Thanks to all
Quote from: WAS on April 15, 2020, 04:37:47 PMThey have to be under 20 mins now too? No wonder no one is making fan films anymore for Star Trek. Their crack down was ridiculous.
I am not 100% sure but I think it was 1-2 years ago, when Oshyan sent me a link or document with some of Paramounts "Fan Film Rules". Anyway I think my concept will meet the requirements of Paramount as well as all the others, I parody.
The concept of dividing my film project into parts of a series will give me some advantages, I need to finish it anyway:
To finalise all that as a full-length feature film I just don't have the necessary background. It's no riddle to me any more why movies are usually made by sometimes up to 10.000 of people or more which are mostly more talented than me
. Also I can hope for forgiveness for some gaps of logic or continuity in the story line if it's a series of episodes.
Quote from: sboerner on April 16, 2020, 11:03:42 AMHow many light sources? And are those mo-cap cameras I see surrounding the dance floor?
I used 77 light sources over all.
Some green ones only for a diffuse shining around the self illuminated green ceiling lights.
Some spots around the dance floor which are animated in strength, color and rotation synchronously to the rotations of the studio lamps.
I think 6 usual light sources in the large screen reflectors.
5 or 6 light sources without visible object with animated strength and Color for the overall/ambient colored flashing lights.
The five studio lamps at the wall are each equipped with a light source without a visible object as the real light source and one with low brightness for the visible lens flare effects.
The equipment around the dancefloor is from a set of photography studio objects by merrico on cgtrader. Not too expensive as I remember. some light screens, different tripods and the spotlights.
... and to do justice to my quirky humor, a couple of slot machines with Borg stuff on the ads. The green plasma balls are from an earlier clouds experiment by Kadri. Thanks Kadri
If I misunderstood your mo-cap question just as info: No motion capture. No automatics. All camera movements are hand made.
The animation of the two first "classic dance moves" are animated by hand and the rest is rigged and animated with MIXAMO. Both converted via blender into object sequences.
All object parts of the animated suits are 17730 objects in 120 folders with a total of 43.1 GB
...I should not tell... but the band will survive the spaceduckbubbles attack...