FFmpeg is another free option. I use it for all the vids on my site. It's fast, batchable, and puts out seemingly every format known to man. Here's the .BAT file I use, I just drag-n-drop my source AVI onto it. But if you want to convert a sequence then go here:…
I think it looks like you could get away with using alphamapped planes as the poles are very thin and therefore would not need a lot of depth. It will of course not look as good, but it's still a possibility. Also it might be questionable if you'd actually get any performance boosts with lots of triangles vs alphamapping,…
Windows Movie Maker is surprisingly good at compression, you can dial in the MB you want and it shows you what pixel res & framerate it will downsize to. Only caveat is it puts out WMV, some people don't like the format. You can get it to progressive-d/l though simply by making a quickie ASX file (meaning it will start…
Just a few additional thoughts: You don't need to be running at 30fps - this is waste. You can get by with smooth video at 24-25 fps. Additionally, I've had a lot of luck encoding w/ Quicktime using the H.264 codec using AAC for audio. This can be done w/ Quicktime Pro or software like Camtasia. With the settings below,…
PM whenever you need to and we can go over what we can do to make it look more along the lines of what these guys are talking about. They're right. I'm not saying the PCC/DRC instructors don't know what they are saying, but the CA degree is more geared towards movies than games. And the infamous 10 second Dead Space is to…
There isn't a reason for him to be low poly, bar it being easy to sculpt, with the intention of use, I will most definitely make a higher poly version. the mesh subdivides well so it wouldn't take much to get the mesh up to standard. Here is a screen of blender to give you a rough look at the topology, The Textures size is…
So ummm, I've been working on that short film thing, and, here's the result. http://www.artofscottjonsson.com/FoDlowres.mov (save target as. its not web friendly. Its H.264. 55 megs or somethin) Here are a couple screen caps to look at while it downloads. My thoughts on my film (me whining): I reallllly bit off more than I…
Scene Size: The file size would probably only be that large if everything still has it's modeling history intact. You'll want to select anything static and hit the Freeze button (lower right corner, under Edit). For anything that is weighted to a rig, you'll want to hit the FreezeM button in order to keep the envelope…
fixed it:--2009 renderhjs.net/*I wrote this script for my bachelor project in order to render very high resolotions(print stuff) on low memory systems. Feel free to improve or share this script :)Hendrik-Jan*/SplitRender;( function update_settings = ( local c = SplitRender.splitcount.state; SplitRender.width.value =…