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I wish I'd had students like you when I was teaching at the U of A AGRO.
OK so you nailed it but two points to make it look mind blowing awesome.
1. Render the metal state in a much more convincing material like Bryce's mirror or metal textures. Something killer looking.
2. Make the wave morph more irregular AND make it affectthe torus in a figure eight pattern for mind blowing realism as opposed to a simple sweep. DOn't forget AGRO, if you;re doing htis in flash you can use a simple mask to simplify things. Create a mask of your strip by exporting it as flat cartoon rendered, then take that mask into flash. Now you can freely paint in your motion mask on the layer beneath it and when you lock the top one in as a mask it'll only show through in the area of the strip .This way you can get a raelistic figure eight action to the morph. That will be truly awesome because you'll have portions with metal briefly overlapping portions with mesh. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
And if you really want to take people's breath away add a lens flare stage to the animation by doing this:
1. Once you have your finished video put it in Premiere or simlar app.
2. Set the last frame (just the full finished metal texture) to frame hold for a few seconds.
3. Add a realistic lens flare to it, Premiere has this built in. You're just going for a quick glint here to emphasize the metallic natue of the thing.
You could also use a light sweeping across it in your 3d app instead of a post production lens flare... Your choice.
Either way AGRO you have earned my respect for being a doer and not a talker.
Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software
I wish I'd had students like you when I was teaching at the U of A AGRO.
OK so you nailed it but two points to make it look mind blowing awesome.
1. Render the metal state in a much more convincing material like Bryce's mirror or metal textures. Something killer looking.
2. Make the wave morph more irregular AND make it affectthe torus in a figure eight pattern for mind blowing realism as opposed to a simple sweep. DOn't forget AGRO, if you;re doing htis in flash you can use a simple mask to simplify things. Create a mask of your strip by exporting it as flat cartoon rendered, then take that mask into flash. Now you can freely paint in your motion mask on the layer beneath it and when you lock the top one in as a mask it'll only show through in the area of the strip .This way you can get a raelistic figure eight action to the morph. That will be truly awesome because you'll have portions with metal briefly overlapping portions with mesh. [img]/ubbthreads/images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
And if you really want to take people's breath away add a lens flare stage to the animation by doing this:
1. Once you have your finished video put it in Premiere or simlar app.
2. Set the last frame (just the full finished metal texture) to frame hold for a few seconds.
3. Add a realistic lens flare to it, Premiere has this built in. You're just going for a quick glint here to emphasize the metallic natue of the thing.
You could also use a light sweeping across it in your 3d app instead of a post production lens flare... Your choice.
Either way AGRO you have earned my respect for being a doer and not a talker.
Corey Milner
Creative Director, Indigo Rose Software
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