Star Wars meets the FMA - Take 2

[Bob Hubbard]

Ok, I've been playing around with some stuff...this is a small revamp on an earlier bit I did...keep in mind, its a 'quick and dirty' proof of concept thingy.

The saber blades are individually drawn in each frame requiring 4 passes per frame of animation. (royal PITA). I'm looking at software to streamline the procedure right now.

It needs the 'sparks' stuff added in too, but thats part of the software I'm evaluating.

Lemme know what ya think. Its only 11 seconds long, about 6MB MPG.

http://martialtalk.com/videos/sword2.mpg

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[pknox]

Kaith:

I was unable to play this in Mediaplayer or RealAudio. Does it use a specific codec that I have to download?

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Not that I'm aware of...I'll double check.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Ok, I rerendered it and changed a few settings.

Its 1.93MB now. Standard MPG. (Should be)

 

[Michael Billings]

I like it, since I was at work on a shared T-1 it was somewhat jerky, but with consistant sound. I will see what it is like when I get home, much faster connection.

-Michael

 

[pknox]

Originally posted by Kaith Rustaz
Ok, I rerendered it and changed a few settings.

Its 1.93MB now. Standard MPG. (Should be)

That worked like a charm. Pretty cool stuff! The sound and video synch up quite nicely. Also, it's good to know I'm not the only one who has those sounds going through my head during stick drills.

 

[satans.barber]

The light sabre effects themselves aren't too good - the middle of the sabre looks false, it should blend into the edge more I think - have you seen this?:

http://www.theforce.net/theater/software/premiere/rotoscoping/rotoscoping_finley.shtml

I made this following using those instructions (which is fairly crappy, and just for a laugh, but the sabre blade looks quite good):

http://www.satans.barber.dsl.pipex.com/video/darthian.divx.avi

Ian.

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Not bad. Those are the ones I followed doing mine. Lotta good stuff at that site.