nikopol_gfx
10-05-2005, 04:05 PM
I want to do this in Lightwave.
It's pretty hard to explain what is this effect, it's best if I recall some known examples:
- many feature film opening titles (Matrix II, Buletproof monk butterfly)
- MiB ending, with zoom-out from a little planet to galaxy
- many impressive commercials, like the last one for Lexus, that I've seen on Discovery- (hyper-incredible stuff, it's done so good!)
- the opening/ending for "A bug's life"
- the dynamic satellite view, with fast zoom on a city or a single object
- many, many other examples
I'm sure that this zoom-in <-> zoom out effect puts a lot of problems. My questions would be:
1. does the whole effect have to be built as a single, giant scene, or could be separate in multiple composited zoom-outs? For the first option, how do I manage the camera in Lightwave, when I'm focusing on very little objects, in front of extremely big objects? For the second options, how do I blend the shots?
2. Do I have to build little objects with very little measure units, like milimeters, and bigger objects in kilometers or something? I'm sure there will be a lot of annoying OpenGL artifacts of clipping problems. how do I solve this?
3. Will be possible to use depth-of-field and motion blur, without a HUGE rendering hit?
4. What should I animate to obtain the right effect, the camera position, field-of-view of the camera, the zoom or all of this?
Thank you very much, guys! You're the best!
(and sorry for my english...)
It's pretty hard to explain what is this effect, it's best if I recall some known examples:
- many feature film opening titles (Matrix II, Buletproof monk butterfly)
- MiB ending, with zoom-out from a little planet to galaxy
- many impressive commercials, like the last one for Lexus, that I've seen on Discovery- (hyper-incredible stuff, it's done so good!)
- the opening/ending for "A bug's life"
- the dynamic satellite view, with fast zoom on a city or a single object
- many, many other examples
I'm sure that this zoom-in <-> zoom out effect puts a lot of problems. My questions would be:
1. does the whole effect have to be built as a single, giant scene, or could be separate in multiple composited zoom-outs? For the first option, how do I manage the camera in Lightwave, when I'm focusing on very little objects, in front of extremely big objects? For the second options, how do I blend the shots?
2. Do I have to build little objects with very little measure units, like milimeters, and bigger objects in kilometers or something? I'm sure there will be a lot of annoying OpenGL artifacts of clipping problems. how do I solve this?
3. Will be possible to use depth-of-field and motion blur, without a HUGE rendering hit?
4. What should I animate to obtain the right effect, the camera position, field-of-view of the camera, the zoom or all of this?
Thank you very much, guys! You're the best!
(and sorry for my english...)