MattHawkins Online - Film Making Forum

I started this originally on the FXhome message board but I thought I would share it with you guys also so here goes: Posted: 02 Dec 2006 02:46 Hey all, I thought I would post some work in progress images of a animated company logo intro that I'm doing for my friends car audio business. http://img29...

Does anyone have any MOV/AVI/Mpeg of various Paint Splatter to which I can use as Mattes? Anyone know of any sites that has free downloads for Paint Splatters? If I had the time and money, I would do it myself, but as it stands right now, my only option is to get some already out there. Thanks agai...

I would say that all of the black outlines was done by rotoscoping. I think....

Oh ok. Do you think that the car is reflecting too much or should I tone it down just a little bit?

Ah I see. Yeah it looks great. I'm trying to duplicate that because the shot is actually nodal pan shot which I tracked in Boujou. But hey man, thanks for your help and tips.

Thats friggin sweet!!

Hey that looks great. What did you do? Add some type of atmospherics to it or something?

Here is a scene with the General Lee composited in with better reflections.

How does this look:

Don't pay attention to the shadowing. This was just a quick render.

the car doesnt look nice at all. its missing bloom and reflections and all around materials that make it look convincing as with most beginner 3d it looks like plastic Yeah I agree with you there. I'm currently searching for better car paint tutorials. As for the lighting, I'm happy with the way th...

Here's another scene I'm working on. Let me know what you think:

aaronv2 wrote:how would you animate it? lol uhh i dunno... rotate it maybe? how come this thread has turned into the helicopter one now lol

I don't know, ask Jimbob. He started it first! lol

rhys wrote:Hey i found this helicopter model: http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/I ... /ID/189734
But how would i animate its blades? I have 3ds max.

Check out:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread. ... =Propeller

Jimbobsquarepants wrote:what a 3d model? i have searched for that you knwo

What kind of chopper are you looking for?

There's free ones on http://www.turbosquid.com

Thats where I downloaded the apache model.

MadCowFilms wrote:I don't have funds. And I've got an amber light for doing auditions at school as my teacher is asking the higher authorities.

What do you need an amber light for auditions for? Are you interrogating them? lol

Jimbobsquarepants wrote:aaron is legend hes making me a haelicopter.

Yeah he's pretty good. Anyways, why don't you download a chopper instead of having him make you one?

CG lighting is hard... harder than lighting for cinema. Lets take a chance to think why. Environmental lighting in CG has to be replicated, you cant set up a light like a sun and expect it to work the way it will in real life. As such in order to understand what needs to be replicated in a CG light...

UFProductions wrote:Looks just about perfect now, I'm curious about what that tree looks like though!

It should be about the same.

Or pay them if you have the funds lol

With fog is definately better, but it seems the tank is too dark compared to the background. I agree with you on that. So what I ended up doing was increasing the output on the tanks texture to brighten it up a bit. Here is a comparison image containing the last render on the right and the new rend...

Thanks for the comments guys! :) Here are 2 images for ya'll to look at. One is with fog around the tank and one with out fog. Which one looks better? No fog: http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/4552/nofogid9.th.jpg With fog: http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/7752/withfogvk4.th.jpg I've toned down t...

In my attempt to better myself in Computer Generated Lighting I have been working on a test scene in 3D Studio max consisting of a tank and an apache helicopter. What I have done was created a landscape scene with trees and stuff in Vue 5 Infinite. That scene is used as the background image in 3D St...

Here's mine from my new company and website:

http://www.visual-chaos.com/vcfx_logo_med.wmv

If you want, you can check out my new website and navigate over to the Clients page as I have done some Production logo intros for some customers.

http://www.visual-chaos.com

I see things never change