http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:14:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It has been quite a few years since I have done any enveloping, and even then not in XSI - so I'm pleased with the results so far here :) http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/?p=180 I can't be posting the ol' previs, don't want to spoil that of course, but here are some stills. The timecodes are added in the editor, and the shot numbers are added in XSI with a wee script I wrote which gets the name of the Sequence/Shot etc. from a ... http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/?p=174 Just to remind anyone, RSS is a smashing thing, and you can subscribe with the link here for updates, and all this stuff is at the bottom of the sidebar -----> If you don't do RSS! There is a subscribe by email button. I've started using Feedburner, so if anything is ... http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/?p=156 Food from Simon Reeves on Vimeo.Heres a shot with a focus pull showing some food in the restaurant scene. For the focus pull, I wanted to test scaling on the defocus (as it looks cool) http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/?p=151 After a fair few months break, though for us it has been longer than that - Short & Sweet is back on in Cafe 1001 in Shoreditch. We originally found out about it a couple of years ago when Diversion was shown - and we went again last night and will ... http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/?p=143 Here is an update on the restaurant scene, added some more pieces and have been adding textures, which seem to be mostly out of focus :) I have a list of some more bits that need to be done, most noticeably, food. I'm going to leave the table cloths near ... http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/?p=138 Here is another shot of the same restaurant environement, as I say, its EXACTLY the same just a different angle - one of the cameras from the pre-vis in fact. Also whilst I was there I did a quick camera move through the scene: [QUICKTIME http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/RestaurantComp_v010.mov http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/wp-content/uploads/ClickToPlay.mov 720 415] Download the video here http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/?p=132 I have been getting back into it recently, mostly doing pre-vis but as this particular environment is fully pre-vis(ed), I know the cameras etc. I know what is needed to be made and will be in shot, so I fancied making a start on it. So as well as modelling, ... http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/?p=125 Hello there, Thought I would make a post! It has been a while since the last one, but I have been working on the film recently, getting back into the swing of it mainly on unseen stuff though - so nothing exciting to show unfortunately, though I might just post some ... http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/?p=82 For the junction environment I'm just going to share a bit the lighting set up, the passes I've used and the way they composite together. If you want some more information about the passes I use, why and how they are composited togther, check out my compositing guides on my site ... http://www.bankaffairsfilm.com/?p=75