 14, 2010 Posted September 14, 2010 rob, i´m done with my sequence... is it ok to upload it on sendspace and send you a link? Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 14, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted September 14, 2010 rob, i´m done with my sequence... is it ok to upload it on sendspace and send you a link? Sure. It will download like any other link, right? Quote
thefreshestever Posted September 14, 2010 Posted September 14, 2010 rob, i´m done with my sequence... is it ok to upload it on sendspace and send you a link? Sure. It will download like any other link, right? right the audio is in the same folder as the jpg-sequence as a wav file... it´s the same length as the sequence. http://www.sendspace.com/file/wve12n Quote
dblhelix Posted September 16, 2010 Posted September 16, 2010 thank you mtpeak2 for the experience of opening a real 3D set, n00b made eyes like never before! question: what kind of props are we allowed to add? or, maybe for the shorter list: what kind of props are not recommended? Quote
mtpeak2 Posted September 17, 2010 Posted September 17, 2010 Any prop that a character can carry in or out of the scene. Props that look like they are part of the set are not a good idea. Quote
John Bigboote Posted September 27, 2010 Posted September 27, 2010 I just breezed thru this whole thread and missed the info I need... Rob- what is the preferred method of delivering our contributions to you... do we upload it to the forum? Quote
John Bigboote Posted September 28, 2010 Posted September 28, 2010 Is there an email address or FTP or Dropbox account that we can use to get our submissions to you? Quote
TheSpleen Posted September 28, 2010 Posted September 28, 2010 Is there an email address or FTP or Dropbox account that we can use to get our submissions to you? mine are ready as well Quote
John Bigboote Posted September 28, 2010 Posted September 28, 2010 I can compress it like crazy and email it... what email address should I send it to? OR- Rob, do you use Dropbox? It's free and easy... tell em I sent you (matt@campbellanimation.com) you can give us the link and we can write to it... Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 28, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted September 28, 2010 drop box will probably work fine since i don't have to sign up for anything to download. I think the top of the thread mentioned to render it to a JPG series, right? Quote
TheSpleen Posted September 29, 2010 Posted September 29, 2010 ok I went and got dropbox. How do I get it so you can grab the files? Quote
wedgeeguy Posted September 29, 2010 Posted September 29, 2010 Gene ... If you rendered out the images as TGA instead, remember that you can use Animation Master to convert those images to JPG and then you are back in business. Of course that is if you don't have a separate video editor program. If you don't know the steps to do this then just say so and I will walk ya through it. I just converted 300 some odd TGA image files to JPG as a test and it took about 3 minutes to do it ... no re-rendering required. The only thing I would do is change the default JPG compression from 34% (that was what it was set to in the default project) to maybe something like 50%. The compression artifacts won't be quite as noticable. My JPG image sequence with the two audio files (one for the sound one for the sound effects) only weighed in at about 32 MB. Just let me know .... Bruce Quote
wedgeeguy Posted September 29, 2010 Posted September 29, 2010 Oh, by the way Robert, in case you missed my other post in this section ... You can download my JPG and audio files from here: http://www.pencilwedgees.com/BusStop.html ... It's about 32 MB in size Thanks! Bruce Quote
TheSpleen Posted September 29, 2010 Posted September 29, 2010 I have it in jpg format in dropbox/public folder Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted September 29, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted September 29, 2010 You can use a high JPG setting like 85%. that looks pretty much uncompressed for most purposes and won't be too large. I haven't gotten around to downloading anyone's yet, I've been otherwise occupied. Quote
TheSpleen Posted September 29, 2010 Posted September 29, 2010 I decided to not use the last clip I made and just offer the first 3 Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 1, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted October 1, 2010 20 days to get your segment done. That's lots of time to do something short and snappy if you haven't started yet. Quote
John Bigboote Posted October 1, 2010 Posted October 1, 2010 Skydrive is another cool free service that may be helpful in getting your sequence to Robcat. It is part of the Microsoft-Google-Hotmail umbrella, so Apple folk could be alienated...but with a 25 GB limit... free... http://explore.live.com/windows-live-skydrive We would need an email address from Rob that we could direct to... Quote
John Bigboote Posted October 8, 2010 Posted October 8, 2010 ROB- Here is my submission. I did not want to share it with the masses, but I can't think of any other way to get it to you- and just you. Also, you wanted individual jpeg frames- but I made a Quicktime... this way I am sending you one link and not 500+. Let me know if you really-really need frames, I'll figure another way to send it... I'll probably need your email address so I can send you a link to a dropbox folder. -Thanks! http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5257446/BUSSTOP_Matt%20Campbell1.mov Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 8, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted October 8, 2010 Should anyone prefer to send me a link by email the emails from via the forum seem to get to me. Go to my profile page and at the bottom is "Send an email" Quote
Gerry Posted October 9, 2010 Posted October 9, 2010 I'll prabably upload my files to my ftp space and send you a link to download. Quote
Gerry Posted October 11, 2010 Posted October 11, 2010 Will the bus entry/exit have sound? Are other folks planning on having sound? Mine is just about done and it's really crying out for audio, but I don't know if I'll have time to add it, and it's tearing me up inside I tells ya! Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 11, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted October 11, 2010 Will the bus entry/exit have sound? Are other folks planning on having sound? Mine is just about done and it's really crying out for audio, but I don't know if I'll have time to add it, and it's tearing me up inside I tells ya! You may use sound if you wish. Quote
Gerry Posted October 11, 2010 Posted October 11, 2010 ...and if wishes were horses, beggars would ride! Quote
Gerry Posted October 11, 2010 Posted October 11, 2010 Hey Robert, I emailed you a link for my download. It's big, about 80mb. Let me know if you have any problems with it. I also put my entry on YouTube, at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK2OwMiA11Q Quote
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted October 12, 2010 Author Hash Fellow Posted October 12, 2010 At least 8 more days to do magic Bus Stop animation! Quote
TheSpleen Posted October 12, 2010 Posted October 12, 2010 https://www.dropbox.com/home#/Public/bus1::: https://www.dropbox.com/home#/Public/bus2::: https://www.dropbox.com/home#/Public/bus3::: Quote
mouseman Posted October 13, 2010 Posted October 13, 2010 At least 8 more days to do magic Bus Stop animation!... And render ... Not sure I'll make it. ETA: Will v16 help out with render times? I have a dual core AMD Turion 64 x2 Mobile TL50 (1.6 GHz). Is it risky to switch from 15 to 16 right at the end like that? Quote
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