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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Watching TV/TV Screening Test]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/233425/#p233425</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Yeah, you need to work on your prop building. For a TV, I would use some black bricks to make a screen, then put some bricks of another color (gray, maybe) all around it.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (minifig051)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 22:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Watching TV/TV Screening Test]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/233418/#p233418</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Eh, I don't know about using an iPod, whenever I take a picture of a computer/TV screen, (and I assume it would be the same for an iPod,) it always comes out looking weird.  But maybe that's just me.

Anyway, as for the actual test, it could use some improvement.  I think the color of the TV is excusable as long as you add some detail that distinguishes it as a TV.  For instance, you could add an antenna on top.  The image isn't aligned with the TV as well, so you might want to fix that.  Also, a lot of editing softwares have a film grain effect, which might help it look more realistic, as the TV image just looks like a video pasted onto some bricks.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (AbsurdAnimations)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Watching TV/TV Screening Test]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/233387/#p233387</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Then you could make a movie theater! :D]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Squid)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Watching TV/TV Screening Test]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/233378/#p233378</link>
			<description><![CDATA[[quote=LTWProductions]I agree with pacific. It was good. And I know your using the Logitech quick cam pro 900 (correct me if I'm wrong) and that has focus. If you can focus that close, just move the guy back.[/quote]

Actually, I'm using a Logitech C910 Webcam.
I'll try that.

[quote=AnnoyingNoisesProductions]Basically, film your TV scene.
Then put all of those pictures onto an iPod Nano.
Make a TV frame and animate the TV, cycling one frame through your animation in the iPod every frame of the new shot.
Then in post production, mask the end of the iPod sticking out.[/quote]

What if you have an iPad instead of a Nano (which I do) :/

-LASF]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[lasfbrickfilms@gmail.com (LASF)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 19:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Watching TV/TV Screening Test]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/233377/#p233377</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I didn't think it was that great.
It's just an image pasted on some bricks, and it's not straight, it looks fake and isn't convincing.
Sorry.

But! I have an excellent idea for a method of making a TV effect which would look amazingly realistic:

Basically, film your TV scene.
Then put all of those pictures onto an iPod Nano.
Make a TV frame and animate the TV, cycling one frame through your animation in the iPod every frame of the new shot.
Then in post production, mask the end of the iPod sticking out.

I've never tested this method, it would require a lot of work and an iPod, but I think it could be pretty awesome. :)
I'll probably make a test for it eventually.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Squid)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Watching TV/TV Screening Test]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/233374/#p233374</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I agree with pacific. It was good. And I know your using the Logitech quick cam pro 900 (correct me if I'm wrong) and that has focus. If you can focus that close, just move the guy back.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (LTWProductions)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Watching TV/TV Screening Test]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/233371/#p233371</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Come on now, Hazzat. Pretty much everyone can. What's the point of the WIP & Tests section if you tell people to decide for themselves if their [s]animation[/s] test video is good? 

As for the video - quite nice. Though Hazzat is right in that the colouring and design of the TV doesn't look realistic but you're probably aware of that anyway. And something else: the most unrealistic part is that the TV image is perfectly even but the tv is slightly distorted by the lens of your camera. What camera are you using?

Other than that, I noticed the guy watching is out of focus. 

Sound quality seemed to be good!

What you could experiment with is blurring the edge of your TV image a little so that it flows better with the rest of your TV. And you certainly need another colour for that thing if you don't want to make the audience wonder when exactly the tele tubbies are going to appear on screen.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[anynameproductions@hotmail.com (pacific)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Watching TV/TV Screening Test]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/233356/#p233356</link>
			<description><![CDATA[The picture was a bit wonky compared to the "TV" itself. It was a bit of a weird TV too, have you ever seen a perfectly rectangular yellow TV?

But do you really need anyone to critiquing this? I'm pretty sure you can work out whether its good or not by yourself without anyone telling you.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[harry@bossert.com (Hazzat)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 18:01:01 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Watching TV/TV Screening Test]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/233355/#p233355</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Links: [url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdwlxcfZQk0[/url], [url]http://www.vimeo.com/27170003[/url]

This test is mainly how well I made the TV look like a TV and how well the video was placed on the TV.
Criticism welcome! :)

-LASF]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[lasfbrickfilms@gmail.com (LASF)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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