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Scifer

Okay dudes, listen up.

I'm doing a final film for my media project at college. It involves guns. Lots of guns. Some of them are radio controlled drone guns like the ones in Goldeneye.

I need one or some of you people to render me some drone guns on a blue/green background that I can merge into my film. Thing is, these drone guns would be dangerous, infeasable and completely illegal to make in rl, so they will have to be done using CG. If I can get this right and merge the CG with the film footage, it will look fantastic. I want to blow my media teacher's mind with this final film! Twisted Evil

The thing is, I haven't got much time. I've got until January at the latest. So whoever takes it on will really need to have nothing better to do. But if you do this for me, you be garrunteed a special place in the credits. Cool

(And I'll owe you one!)

I'll be posting the storyboard ideas on my art site later. Will post a link too.

- Contact me over MSN or yahoo if you fancy some animating! Razz

Little_Dragon · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 8:20 am Post subject:

Tempting, but I'd need to see your video footage in order to match camera angles and lighting, and to time the animation properly.

Do you have any visual examples of these gun drones? I haven't played Goldeneye.

And chroma key can be so messy. Could you handle video with an embedded alpha channel, instead? Poser excels at that sort of thing.

Ryan Fox · Guest

I'm sitting wondering if I should cut off and sell one of my testicles to buy
more hardware. I've got exams to write.. YES I'm writing one tomorrow.. I
just spent a massive amount of money on a huuuuge apartment in another
city, just to add another 3 yrs of study to my current 4.
And then there's that web comic that I hardly get to..

-stands up and screams out of frustration-

Not being able to work on is is sooo frustrating.. It's..
It's driving me loco.
So I'm unable to help at all.

Okay someone put me in straightjacket

Scifer · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 1:38 pm Post subject:

Well I haven't shot the film footage yet, but I've done the storyboards.

Here's the storyboards. (Just a thumbnail though. To save space and loading times depending on the speed of your computer. Just click the picture again to make it bigger. The description of each frame is mentioned below the piccy.)

I could always edit the colour and contrast of the animation once you've done it. But I agree that chroma key (blue/green screen) would probably be the most feasable way of doing it. (See my attachment.) Cool

Little_Dragon · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 4:57 pm Post subject:

How does this look, so far? Not UV-mapped yet. I'll add the camera later.

Scifer · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 6:08 pm Post subject:

WOW!

Drool factor 9 dude!! XD

I just have to know ... how long did that take you?

Mapper · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2004 10:50 pm Post subject:

the dragon has the gift, probably only took him 20mins where it take me 2 days LOL. Wink

Little_Dragon · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 1:55 am Post subject:

Oh, I didn't build the entire thing ... I ripped the main section of the gun from a commercial mesh.

It'd be fairly simple to model from scratch, though, as it's mostly composed of primitive shapes (cylinders, boxes).

I'm going to add some cables, a muzzle-flash effect, and other detail before making it fully posable.

Scifer · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2004 4:55 am Post subject:

Marvelous stuff dragon. I look forward to seeing the results! Razz

*Gives ye a cookie*

Little_Dragon · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:50 am Post subject:

So, have you shot the film footage yet? If not, I'd recommend placing some sort of marker on the ceiling as a visual reference for 3D camera alignment and sentry-gun placement.

Scifer · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 11:24 am Post subject:

I have got some film footage yes. Some are just still pictures and others are moving images. Will make an attempt to upload them asap. :3

Little_Dragon · Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 7:29 pm Post subject:

Fine. I won't need full resolution to sync the CGI ... 320x240 will probably be sufficient.

RenaBhaLL · Guest

is there going to be any way the rest of us furs can watch the final product? I'm really interested in seeing how this turns out.

Scifer · Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2004 8:12 am Post subject:

I'll post the final action scene on my art website when it's done dude! You'll all be able to watch it.

Ryan Fox · Guest

Hmm Maybe I should give this a try and finish this one just to get warmed up
Wink

Don't fret, this is a work in progress model ( I only started with this twe hours ago!) and will have metal skins, moving parts etc >=) an object like this
should have a robotic look to it, complex and agile, fast and deadly..
evil >=)