sympte

i went with greg to the sympte or whatever its called convention which was pretty much a giant sales show room for cameras and film related editiing and compositing software. I was actually really impressed by the panasonic p2 camera which has two 8 gig cards that allow you to to plug and play into your pc and eliminate the entire capture process of your project, which is amazing for time saving. The other thing i was actually impressed with was the integration with final cut pro, motion and shake on mac. This package actually looks like theyre giving it a go and putting up some competition against the other majoring packages out there at the moment.

The other thing i did was after being inspired to get off my arse and to do some tests i actually did something. Firstly though since i dont have a camera i went looking for specific video that had a still shot with a starting or ending background plate and then any kind of movement across the screen. I first found a really bad shot from human traffic and did my first test but found it worked badly.

The next night i found a shot from witch hunter robin which is anime and was pretty much a few drops of blood falling on a church floor. I then created a bg plate from the first shot and used it as a difference key to isolate only the blood drops. This worked nicely and then i re-composited it onto of a revamped tat drawing i did. Made them 3d layers, added a camera, two lights and rendered it out. This looks great for a test but only goes for a few seconds. Now it has pushed me into actually getting around to making a entire web page for all my shit seeing as im finally getting into the full swing of the net thing instead of mild usage before. As soon as i get broadband i think ill be investing alot more time into it all.

and i still want that canon power shot pro 1 8 megapixel 7x zoom camera. please, its only a grand.
cheers
chesh