Ok, just a short update to let you guys know I'm still working on this.
Just hit the 50% mark on the animation progess. So although it is slow, I will get there in the end.
Been working on some postproduction as well, drawing laser blasts into the footage using gimp. At one point there's a big battle scene where I drew 25 blasts over a period of 5 seconds footage... using Gimp. That took about 5 minutes per blast, so you guys do the math...
Another nice shot that I finished is a "bricksplosion": an "object" explodes into 4 big pieces. Those big pieces go flying through the air and all exploded outward of the impact point. How I did that was the following:
- first I shot footage of each opf the pieces flying through the air seperately. Had to remove the rigs for each of these shots of course.
- After that, I merged/masked/copy-pasted all of these shots together, to get a single explosion.
I hope you guys understand what I mean. Anyway, it took me 3 hours in total (for 3 seconds of film) but turned out pretty good.
On I side note: I might even switch to another camera for this, as I recently bought a DSLR with some manual lenses. Shooting with that is really fun! Now I just have to sell some other stuff inb order to finance my copy of Dragon. If your shooting with (a supported) DSLR, Dragon really is a must! It is great software, but at a price!
Well, that's it for now. Keep you guys posted in another month or so...
Boardron