Skip to main content

And even MORE geek tech...

So since time is a factor I have to make two other purchases one to speed things up one too slow things down....

Ya know real live humans come fully modelled, boned^_^ , rigged and skinned 0_o so they are quick to animate...time savers... I will be utilizing live action where appropriate to save time animating... since the world will be 3d I will need to shoot them on a greeen screen and composite them... HSM will be rendered at the same res as WATS 1920x817 24p.... And to get clean keys from live action I need a video camera that can shoot 1080p uncompressed... WHOA WHOA thats gotta be HELLSA expensive right? Not if you know the little secret I was first informed about on Stu Mashwitz's Prolost blog... Canon's mini cams from its Vixia line shoot 1920x1080 and can output it uncompressed from the HDMI port.... So ya need the cam I dont have that yet... a drive capable of 150 megs/sec + I got that.... and a Mac or PC with a Blackmagic card with HDMI in dont have that YET...

So after looking at them all I'll be getting a Canon Hf100 for my live action cam it costs $650.00

AND since I love it in my FACE even though I'm just a hack... I'm going to do some stopmo in HSM as well... I still have my trusty 300d that I shot WATS... BUT since I'm like upgrading I'll be getting the new model...the 450d because it now has live video out... this means I can now use all the fancy stopmo previews programs to do onionskinning and other fancy stuff it costs $740.00 (without lens)

So after these last few geek tech posts you have a pretty good idea of the gear I'm using to make HSM... although I didn't talk much about software...hmmm....

Comments

  1. Thanks for the details, mdot. Looking forward to some feedback on that Canon HD camera.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

What format should I render out of Cinema 4d with?

UPDATED 2_27_13!  RENDER USING EXR Lossy Zip16! Since I'm working on a new feature film that will generate over 1500 shots made up of image sequences I need to make sure I choose the right file format to render to lest my hard drives explode. What I need from my format is  at least 16bit, an alpha included and preferably small size. I rendered out a frame from my film tallied up all the file sizes here- their all different types of codecs listed from smallest file size to largest. The render includes an RGBA pass, Depth pass, and Material Luminance pass because thats what I always render out. 1.00mb 8bit-Photo Jpeg %100 1.27mb 8bit-PNG 4.65mb 16bit- EXR lossy ZIP16 5.75mb 8bit-PSD 6.23mb 16bit-EXR lossy PLZ 6.44mb 16bit-PNG 7.94mb 8bit-TIFF 8.50mb 16bit-EXR Lossy 24 9.05mb 16bit-EXR Lossy Run Length 14.6mb 8bit-TARGA 22.4mb 32bit-EXR ZIP16 24.6mb 32bit-EXR Zip1 25.6mb 32bit-EXR PLZ 29.3mb 16bit-TIFF 29.3mb 16bit-PSD 40.0mb 32bit-EXR Run Length 58.7mb 16

Aggregated feedZ

So I totally aggregated all meh rss feedZ...So in this one handy like feed thing you can get... -Meh blog posts -Meh EXCITING Facebook status updates (ex. "I'm so FACE") -Meh youtube videos -Meh Vimeo videos -Meh Blogtalk radio episodes - and much more (actually just like some other xml code that i don't understand) Just subscribe via this link and you can get all that for a low low price of...oh wait it's totally FREE ^ ^

So a guy is trying to take credit for my film...

TLDR- Scroll down to THE THIEVERY My name is Mike- I make films under the name "M dot Strange" and I have done so for the past 10+ years- this is my story as a filmmaker culminating in a recent event wherein a "filmmaker" tried to take credit for my life's work Here's my imdb page with my film credits  My web site Here's a reel with stuff from my original films in which I wrote/created/designed/animated etc everything that you see- I can and have performed all aspects of animated film production on my films- thats sort of how I made a name for myself- by being a one man animated film studio Here's a presentation from 2014 with me discussing the production of my last film My first animated feature film "We Are The Strange" premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2007 Sundance archives link Article about the film Link to the film Film's site Because of the buzz that film generated I was given offers to sell the