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April 16, 2007
lsgl: beacon mock-up
by sven at 11:59 pm
I feel like I'm back in the belly of the beast... When I wake up, the first thing I think about is what has to happen next on the movie -- and as I'm drifting off to sleep, it's the same.
Today's project was to do a mock-up of the distress beacon. I'm not satisfied with the shape of the thing yet... But I've got a "metal" texture that I could live with -- and the last-minute test of putting a light inside of the thing is promising.
Friday and Saturday were spent trying to get my old DV footage to fit the new storyline. I've pulled out every trick I can think of:
- flipping the image, so the characters face in the opposite direction
- shrinking the footage down to make the characters seem farther away
- taking characters from two different shots and compositing them together
- speeding up and/or slowing down footage
- running footage backwards
See, what was the Captain beckoning in a previous shot -- it becomes an angry gesture when run backwards! (Why not?) ...Makes my brain hurt, but I'm getting somewhere. And I figure I'd better be front-loading as much of the work as possible.
posted by sven | April 16, 2007 11:59 PM | comments (3) | categories: let sleeping gods lie
Comments
exciting stuff!!!
jriggityPosted by: justin rasch at April 17, 2007 12:14 PM
Thanks Justin! When I finally have all my CG elements created -- boy, will that be a load off my mind... :-)
Posted by: Sven Bonnichsen at April 18, 2007 12:55 AM
Belly of the beast! That's EXACTLY it, Sven. EXACTLY. These consuming projects are like sitting inside a whale!! I'll have to read that story to see how this all turns out.
Posted by: shelley Noble at April 18, 2007 10:59 AM