Posted on January 6, 2012 |
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My buddy Oasim just posted a turn around of a really nice car he modeled a while back. It is a very nice tribute to Cars2 and I think it should be included in any Cars sequel!
If you are interested, he also posted a behind the scene and full tutorial for Maya and Vray.
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/34627201[/vimeo]
Posted on January 5, 2012 |
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Look at what we got today! Elliot Maren just sent me a link to that great short film he made with four others ESMA students. Electroshock is a very good looking 8 minutes shortfilm done at French animation school ESMA and YES! it is not a FREAKING CHASE!!!! It is good to see that students still care about storytelling and acting.
The shortfilm is probably inspired by “Cloudy with a chance of meatballs” and it really matches the visual quality of Sony’s movie. I especially love the colours they put in the shadows and how they handled the SSS.
I have featured several short films from that school already and it is good to see that Gobelins and Supinfocom have a really strong competition.
The pool of talents in France is increasing dramatically, I just hope that one day the demand could match the offer. Investors, are you hearing me??? 😉
Great job guys!
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/29193046[/vimeo]
There is no making of or blog but hopefully they will put more infos on the Facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/Electroshockmovie
[update] We don’t have a website/blog or Making of but see what I just found!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EJxMWxxo0gk[/youtube]
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Posted on January 3, 2012 |
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[update] the problem is fixed! It is due to the misleading Adobe’s Microsoft AVI format which overrides anything you do and makes your video blurry.
When creating your project, use “I-frame only MPEG” for example, instead of that weired Adobe Microsoft AVI format.

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I have been using Adobe Premiere since version 4.2 and as I bought a new fancy 64 bits laptop, I decided to upgrade from Premiere CS2 to CS 5.5 but it is driving me crazy.
As you can see above (click on the picture to see it full screen), Premiere 5.5 doesn’t seem to be willing to export a video to an .avi file with no compression to it. I have tried every possible option, did a fair amount of research on Google and Youtube but I can’t find any help on why Premiere is making my footage blurry when I am asking for a straight uncompressed video file as seen on the timeline.
Has anyone gone through the same thing? If I have to spend one more day on this I will have to revert to Premiere Pro CS2. Ah and the Uncompressed AVI option they have now is just a disaster waiting to happen, what were they thinking? How many people got fooled into thinking it was actually an …. uncompressed AVI option! 😉 I wonder if software makers ever have users test their softwares nowadays or is it the result of the current recession?