Friday, February 24, 2006

Homeward boundless


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This person is a homeless person. Sleeps across the street from my home. Right in front of a closed office. Though down in luck, the person keeps praying to Allah. I've seen it several times. The loyalty to religion is commendable, though I doubt it will do any good. What do you think? Actually, I just shot this to test an old film effect filter. And since it's a long distance shot hendheld, it needs stabilization. How good does it work? Well, I think it's comprimised by the old film look.

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Matte Test


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this is a half-assed matte test, used only as a practice to put a rendered thing behind part of a live action footage (in this case, the boy riding the skateboard)

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EVA-01

This is a head of EVA-01 rendered. This is a WIP based on WETA's EVA-01. The white render is untextured. The Colored render is textured. Though both are still WIP (Work In Progress). There's no guarantee this is how it'll look generally when I'm done with it, I hope that I can achieve the look and quality that I aim for.

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Friday, February 17, 2006

Live Testfile


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This is a Maya Live test. I need to know how good the tracking capability of softwares. Compared with MatchMover's automatic SMART technology, Maya Live is far more accurate once you get the hang of it. MM's learning curve is quite simple, while Maya's need quite a getting used to. But once you got it, it's good enough for most of your tracking needs. And again, much more accurate than MM's. If you want to manually track with MM, I'm sure it coud give you good results, but you still need to get used to it's UI, while for maya users, Live is quite intuitive.

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