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Links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdwlxcfZQk0, http://www.vimeo.com/27170003
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
Last edited by LASF (August 1, 2011 (03:02pm))
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.
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 animation 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.
Last edited by pacific (August 1, 2011 (11:45am))
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.
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.
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.
Actually, I'm using a Logitech C910 Webcam.
I'll try that.
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.
What if you have an iPad instead of a Nano (which I do) 
-LASF
Last edited by LASF (August 1, 2011 (12:05pm))
Then you could make a movie theater! 
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.
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.
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