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I was joking before about the lens flares... but I actually think its your best bet now that I think about it. Use a solar lens flare or something from over the actors shoulder, wash out the scene with some light flare action and then you also get a dramatic look.

I would make a transparent png file of the spraypaint that will be on the car. then motion track it to the footage of the car (if its a moving camera) and correct accordingly.

I think the most obvious advantage is that you can use multiple dv's to get footage on a bunch of inexpensive discs. And the data transfer to the Disc is probably fast, where as if you use a cheap sd card a slow transfer rate can kill your frames per second. Fast transfer to your computer and...

yeah, I'm thinking take a pic of the gun at the same angle and motion track it. But I dont even know if it would look good or if it would even be worth the effort. or pull a JJ Abrams LENS FLARES!!!!!!!!! lens flares fix everything. In fact you dont even need actors or scenes as long as...

Does anyone know how well the red stacks up to other pro level cameras that its competing with? Is it the bang for the buck camera or does it tear up the competition?

yeah, I have vray 1.5 sp5 now, but this was done before I had vray using mental ray. using a downloaded material doesn't fix the problem, its more like a bandaid. Instead I learn from the mistake and learn how to fix it myself. Thats how I roll.

its actually bright red, but its reflecting a lot of the ground color, and the sky color. If I had known more at the time I would have played with the specularity to avoid this. It took me a long time to be able to make something glossy that doesn't just reflect the color of everything around...

yeah, his gun knowledge is pretty extensive, especially considering how young he is. but to make your own props, you'll need to know a little about guns. The basics. Luckily though, there is the internet and you can learn anything you want with it. I think you could make some pretty...

yeah, I was a noob so I didn't know much about textures yet and how the light reacts with stuff. I started from a few angles that seemed ok, but then like... 80 hours in I was like "ah, the sand looks like crap". I was more concerned with making the movement look realistic though, and the...

yeah, I was just looking it up. It was this one http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112288/. I remember the description promising blood and gore, but what I got was a mopy depressed and socially akward college student who became a "vampire". They could survive in daylight, it was just really bright...

Oh, I have no idea. Its one of those movies that for some reason had rave reviews, but no one really knew why. Wonder how that happened *$$$*. I think they threw a lot of money at one big name actor, and paid the right people to say good things about it instead of spending that same money on...

So this is the first animation I ever made. Finished it a few months back. Hope you like it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvQs-iaFGjQ

actually I had no idea he was in it till he came into scene. I was a kid when I saw it, my dad and I went to the video rental place and got movies every weekend (remember when people did that? lol) so we saw just about everything they had. We saw that movie and it seemed promising on the...

I agree. I saw a movie once that budgeted in Christopher Walken for all of 5 minutes. Movie was still terrible. That 5 minutes of Walken was only marginally better.

it depends on how your audience will be viewing your movie. If its going to be on blue ray, the $55,000 camera is going to trump the DSLR by a long shot, of course. But I've found that on sites like youtube, the compression takes so much out of the video that you can barely tell the difference...

I have to agree, color grading is a part of editing. I think sound design is also a part of editing also, but it is kind of its own thing that you do apart from the video editing. but there is a point where the two come together and one or the other is influenced or changed based on the...

yeah, I rant. I dont even remember what this thread is about anymore. lol

you guys dont have airsoft guns in austrailia, do you? because thats usually they easiest route. Theres a kid on youtube I was watching that makes functioning replica guns from paper, its pretty amazing. Not that the time spent is a viable option, but it proves that you can really use just...

I started animation about 6 months ago, and now I cant stop. I've always been a storyteller but I could never find the right medium until I started playing around with 3ds Max. I also started making some VFX elements for some friends of mine. If you want to see some of my stuff, check out my...

Way I see it, do what you can with what you got. A lot of people will tell you all kinds of things, but if you wait till you have the best equipment, nothing will ever get done. I started making 3d animations on a $300 laptop with 2 gigs of ram and an intel 4500 video card.... actually still...