Keyframes Tutorial

By Maniac~VVV~

I say almost, because even though Directx 10 and Vista are alrady available, it will take a few more months for games to be released that are able to exploit the DX10 capabilities.

Example DX9/DX10 comparison
http://us.download.nvidia.com/downloads/nZone/videos/nzm_PT_Boats_dx9_vs_dx10.wmv

For machinima producers, DX10 is a godsend, because with it (and a capable cpu/gpu combo) you can not only produce broadcast-quality productions, but theatre-motion picture quality productions (at least from a graphical standpoint).

This is all fine and dandy...HOWEVER...and I amphasize "however". The only problem will be the character/actor models. I hope that machinima production tool developers such as MovieStorm and others will quickly take note of this new capability and up the ante on their graphics engines to match the quality of real time game rendering.

There would be nothing worse than having dazzling DX10 composited backdrops with pasty, low-level character models, or worse, low level sets AND character models for productions done entirely using a machinima dev tool, in an age of DX10 quality games.

Sure Poser can do it, but if you're going to use Poser you might as well get ready for some Pixar-overnight-rendering-times for a 5 minute scene. iClone and MovieStorm, the realtime machinima devtools have the ball.

Sony Vegas Tutorial Four at GamerzTheatre
In tonights lesson MANIAC~VVV~ covers Velocity, Media Generators and Text Effects... cool tools for Machinima makers.

Here's another update. This month has quickly gone by and much work has been done. Two weeks ago I finished my work on the soundtrack, although I'm still hoping for someone to compose an original score. I'm pleased with this progression and I've finally started to work on the final cut. I'm tweaking, fixing and altering alot of shots, just to get it right. No additional compositing is needed for this process so it advances rapidly. I'm almost done for the first two parts and I'm about to begin on part3. Once all parts are cut together I'll make final adjustments, this is just a matter of weeks.

Meanwhile, Donkey has been very busy with the compositing. He's done an amazing job so far and what he has done the last few weeks just blows my mind. He has composited very complex shots with many different layers in a very short time. I think he's finally getting to a point where he is able to produce high quality images within a limited time frame. By working on this project he has gained alot of experience and the last couple of years finally pay off. Each day I'm very excited to see what he has done next. There's always something that amazes me. The images are so full of details, it's hard to see it all.

In celebration of the Blizzard Xfire WoW Summer Movie Contest, Xfire and Stanford University would like to invite you to an event dedicated to Machinima movies.

The Stanford Xfire Machinima Event will feature a special screening where contest winners of the "Blizzard Xfire World of Warcraft Summer Movie Contest" will be announced and showcased!

Xfire has assembled an esteemed panel of scholars, Machinima creators and video game industry experts to discuss the trends surrounding this exciting new movie making art form. The topic of the panel, which with commence following the screening will be "Machinima: A New Future for Cinema?"

More details here .. http://www.xfire.com/cms/stanford/

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