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Compositing in AS

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:41 pm
by slowtiger
I'm doing a music video right now, hand-drawn animation in TVPaint, in HD (1280 x 720). Some scenes are just pans or multiplane work, but these lead to big files in TVP because there you store each layer in frame at full bitmap resolution - 10 sec easily cost me 500 MB. So I rendered some layers as PNGs, made the rain a QT loop, and imported everything in AS. Not only that setting up a multiplane pan is much faster here, the file is also a mere 12 k because it only contains references to the image files.

http://slowtiger.de/examples/dr2.html (0,6 MB)

I will continue with this combination of software since I like that crayon look (which is done completely digitally ...) The video is expected to be finished in January.

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 10:54 pm
by sinclair
Looks good, my only critique is the light from the lamp, it stands out as an object rather than an element.

Everything else looks spot on-

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:11 pm
by jahnocli
Yes, the lamplight could be toned down a little...but very nice work.

Posted: Wed Dec 03, 2008 11:46 pm
by slowtiger
Thx for the comments. I also should add some shadows, but leave that until I have the characters placed in that scene. Overall it's a bit too detailed for TV, but I hope to be able to show it in HD at festivals.

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 3:19 am
by DK
Looks great Slow!!!!....Love the foreground blur on the chandelier.

Cheers
D.K

Posted: Thu Dec 04, 2008 7:12 pm
by moorsel
I like this style!