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  1. Nate North

    video How do I make a video like this?

    Sorry didn't see this thread for a while. Sean is right about everything, but I'll see if I can add a bit of helpful detail. This video relies mostly on a few specific effects. I can only tell you the DaVinci specific names, but the effects should be named something similar in all editing...
  2. Nate North

    website Maryland's Best Photographer

    The blogs are a good idea, from a google visibility perspective. SEO is kind of a big deal. Bad side, you have to do a bunch of extra stuff to become visible, good side, it's not that bad, and you can get half way there by just optimizing the page itself for SEO and then doing a few backlinks...
  3. Nate North

    website Maryland's Best Photographer

    Looks really good. Much more impact in this version, though you might consider shortening the vertical on the front page centerpiece carousel. Rule of thumb is that if you want people to scroll down to see what's underneath an image, they need to be able to see on load that there is something...
  4. Nate North

    Leap

    Looking really good! Nice work on the casket composite.
  5. Nate North

    The Super Panavision 70 AI Craze

    In a general response to the comments above: It's all about the ratio of artist to tool. At one end of the slider, you have the spirograph. It holds the pencil for you, and makes perfect pictures of spirals. It looks cooler than a bad hotel painting, but after 10 minutes all spirographs look...
  6. Nate North

    The Super Panavision 70 AI Craze

    This is just something fun that I think people might enjoy. While commercial AI filmmaking platforms are still very limited, and can't really tell stories, they can do THIS, which is fun for a minute.
  7. Nate North

    The Bat and the Furious (Brickfilm Short)

    Nice work man! It got me thinking, there is probably a way to make this way easier. I think that in the near future I can build a special pipe for stop motion, where all it does is just remove your hand and fill in the places where it was based on other frames. If so, you could basically do...
  8. Nate North

    Save Point 7.4 pipeline update

    Sure but the big question is when rather than if, If I can't find an open source project almost immediately i'll likely have to try and proceed along a similar technology track simply because of the current obsolescence curve, which is completely insane. If you told people 100 years ago that...
  9. Nate North

    Save Point 7.4 pipeline update

    I took a look at it, and it looks good. Microsoft doesn't typically open source it's research though, so if I'm going to use this method in engine, I'll have to chase down the academic research papers they derived this from, and rebuild a similar implementation myself. Of course first I'll...
  10. Nate North

    Save Point 7.4 pipeline update

    Thanks! It gives me a stronger ability to direct viewer attention to where I want it onscreen, which is really important. In addition, the way this whole thing works, there was a strong tendency for character movements to cause ripple effects on the background drawing (you can see it in that...
  11. Nate North

    Save Point 7.4 pipeline update

    I meant to post this previous video earlier, in case anyone was interested. This video is from the 7.3 version, directly preceding the one at the top. This one shows a lot more 3d camera movement, and you can see between the two how the newer method produces a more consistent image. 7.3...
  12. Nate North

    Save Point 7.4 pipeline update

    Yeah, me too. Basically, until all stars align I can't do narrative fiction, which is of course the whole point, and the only thing of value. For a while I've had solid visuals of one type or another, but in motion the AI stuff was really rough, and it's taken forever to get things working at...
  13. Nate North

    Save Point 7.4 pipeline update

    Some glimpses at the 7,4 tech of the Save Point pipeline. As it gets more complex and heavy (computationally) updates have been slower. Main takeaways here are a more solid animation format with much less "crawling lines" motion. In this version, I'm starting to split the pipeline into...
  14. Nate North

    software Premiere Pro getting AI Editing

    Of course I have some comment or other about this implementation, which looks good and useful, but I'm going to save myself the effort here and just reply in a seperate post (when I get a chance) that kind of covers a larger point relevant to all this stuff. Basically, I don't feel as much need...
  15. Nate North

    website My Professional Website

    Taking another look at it today, I had a few other thoughts. This is just a sales thing, but I would suggest a more concrete value proposition, and a slightly more random price, ironically, for the purpose of making the price seem less random. I think many people might respond positively to...
  16. Nate North

    website My Professional Website

    I would add that experimentation, iteration, and A/B testing are an integral part of fine tuning your ad spend. In many cases it's possible to get 2 or 3x the results from the same spend, simply by triangulating in over time on the best search phrases, demographics, or ad presentation. If I'm...
  17. Nate North

    website My Professional Website

    The smart money is on google adwords and facebook ads. With ads it's all about bang for buck, and those 2 have historically provided the most audience for the least money per ad. It's been a minute, so I can't be certain of your ROI, but in the past I've used careful targeting and search...
  18. Nate North

    website My Professional Website

    Yeah, when I mentioned framing, I just meant literal frames, web style, not picture frames. It looks good though, and more importantly the images themselves look good. My advice on a next step would be to A. raise your prices to be more competitive, so if your competition is doing 600 a...
  19. Nate North

    website My Professional Website

    Clean, simple, good. I think it conveys the idea well, and is functional for it's purpose. I might add a bit of visual flair, just minor web stuff to make it slightly less minimalistic, but otherwise design is fine. As far as the headshots themselves, it's ok, but I might stagger the images...
  20. Nate North

    series What series are you watching?

    I would say that the original Fallout game was at the very core of my creative inspiration, that and Homeworld. Video games were kind of the opposite of Hollywood in terms of cliques. Hollywood gated out people who weren't good looking or wealthy for the most part, and the gaming industry, at...
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