Re: Epic jointly-produced JMOV?

"Markus Gebhard" <ukg...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> wrote in message news:3CA...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de...
> Phydeaux wrote:
> >
> > Well, things look grim.  VK's Chat has been down for weeks, a.a-a has been nearly overrun with
> > trolls (spring break?), and there have been a grand total of five replys to the original posts,
> > most of which less than enthusiastic.
>
> You are right, for a.a-a it is now not the right time to start a project
> there. At least it seems
> things are beginning to get better now.

I did notice that... even Tran is back, which -I think- is a good thing!  In this case, anyway.

> And on a.a-a.animation there are not so many people. In fact I think 50%
> of all the people lurking on this newsgroup have replied to your post
> :-)
>
> As for me I can tell that I am already doing some work that will make it
> easier to create this animation project. I have made some enhancements
> to the JavE movie editor and everybody working on this project can get
> the current deveoper version of JavE from me. I have also plans to add
> algorithms for animated shifting of scenes: You just have to select the
> last frame from scene 1 and the first frame of scene 2 and enter the
> number of frames to be created in between using one of the animation
> effects. I have not implemented any such effects yet, but if you have an
> idea for an effect I will try to work it out.
Ooh, ooh:

fade out/in - I thought about this one a bit, and it might be a bit difficult.  As a start,
   I'd suggest the gradient characters to accomplish it.  You'd almost have to be able to
   designate some characters/areas as fadeable (for lack of better term), and some as not-
   fadeable, this would keep the pic visible and fade everything else.

count-down w/that spinning shutter thing - Just because it'd be cool :)

scrolling text - vertical (credits-like), horizontal (stock-quote style)
 -two speed types: lines/frame or lines/time period (in case the frames have
  different display lengths)

something that will tag the frame for sound? (I know that is still experimental...)

Speaking of tags, maybe somehow to tag a frame to attract attention. To flag
it somehow if it's only half finished.  Like a few frames that will be very
detailed or difficult (rotating objects or such) to draw that you want to
just flag and move on to get the layout of the scene right first.  Just a
thought.

> >  Looks like we're going to have to hold off on this for a
> > while.  In the meantime, I think I'll try to work out a couple 'demo' animations to get people's
> > attention a little better.  So, to the back burner it goes.
>
> I think demo animations and a web site with project details would be a
> great basis to find other artists to join us. Also it would be a good
> idea to set up a mailing list for all the people in the project. Artists
> could post their ideas, sketches, etc. there, and I would post updates
> to the animation tools (for I do not want to make those inofficial
> releases public).

I hadn't thought of setting up a new mailing list... I just figured we could post here.  I
suppose that could get a bit lengthy though, so the mailing list would probably be a good
idea.

> What do you think?

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-Phydeaux

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