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Particles, Z-Depth and Lens Blur

März 1st, 2009 by Administrator

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the particles used in some bumpers from the 2009 academy award inspired me to do some test-renderings. in this example I used the simple C4D particle system with simple round shapes, camera DOF set and output as rpf (because of the preserved z-depth) with 16bit per pixel. the whole image sequence rendered with AE´s lens blur, some coloring & glowing and time remapping for speeding up at the initial start. one or more of the used effects didn´t support multiprocessor-rendering so the process of creating, rendering and tweaking took me nearly 4 hours.

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Xpresso and TP

Februar 29th, 2008 by Administrator

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so I finally got the opportunity to have a look into Thinking Particles working together with Xpresso.
the video above shows an emitter tangentially aligned to a spline. the particles bounce (even with some friction) when hitting the water – which actually is just a plane bumped with an animated noise shader. and we have this newton-thing … aaahhhh yeah: gravity. I also like all these particle-settings “over lifetime” and i guess i found myself a module of Maxon´s Cinema4D that i´ll upgrade to in the near future.
the depth of field was done in after effects using a rendered z-depth image.
btw: does anyone know why the TP-particles don´t show up in the z-depth-channel ?

//edit: download quicktime HD 1080p h.264

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Sound Driven Properties

Februar 11th, 2008 by Administrator

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i´ve been testing around with sound driven animation …
all keyframes are generated from audio and used in Cinema4D and After Effects.

i´m just eager to get an audio file with some seperated channels for each specific sound so I´ll be able to connect certain properties with a sound or instrument. that should be more accurate than just using the loudness of a frequency range.

please help me out if you´re capable of bouncing out multiple waveform-layers !

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NEW TODAY FOREVER VIDEO

September 4th, 2007 by Administrator

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* now also availabe via P2P (bittorrent-based):

Today Forever – Better Values – HD DIVX avi torrent

Today Forever – Better Values – HD h.264 quicktime torrent

Today Forever – Better Values – HD WMV9 torrent

* now also availabe via P2P (eD2K-based):

Today Forever – Better Values – HD DIVX avi

Today Forever – Better Values – HD h.264 quicktime

Today Forever – Better Values – HD WMV9

* now also availabe via direct download:

Today Forever – Better Values – HD WMV9

Today Forever – Better Values – HD h.264 quicktime

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HVX 200 und mini35

Juni 28th, 2007 by Administrator

Vom 22. bis 24. Juni hatte ich während einer gemeinsamen Musikvideoproduktion mit lucidmedia die Gelegenheit, sowohl mit der Panasonic HVX 200 als auch mit dem P+S mini35 – Adapter zu arbeiten. Das Musikvideo wird für Today Forever´s Song “Better Values” erstellt und es war für mich persönlich DIE gelegenheit, endlich mit der equipment-zusammenstellung zu arbeiten, die ich schon seit dem HVX – announcement in den händen halten wollte. Zusätzlich gabs noch die firestore FS 100, auf der im Format dvcproHD (quicktime) aufgezeichnet wurde, Festbrennweiten-Objektive 18, 50 und 135mm und einen schönen Schien-Dolly.
Das ganze war als 720p angelegt und wer eine antwort darauf findet, warum die Firestore mit 50 statt 25 bildern pro sekunde aufgenommen hat (obwohl die cam auf 25fps eingestellt war), der kann gerne eine Antwort posten.
Der Schnitt erfolgt aus Gründen der Kompatibilität an kompressionlosen AVI-Daten, was zwar pro aufgenommener Minute 4 GByte verschlingt – aber was macht man nicht alles, um Qualitätsverluste von vornherein auszuschliessen …

Nebenbei: Die Arbeit am Set hat eine Menge Spaß gemacht – Danke hier nochmal an alle, die mitgeholfen haben und dank auch an Today Forever, dass wir euch so durchschleifen durften !

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Quake3 – Q3MME

Februar 21st, 2007 by Administrator

playing q3 insta unlagged on “platform6″ – keyframes made with q3mme. opponent: stepel …
enjoy the server !

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