Animation: Card Levitation

[FallenSwordsman]

Fun videos but which bit of it is to do with CG?

[Volcandro]

All the videos are CG. I'll use 3d max for creating the cards and combustion for the compositing, tracking and color correction.

[rquinn]

dosent work

[Volcandro]

Sorry it's the bandwith of angelfire ...
Is there a better place there i can put my videos ???
Thanks

[CnexS]

haha looks really nice ! :D

i think i like the helicopter the most :)

[Beastie]

Cool little vids. Keep up the good work!

[jellyfish]

When it comes to showing your animation or video here, you have a couple decent choices (besides the free, bandwith-limited hosting).

1) Purchase your own webspace. Check with your internet provider, maybe they can give you a deal. Look around for web-hosting services. It's usually less per month than your internet connection, and well worth it if you want to share your stuff.

2) Setup a web server, or more simply, an FTP server on your own computer (check download.com for a variety of FTP server SW you can try). This only works if you have a high-bandwidth connection. If you setup an FTP server, you then post a link like this: "FTP://123.456.789.101/movies/mymovie.avi" -- assuming that the numbers is your assigned ip address and the FTP server is setup to host the movies folder. Most internet providers try to discourage you hosting your own servers (since it eats up their bandwidth) by periodically changing your ip address. You can get around this by using a service like 2myDNS (http://www.2mydns.com/ ) that keeps track of your ip address and reroutes any traffic to whatever address you currently have. Note: when people start downloading your files, your internet connection is going to go down the drain, at least until the rush is over. You can limit the speed of connections through the FTP host software, though.

I personally have setup option #1, since it doesn't detract from my own internet use, and is the least hassle. However it costs money. I used Google to find web hosts, then chose the one I thought had the best deal. Keep an eye on the fine print, those 4.95 deals aren't usually what you want. Remember, if you can find one that gives you a good amount of storage space, and more importantly, EXTREME or UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH, it is worth a little more money :).

Just as an example, I am hosting a single file that I linked as a mirror on cgtalk. The file is 28MB, and my bandwidth usage for this file alone has been about 300MB per day. And my mirror is the 5th one posted, so the others are probably getting much more demand! So make sure you are accounting for the amount of traffic you will have.

I'm not sure if I'm allowed to plug any specific host, but if you want to know the one I am using, send an email to me at digitalnuke@yahoo.com.

jellyfish

[yboris]

good work ... you inspired me into trying out Combustion ... I downloaded the demo and now I'm all confused - it can't even open AVI or MPEG !!! ... well - i'll figure it out sometime :shrug:

you keep going and do more work :thumbsup: :D

[Volcandro]

Combustion is very good for compositing work but is very very slow especially with particle system :annoyed:

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