Here's a sample of DV-recorded-then-compressed video. Works otay. http://www.whatif-productions.com/video.htm (not the Gobbler one tho, that's pre-rendered) One of the Discreet demo guys told me how they compress their 3ds Max vids, which look pretty good. Might be worth a re-examination of the TechSmith route, at least…
hello kelly! welcome to polycount. i viewed your reel in the flash format and received it well. your work looks great. i felt the interior work was done very well. good work and assuming you had recently gotten your diploma, congratulations on graduating. some crit on your site: - the "large" link at the top links to a…
Visual Effects Editor Role & Responsibilities of the VFX Editor: Reporting to the Head of Digital Studio and working closely with the Visual Effects Supervisor, the primary role of the VFX Editor is to incorporate all required versions (from animatics through to final composites) of visual effects shots into the current…
for anyone who's interested, heres the keynote speech: http://www.apple.com/quicktime/qtv/wwdc05/ (without that annoying PC vs MAC bullshit advertising) one thing I just wanted to highlight though was a price comparison, check out the base specs (its a customizable machine so you can lump other stuff in there just like the…
Do me a favour. Use the 64bit Kubuntu, and try to get it to work within an hour. I hope they fixed it for this version, but ALL dependencies were broken, and it needed A LOT OF TWEAKING to fix. Say what you will, but Linux is not as easy to use as windows (yet). Add to that the douchebag attitude of a great deal of it's…
***Falls not so much for me, but enemy damage for sure. Random enemies will sometimes be extremely tough for no apparent reason, or have super strong attacks. There's something wrong with the level scaling because it just seems to keep fluctuating. When I was lvl 15-20 I was reaping my way across the countryside smacking…
The THIRD FLOOR, Inc. is looking for a Previs Editor for the Los Angeles office. THE THIRD FLOOR, Inc. is the world's pre-eminent, Emmy Award visualization company with offices in Los Angeles and London as well as on location with productions around the world. For the past 12 years, the studio has helped clients visualize…
It's not that Maya does it perfectly, its just that there are a lot of little things in max that add up to more friction for the whole process. 1) The curve editor drastically affects viewport playback speed. You have to either close it, or deselect everything which you are constantly having to do each time you play your…
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…
I'm sad to say I wasn't that impressed with the campaign. While I was super happy to get back into Chief's helmet, I felt like it was tainted by current trends in single player games. Every mission was painfully linear. I sensed early on that 343 was trying to capture what made Halo CE so great. I was hoping for large,…