I see what you're sayin', but I kind of like how it looks.

I like the idea of it being more transparent, like the movie holograms. Love the projection idea. And that camera angle is fantastic, by the way.

Ha ha! Coming along!

The original inspiration for the holograms (see the first post in this thread) featured a holographic screen with buttons and things to manipulate. Can we do something like that? It won't look right without something for her to be interacting with.

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Awesome screwball, no worries we're all just doing what we can!

Master Z, yeah, the holo keyboard bit has me struggling a little, but it's in the plan. I'd love to have someone log that shot frame-by-frame, describing her gestures so we could figure out what the interface is doing.

That's exactly what I was thinking FP. It looks like she was making a hash of pokes and slides. So a list of the most obvious such gestures (i.e. the ones that should have related actions in the holo-interface) would be cool, timestamps would be the icing on that cake. From there we could establish the menu-tree she was navigating and viola. TBH I'm just guessing at the best way to get there, so anything you can come up with will be progress.

Thanks!!

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Get well man. I've been home sick this week too, but was way too bad off for being useful. I had to show up at work today to spread some germophobia around so they knew I wasn't just playing hooky.

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OMG dude, I knew there was a lot going on, but whoah.

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Niken does some similar (but much simpler) gestures while seated in his ship.
I'm off to see if that sequence is still publicly viewable...
gotit:

Niken gestures to switch calls at about 2:40. I think that's it.

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The idea is that she's initiating a trace to determine his location and then alert her master. So if there is a little swirly interface of indeterminate touch points and then a display of "TRACING LOCATION" followed by "SENT TO MASTER", that would suffice.

Bump.

It occurs to me that another workaround is cutting away to a readout within the hologram so we get away from the manipulation and just see the results.

BTW, the kids are now too old for reshoots, soooo if we need to cut back to just the swordfight to get a final film....

Last edited by Zarban (2015-04-16 22:29:54)

Any movement on this? The kids are still excited to see a finished cut of something.

Force-Lightning, I presume? I am excite.

I've done nothing on this lately. Sorta hoping the coming semester end frees up a couple more artists; several of our original volunteers turned to pumpkins when summer ended.

This is terrific, man. I'd love to see the light sabers done on this. I think the rest of the fight is edited together too, right? If we could get the lightsabers done and this added to it, we'd really have something.

So, yesterday was the one-year anniversary, and I was hoping to have the movie released by then. Not quiiiiiiite there, although most of the work that remains is touching base with Drew and putting pre-made FX over new plates and stuff like that. He's on vacation at the moment, we'll do that when he's back in front of a computer.

In the meantime, here's a teaser showing off some of the newly-completed work. (In other words, I just put a lot of the new shots to music because I was bored.)

Here's the same file as a downloadable thing, if anyone wants it.