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Another Contest...From Film?
Another Contest...From Film?
Started by rcallicotte, November 24, 2008, 08:00:03 AM
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cyphyr
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 27, 2008, 11:18:44 AM
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: November 27, 2008, 11:25:37 AM by cyphyr
Actually some of the locations from LOTR would be great, especially as we have the great BigBen and his ever evolving DEM work to fall back on
Many of the locations in LOTR are real places in NZ for which we have or can get Digital Elevation Maps (DEM's).
Just found this
map
I havn't worked with DEM's at all so it would be a good learning curve.
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
#31
November 27, 2008, 11:23:59 AM
Everyone mentions locations with battle scenes.
How about the Shire?
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 27, 2008, 12:04:08 PM
This sounds like a very interesting project. Using real world dem data to mimic LOTR scenes sounds very neat. I might even take part in this if I have the time
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 27, 2008, 05:20:00 PM
@freelancah - I'm not sure about DEMs, but enjoy your creativity in any way you can. What I might do is put up a poll with various film locations mentioned in this thread and otherwise to find out which location the majority will want to fit as a general location for our contest.
Does the end of January sound like enough time...or is that too much time? Mid-January...?
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 27, 2008, 05:22:56 PM
mid january sounds like enough time. Should we have a vote on the methods that are allowed too?
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 27, 2008, 09:42:50 PM
It shouldn't matter how a person gets to the final as long as the final (basic) render is accomplished within TG2. Postwork is allowed and I think it should be unmonitored postwork. If something about this idea doesn't make sense, let's talk about it.
So this is Disney World. Can we live here?
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 28, 2008, 01:04:27 PM
I might be out of this one, my psu died so I'm offline till x-mas at least.
The world is round... so you have to use spherical projection.
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 28, 2008, 08:17:54 PM
Sorry to hear that happened, Will. But, the deadline will by January 15th or, depending on how many mention an interest in extending this date, we could go even to January 30th. That would be plenty of time, wouldn't it? Time to plan, etc...
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 28, 2008, 09:47:07 PM
Here are some links to LOTR based scenic images.
Edoras:
http://www.angelfire.com/film/rings/images/edoras.JPG
(not very large image
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from
http://groups.msn.com/dvcg2o69vq0acjeeru47naico5/funfacts.msnw
The following from here:
http://antipodalgeca.blogspot.com/
South Mavora Lake:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_fHgNxR1TpGI/SRi0-Hnld8I/AAAAAAAAAzs/hQnCXg7KyAo/s1600-h/DSC04416.JPG
Site of greenDragonTavern near Hobbiton:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_fHgNxR1TpGI/SRinLRq9QAI/AAAAAAAAAxk/MNZcRrAZpzM/s1600-h/DSC02332.JPG
And here are some of the LOTR matte paintings. While they do not represent real locations they are possibly good candidates for the intention of the competition.
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/897/range/1?q=&tn=12&ts=0
2 pages
these look like the best choices to me:
Emyn Muir 1:
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/897/view/7562?q=&tn=12&ts=0
Emyn Muir 2:
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/897/view/7566?q=&tn=12&ts=0
wherever 1:
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/897/view/7564?q=&tn=12&ts=0
wherever 2:
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/897/view/7574?q=&tn=12&ts=0
Black Gates:
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/897/view/7571?q=&tn=12&ts=0
Forbidden Pool:
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/897/view/7573?q=&tn=12&ts=0
Mordor:
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/897/view/7577?q=&tn=12&ts=0
minus clouds
Concept:
http://www.theonering.net/scrapbook/group/897/view/7576?q=&tn=12&ts=0
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
#39
November 29, 2008, 07:46:00 AM
Thanks neon22. I'll try to include the base locations from what I can gather from these, when I setup the poll.
I plan to include the rules of the contest with the poll, which will go for about seven days.
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 29, 2008, 07:43:49 PM
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Inspired by LOTR sounds good. General location or choices of locations needed. I'm in if I can find the time.
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 29, 2008, 11:11:45 PM
The more competitions the better, Lord of the Rings themed will be awesome. Btw, does anyone have any high resolution DEM's of New Zealand? I"m interested in doing some scened from where i live but all the free data i can find is like 100m resolution which is pretty crappy unless you wanna do a scene from space
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 30, 2008, 04:25:46 PM
Here are some possibles:
Probably too low for you ?
- has data and instructions on how to use/read/view it from this page:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/topo/report/
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This is at 100m
http://www.geographx.co.nz/downloads.html
You can buy
specific 90m data here for $9 a map:
http://www.cartographic.com/xq/asp/new/zealand/digital/elevation/models/90m/dem:/srtm3/(version2)/rid.192/tid.7/sid.706/cid.7000026/vid.0/oid.0/mode.a/navmode.r//qx/hub/index.asp
and here: under Others
http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/dem3.html#nz
100m with filled voids. similar to geographix above
But I am sure there is more hiding out there
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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November 30, 2008, 11:09:32 PM
To be honest i had hoped of finding 10m resolution DEMs
But most probably not much chance of that
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Re: Another Contest...From Film?
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December 02, 2008, 04:22:47 AM
You can get SRTM3 for free, not sure why anyone would want to buy it as it isn't that much of a pain to download. I use the index available for Google Earth as it's easier to pick out individual data files.
http://www.ambiotek.com/srtm
I can produce a tiled TER set of NZ at 90m with bathymetry if you want. It does require some artistic addition of additional displacements to make the moutains look really rugged but it's a start. I'll check my existing set and see if I produced one with square terrains. I found fewer problems with standard sized TERs, although this may be irrelevant now.
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