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General Discussion => Art => Topic started by: aeTIos on February 16, 2011, 06:57:42 am

Title: Axe Parser animation
Post by: aeTIos on February 16, 2011, 06:57:42 am: Hi, I'm working on an Axe Parser animation in Blender (3D animation program)
Its progressing nice, and I'll post my progress as well as some screenshots here.
Please give your feedback!

EDIT:
Added some screenshots to show my progress
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: aeTIos on February 16, 2011, 10:41:47 am: Major Update #1: finished first part of the video.
You can download it here: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=4PUFQDAC

Please give feedback!
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: Darl181 on February 17, 2011, 03:11:27 am: I tried it and it didn't show anything... ???
It said playing but it was just plain black.
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: aeTIos on February 17, 2011, 03:13:18 am: Hm. maybe its because of that I uploaded it at school to mediafire.... I'll upload it to my website.
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on February 17, 2011, 03:19:35 am: It doesn't work for me either. It just freezes Windows Movie Maker :/. The screen captures look nice, though.
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: aeTIos on February 17, 2011, 03:33:44 am: All right... you can play it with Quicktime, Media Player Classic, but not with WMP
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on February 17, 2011, 03:36:57 am: Ok x.x. Well I uploaded a converted version but the size is 1280x720. I don't know if quality is lower. I used AVI format with MPEG-4 codec. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=ZTIVWTNC

I had to use Koyotesoft video converter to convert your file.

By the way I love this animation. It would be even cooler if it actually used the same fonts Quigibo used, but I don't know which one he used.
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: aeTIos on February 17, 2011, 03:39:07 am: Okay, I'll make this bigger (I mean longer vid) in future
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on February 17, 2011, 04:10:26 am: Cool, what do you plan to add?
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: aeTIos on February 17, 2011, 09:21:56 am: An axe that executes (compiles) a Basic program. The basic program dies, and arises as ASM
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: Munchor on February 17, 2011, 10:16:26 am: Quote from: aeTIos on February 17, 2011, 09:21:56 am
An axe that executes (compiles) a Basic program. The basic program dies, and arises as ASM

lol, that's funny. I haven't seen the video yet, but the screenshots are cool :)

EDIT: The video looks excellent!
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on February 18, 2011, 04:37:30 am: Quote from: aeTIos on February 17, 2011, 09:21:56 am
An axe that executes (compiles) a Basic program. The basic program dies, and arises as ASM
Seems cool :D

If I ever made another Axe Tribute video, I wonder if I could maybe use it? It would take a long while before I work on one, though, since I also have the Omnimaga 10th anniversary video to make.
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: aeTIos on February 18, 2011, 04:39:03 am: You can use them if you want. just add me to the credits. (Didnt you have a screen with "made by DJ Omnimaga" at th end? )
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on February 18, 2011, 04:46:29 am: I don't remember, but I do when I use other people work or a song in particular.
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: aeTIos on February 19, 2011, 09:48:49 am: I'm adding some GIF screenshots too, I found out that that's possible to do :D
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: Munchor on February 20, 2011, 02:23:48 am: Quote from: aeTIos on February 19, 2011, 09:48:49 am
I'm adding some GIF screenshots too, I found out that that's possible to do :D

AVI to GIF is possible indeed, it could be your new Avatar :P
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on February 23, 2011, 01:01:21 am: Yeah many video editors support them. Some screws with the speed, though. Also, for optimal quality you need to resize them in nearest possible mode instead of bi-linear or the like, else it might look blurry compared to the rest of the video. Example:

Most gifs resized from 96x64 or 192x128 to 640x480 using bilinear logic:

Most gifs resized from 96x64 or 192x128 to 720x480 and from 320x240 to 640x480 using nearest pixel logic:

It looks more pixelated but it looks closer to the original thing. However some editors like Windows Movie Maker won't support that. I generally use 720x480 resolution nowadays. 640x480 is a bit stretched vertically.
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: leafy on March 08, 2011, 11:34:26 pm: Learn to after effects. (http://videocopilot.net/)
Amazing software.
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 11:49:40 pm: Yeah but is it free? I personally use VirtualDub/WMM because they are and are also rather easy to use for the kind of video I make.
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: leafy on March 08, 2011, 11:51:38 pm: Free trial + free tutorials = profit.
I used to use Flash, but after seeing what After Effects could do i switched :)
Title: Re: Axe Parser animation
Post by: DJ Omnimaga on March 08, 2011, 11:55:57 pm: Ok, well after the trial runs out we do what? :P

Anyway I am fine with what I got. I think we should avoid turning this topic into a software war.