The Holoduel 2

MrVestek

Ok I haven't actually added this to my website yet (laziness) but it's on the server, would just like opinions etc of it. It's the sequal to The Holoduel (durh) which is on my site, www.stevetrek.com

Anyways check out the vid and tell me what you think.

Broadband Friendly Version:
http://www.stevetrek.com/movies/the_holoduel_2.wmv

56k Friendly:
http://www.stevetrek.com/movies/the_holoduel_2_56k.wmv

(And yes bubbles... before you say anything... the "acting" is terrible).

Lump

I wouldn't call the Broadband one "Friendly" at 27 megs. Or the 56 K one friendly at 8 megs.

John

MrVestek

Bitch bitch moan moan. Did you even look at the video?

miju

pretty much the same as the first one but watchable enough

one thing though you spelt classified as cassified at the end

Lump

Achilles wrote:

Bitch bitch moan moan. Did you even look at the video?

No, but I didn't comment about the content, I just informed you that it's a little off putting with the size.

John

MrVestek

_raptor_ wrote:

one thing though you spelt classified as cassified at the end

I never even noticed that. I was up till the wee hours of the night editing that the other night as I wanted to get it finished... I was bound to mess something up.

Cheers.

dlofnep

Good fun. I see your star trek fan skills are coming on..

The audio level is too low compared to the background music however.

MrVestek

Yeah I should have lowered down the background music more. Ahh I might re encode it before I put it on the site.

Cheers though.

sleepwalker

heh what program did you use for the special effects ? tis a cool little film you should send this into blizzard of odd.

FX Meister

why didnt you shoot the bollix in the head when you bumped into him on the stairs?

dlofnep

sleepwalker wrote:

heh what program did you use for the special effects ? tis a cool little film you should send this into blizzard of odd.

It's easily done in adobe premier. Basically you have two shots. One with the actor and one with the same background. You basically overlap the two shots and setup two keyframes.. One with full opacity on the background image (so all you can see is the image with the actor in it), the second keyframe should be no opacity) so it ends up fading from the actor to just the background.

For the star wars beam up effect, you can find them everywhere. Most with a specific background color so you can chroma key out the background color and have just the beam which you can overlap onto the actor. You may have to blend the beam or beam image into the actor fading which can be done in premier also.

Some other people really go mad into it and highlight the person fading out using a matte and use some sparkles and what not.. There are alot of tutorials of how to do it on the net.. Just google beam up tutorial.

MrVestek

There's a beam out tutorial on my website, www.stevetrek.com
And erh... 'star wars beam up effect?' What are you on about eh? But yeah you're right about everything else, and I did use a matte to fill the body up with sparkles. But the effects were generated by myself in a program called ParticleIllusion.

Don't worry tho for my tutorial i give you all the rendered files you need.

dlofnep

Beam up, beam out.. I'm not a trekkie so I honestly couldn't care less about the official name for it. Let us not criticise irrelevant stuff

MrVestek

Erh, no I was actually referring to the fact that you called it Star Wars

dlofnep

Yeah.. Star Wars.. Star Trek. A minor slip up. No biggie.

FX Meister

They both have stars in them and Aliens and they fly star ships so it's all the same.