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Post by 3dpdk // Feb 16, 2007, 6:29pm

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That cargo specialists should have read the manifest before he went combining those two gasses! This sequence will actually take place while orbiting a gass giant planet but this was the only space background I have for now.

Took a short break from building an airframe so I could blow one up! This is a first attempt and kind of a sketch, so be kind! Yea I know, there's no sound in space but it needed something.
4392 (http://www.youtube.com/v/b59GOLpA-W0)
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[EDIT] tried to imbed a video window within the image. It didn't imbed but it opens a separate YouTube video viewer (without taking you to YouTube) window so you don't have to download it, if you click the image. The text link is for this forum's download function.

Post by Jack Edwards // Feb 16, 2007, 6:43pm

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Hi 3dpdk,


The explosion looks good to me but I think the planet seems too static. Maybe pathing the camera or animating the clouds/slight rotation?


-Jack.

Post by 3dpdk // Feb 17, 2007, 3:48am

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Hay Jack, It is a bit static. That background is my desktop image. It's a still from one of the Darkened Moon title sequence attempts and will eventually be replaced with a wireframe gas giant planet.

... but that's something to consider. Not so much in reality, (look at the NOAA weather satellite "weather in motion" videos; those are usually about 5 frames taken over about a 6 hour period; "time lapse" if you will) but in most of today's movies the atmospheres of the planets are depicted as being very active. My tendency is to try to make things as real as possible but sometimes you have to give the viewers what they want.

Even if I don't show the gas giant's atmosphere in motion, I've already worked up several schemes to give it depth using several cloud layers with alpha transparency maps.

If they come up with 900 Ghz computers, I'll definitely animate it!
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