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(17 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Didn't Prime Focus just buy DNeg, too?

1,377

(262 replies, posted in Episodes)

Yeah, been talkin' about it. Looks like we're gonna go in a different direction this weekend, but may well get to it soon after.

1,378

(168 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I've been listening to the whole mixtape on Grooveshark so much.

1,379

(3 replies, posted in Off Topic)

http://www.friendsinyourhead.com/forum/img/hk-afraidtodie.jpg

You can make your own using this PSD or this blank image. Blame Screwball and BDA.

1,380

(114 replies, posted in Creations)

I wanted to make an image macro to break the tension in here, and I ended up making something so much worse than the tension in here.

http://www.friendsinyourhead.com/forum/img/hk-getalong.jpg

Thanks to Screwball and BDA for this goddamned horror. I will love it for the rest of my life.

1,381

(22 replies, posted in Creations)

(Fixed your video link. The YouTube embed code on the forum wants two things: 1. "http" instead of "https," and 2. the most-basic version of the link possible, with no modifiers after the jibberish-URL. Links exactly like the following will end up workin' with the code: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QhpR-UP8qg")

Fucking awesome, Sam. The smooth animation on the timelapse is killing me, that's so cool.

My only critique, and I'm not a soft-body guy, would be that it seems you've got your Big Contours down, and your Small Contours down, but the sort-of Medium Contours aren't strongly represented. In other words, you've got good bone shape goin,' and you're painting in good surface-wrinkles... but stuff like big skin folds and droopiness aren't coming across.

http://media4.s-nbcnews.com/i/streams/2013/August/130819/6C8681102-130819-van-dyke-4x3-658pp.jpg

Sorry Dick, I need your face! (I like to think Dick would get a kick out of being used as an example in a 3D modelling conversation; he's an old Lightwave guy, from even back in the Video Toaster days. He is our people.)

In your model, I see big stuff (sunken cheeks) and small stuff (crows feet, laughlines) but not the medium stuff; general blobbiness of the subcutaneous layer, a second fold behind the dimple, skin bunching up over the top of the nose, etc.. My only critique would be spend some time futzing with that medium-sized sculpt zone.

(Note: I don't actually know what I'm talking about.)

1,382

(114 replies, posted in Creations)

It seems like you two are talking past each other and only getting further from understanding as a result. Let's leave it at "sorry for the misunderstanding" and move on.

1,383

(9 replies, posted in Episodes)

1,384

(168 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Honestly, thanks for that write-up.

Eddie Dotied.

1,386

(19 replies, posted in Off Topic)

*looks around*

No response. None.

I spent hours on that. Someone compliment us.

1,387

(11 replies, posted in Episodes)

Me and thewalkindude. Us against the world.

1,388

(538 replies, posted in Creations)

As I was sayin' previously, we might be able to do the sabers with simple tricks and nonsense. Those pink sabers are mighty isolatable. In any case, we'll do-like-we-do on Pink Five: whatever's your pleasure that gives me accurate white cores, do that. Glows can be added to white cores no matter how they were made.

For fun, here's what-I-did as an animation preset. Just load a shot and then load this on that layer, it should get you most of the way there. (Not all the way there, but.)

For more fun, here's an uncompressed shot to test it on.

1,389

(538 replies, posted in Creations)

I like that idea.

1,390

(538 replies, posted in Creations)

Holy shit.

1,391

(7 replies, posted in Off Topic)

*blows whistle*

*no barking*

Mine doesn't.

1,392

(538 replies, posted in Creations)

Hey, lookit that! A thing!

1,393

(538 replies, posted in Creations)

What are you cutting in, BTW?

1,394

(538 replies, posted in Creations)

Alrighty, what's the plan for editors at this point? I know Owen is cutting, is Dave also cutting? What's the division of labor there?

In any case, here's all the footage wrapped up in one 3.5 gig ZIP. Do our server a favor and only download the raw footage if you're gonna be editing it.

Owen, if you wanna do a long rough-cut first, so we can see what we have and Zarban can plan reshoots and inserts we might need, that'd be great. Then you can go all edit-wizard on it and tighten things up as you see fit. Once we have a relatively locked cut, we can start doling out VFX tasks.

1,395

(27 replies, posted in Episodes)

Oh.

Maybe bronze.

1,396

(538 replies, posted in Creations)

Ha. Had everyone goin' with my mod-voice, huh? But seriously, if we need roto, everyone's rotoin.' Everyone but me.

Anyway.


Do me a favor and add your info to the "Artist" sheet. (If for some reason you don't want people to know your email, just shoot an email to friendsinyourhead@gmail.com sayin' so.) Once we get started on everything, I'll get in touch with everyone and we'll talk about shots. I'm pretty sure that everyone can have at least one or two shots, but that nobody is gonna have more than three or four. It's a small show.

1,397

(538 replies, posted in Creations)

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT:






















































Dave has volunteered to do all the roto on the entire show.

1,398

(27 replies, posted in Episodes)

Fun fact: this officially wins the silver medal in the "most-damned episode" category. (Titanic still has the gold.) A lot of things went wrong in the data portion of my job on this one, and only now, a day late and a buck short, do you finally get to enjoy it.

It's a fun episode, though, so we'll call it a win.

1,399

(538 replies, posted in Creations)

I'll be swinging through in a few hours (or maybe tomorrow; just got back to LA and still haven't even posted a FIYH episode yet, much less this-stuff) to lay out the official VFX tasks and all that, as well as editing and whatnots. Dibs will be considered final after that.

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(538 replies, posted in Creations)

Actually, it'd be pretty easy to do this with a still frame out of Terragen that gets animated in After Effects.

(And for what it's worth, I kinda like the blown-out look.)