tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post4639772486372741101..comments2023-10-21T05:56:16.979-07:00Comments on Mold Breaker: Working with video referenceMr Goodsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11990879366082004882noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-61602344284099346812013-07-03T06:48:45.193-07:002013-07-03T06:48:45.193-07:00Thanks, much, Tom, Ellis. I'll still post. Not...Thanks, much, Tom, Ellis. I'll still post. Not going anywhere.Surly Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03577852160598674926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-69985012161573697332013-07-03T06:21:10.312-07:002013-07-03T06:21:10.312-07:00Of course! Always want to know what you are up to ...Of course! Always want to know what you are up to Ronnie. Keep the reports coming. Your joyful enthusiasm for whatever you are working on is always uplifting.Tom Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11624247648988106639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-39613571061951779082013-07-03T06:05:00.624-07:002013-07-03T06:05:00.624-07:00I hope everyone jumps in supporting your posting w...I hope everyone jumps in supporting your posting whenever you feel like it Ronnie.MrGoodson2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02329640961760572269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-55368416879976132712013-07-02T21:20:01.435-07:002013-07-02T21:20:01.435-07:00Starting up a blog skewing to my particular techni...Starting up a blog skewing to my particular technical interests has been bouncing around in my brain for a while and this seemed like a good time to do it. <br><br>A lot of what I'm into is hard to condense into a small, group-friendly post -too much 'Inside Baseball,' maybe. I don't want to kill the awesome vibe that exists here.<br><br>Knowing that my posts also might cause loading problems (like what happened with Sketchfab and with all the YouTube embeds) is another reason to stick that stuff somewhere else. I had no idea it was killing people's computers and that's the last thing I want to do.<br><br>I'll still contribute here, but I'll save the long-winded stuff for my own blog and just post a link for posterity. :)Surly Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03577852160598674926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-59821086221746315532013-07-02T19:54:05.042-07:002013-07-02T19:54:05.042-07:00For the record, Marty's complaint was an old o...For the record, Marty's complaint was an old one. Dating back to some pop culture stuff that was being embedded that he was taking about 15 minutes to load on some mobile access he was using.<br>I hope you don't feel driven off. This is good stuff. I still have an itch to get into Blender based on the introduction you gave to us. (My introduction anyway)<br>But any time you do an extensive article, do crosspost.<br>MrGoodson2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02329640961760572269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-38429259748351889852013-07-02T17:15:26.076-07:002013-07-02T17:15:26.076-07:00Glad you made the changes (had no idea it was bogg...Glad you made the changes (had no idea it was bogging things down) and good to hear you are getting something out of my random ramblings. I tend to get kinda OCD about these things and I'm never sure how much of a bloghog I become when I post this kind of stuff.Surly Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03577852160598674926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-51845408523410308572013-07-02T17:06:24.943-07:002013-07-02T17:06:24.943-07:00Blogspot just isn't good at it. Tumblr does th...Blogspot just isn't good at it. Tumblr does the better job.MrGoodson2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02329640961760572269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-57424085691735598012013-07-02T17:05:31.482-07:002013-07-02T17:05:31.482-07:00No, share all this tech adventure. I dig it. You m...No, share all this tech adventure. I dig it. You might copy my style for future posts. I should do this exact same thing for my storyboard blogspot page.MrGoodson2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02329640961760572269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-62237270692033476402013-07-02T16:51:30.195-07:002013-07-02T16:51:30.195-07:00Thanks, Ellis. Sorry for dragging things down with...Thanks, Ellis. Sorry for dragging things down with my silly vids.Surly Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03577852160598674926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-17522404641848655912013-07-02T16:49:06.589-07:002013-07-02T16:49:06.589-07:00I just checked my work. They all go to the right s...I just checked my work. They all go to the right spot.MrGoodson2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02329640961760572269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-25403240693340762222013-07-02T16:47:01.330-07:002013-07-02T16:47:01.330-07:00For my sake on the old mac mini and Marty also com...For my sake on the old mac mini and Marty also complained about it, I got rid of the embeds.<br>Fairly slow loading page when you have that many on blogspot.<br>I made them into jpg captures with the word link underneath them . Just right click and open New Tab. Open all Four at once for that matter.MrGoodson2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02329640961760572269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-4829787024434231752013-07-01T09:33:01.414-07:002013-07-01T09:33:01.414-07:00It's been probably 30 years since I watched Th...It's been probably 30 years since I watched The African Queen. I mainly remember my father loved it and there's a scene with Bogey and leeches that my mother hated because it was kind of disgusting. :)<br><br>I'm going to follow this post with another re-timed video using this technique using a scene from the Avengers. I use a whole slew of timing and blocking techniques along with compression and decompression. It's pretty much case-closed for me as the best way to study movement, acting and animation, in general. Makes everything so much clearer.Surly Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03577852160598674926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-9933834817082345752013-07-01T08:45:28.371-07:002013-07-01T08:45:28.371-07:00Greatest love story of all time. The African Queen...Greatest love story of all time. The African Queen.MrGoodson2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02329640961760572269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-37304086767541802232013-06-30T22:24:46.659-07:002013-06-30T22:24:46.659-07:00Very interesting.Clean way to go straight into to ...Very interesting.<br>Clean way to go straight into to a rotoscopable source, not copy it exactly, but leave behind the actual time the action took as your timeline.<br>Almost eveything exports frame sequences. I could do it with 3 programs I have. I'd probably just use quicktime pro to give me frames vs this technique.MrGoodson2https://www.blogger.com/profile/02329640961760572269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-13024590091692003812013-06-30T21:39:58.371-07:002013-06-30T21:39:58.371-07:00Right, Tom. That's the main idea. Extract and ...Right, Tom. That's the main idea. Extract and manipulate to get what you want from the reference. Use it as a framework - to give your animation strength and solidity. You go on top of that with your own thing to give it flexibility and to add your own touch.<br><br>It took watching Fielding's talk a few times to really get what he was doing. He took video reference, ripped it into individual frames and then had those sequential frames play back on a plane in Maya. Instead of using the default timeline settings, he used an expression or something (not really sure how he did it) to force Maya to playback the frames based on the keys he created in the graph editor. Maya still played at 24 FPS, but would hold on stepped keys, slope or cushion in or out, etc. <br><br>The benefit was that he needed a relatively small set of keys to control the motion and those keys could be edited easily.<br><br>The Hulk example I posted is 208 frames long. I was able to easily extract 19 poses in a couple of minutes. I could probably pare that down even more. Or added more 'poses' if something isn't clear.<br><br>While I'm using existing films and random clips, I will probably video myself and use my own performance as a basis, at some point. <br><br>Thought I'd share this working method because I think it's pretty amazing.Surly Birdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03577852160598674926noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18751429.post-88699917035202722122013-06-30T21:23:45.331-07:002013-06-30T21:23:45.331-07:00I'm not a Maya animator so I'm afraid a lo...I'm not a Maya animator so I'm afraid a lot of that went over my head about "breaking the timeline in Maya" and "hooking it to an animatable function curve", but it looks like you've got some kind of method for extracting key poses from video?Tom Moonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11624247648988106639noreply@blogger.com