New crazy project from PPOT

[leoni]

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKKKKAAA!!!

heh.. It looks like you are taking that picture

[beyond]

Oh, I get it. Sorry if I'm not playing along, I'm sure you understand.

[Andreas Wallström]

FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIKKKKAAA!!!

heh.. It looks like you are taking that picture

It does, doesn't it?

Theo, what can you tell us about the gear you're using? Is it your own studio or IO's? What's "crazy" about this project?

[beyond]

Sure. On the photo, I'm using a Canon 20D, w/battery grip, a 24-70 2.8L lens, and a SpeedLite 580EX.

The whole video shoot was done at DIKU, the dept of computer science, University of Copenhagen. All the equipment was borrowed, incl all lights and the Canon 1080i HD video camera. The whole setup had six or seven spot lights/diffuse boxes. The green screen is a huge piece of special light-weight cloth.

The crazyness comes from us doing a full blown music video project with dancers and CGI rendered in HD for a tune project with length 1:40.

More info?

[Andreas Wallström]

I like green screen stuff. It's fun to play with. I do IBM TV here in Sweden and we use that sometime. Problem is that we don't get money for softboxes and stuff like that which would make the end result so much better.

Looking forward to the Pacman vid Theo!!

[beyond]

What do you use for chroma keying?

[Schlicky]

I like green screen stuff. It's fun to play with. I do IBM TV here in Sweden and we use that sometime. Problem is that we don't get money for softboxes and stuff like that which would make the end result so much better.

Looking forward to the Pacman vid Theo!!

I'm also looking forward to this project...

Andreas, are you a fellow IBMer ?

[Analog-X64]

How is the project progressing?

[beyond]

Slowly, I'm sad to tell. I've tried to do some of the stuff that I wanted in 3dsmax but it seems impossible to make an object fade out when the camera approaches it or fade to another shader, just to name a few things. Furthermore I need around 20 angles on a couple of different "sets" - so with max's rendering speed I'm looking at 35 days of rendering on a single machine to get the 20 runs in full HD. Right now I would like to make the project a little longer hence more rendering time.

So I'm writing a specialized ray tracer for the project. Instead of around 2 minuttes per frame (3dsmax w/400 virtual dancers) I'm at 7 seconds right now (2000 dancers). With my ray tracer I can get everything as I like it (real shadows, real motion blur, particle transitions on dancers, etc), which is better of course, but it takes a while to get there

[Analog-X64]

Thanks for the update.

That is quite the undertaking, and how you would go about writing a Ray Tracer, sounds complicated.

I gave up on 3DSMax when it was a DOS based program, I found it complicated. Now I stick with Bryce and Carrara Pro.

You need to get some people to help you with the rendering part of it, to speed things up.