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JaredTaylor

03-27-2009, 08:06 PM

Hi guys,

For my reel that will hopefully get me into the school I'm after, I'm making a short animation that has norma desmond in it, to imply that it's her, besides the haunted looking house, many photographs, I'd like to cut the part out of the actual film where she's watching herself when she was an a silent actress and put it in my short.... is there any way of doing this?

Cheers :D

Edit: anyone know how I can fake the camera bloating up? I imagine the lens would become distorted and everything would be horribly bloated/curved.

wwswimming

03-28-2009, 02:56 PM

if you're using Max, start out with an experiment -

set up an *.avi as an image in the diffuse map slot.

assign that material to a plane.

watch the movie.

might be a little hard on the graphics card, but it works.

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