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Daniel-B
10-18-2003, 05:29 PM
Hey guys. This is my first posting of artwork here. I am 20 years old, and just started at college. My college filmmaking teacher wanted me to create a short film to promote our campus television station. Since I am not a filmmaker, but a visual effects artist, I know the filmmaking/acting is not the best. However, I hope you will enjoy it for it's visual effects.

Just some info. The live action shots were filmed on a Canon GL2 digital video camera. I then used Adobe After Effects to give the video a "film look." The UFO was created in 3ds Max and rendered there as well. All other effects were made with a combination of Adobe After Effects, Combustion, and Photoshop for textures/matte paintings.

This was bascially to put CG objects into real scenes, and to test motion tracking and matte painting. I used a lightprobe to take images from all my scenes. I used LDRI to light the surface of the UFO. I also used a yet-to-be-released Ambient Occlusion plug-in that a friend of mine wrote for 3ds max. Please offer any critiques and comments that you wish.

It's a Quicktime Movie....10MB....You can download it here.....

UFO Commercial (http://www.innervisionstudios.net/oe/UFOcommercial.mov)

or here.......

UFO Commercial Mirror (http://fanfilms.pesanka.com/movies/full/pixelmagic/UFO/UFOcommercial.mov)
Magic
10-18-2003, 08:19 PM
this is some great stuff, but the end is a bit unsatisfying, it gives me a feel of "I want more". there isn't much special effects in the movie, but the effects that are there are really well done. hope to see more of your work soon! :applause:
unclebob
10-18-2003, 08:35 PM
Maybe it is just my setup, SB Live & 4 speakers, but the dialog volumn compared to the special effects was much weaker. The special effect were really good. I liked the laser from the ship on the building and the blast effect on the sign.
Daniel-B
10-18-2003, 08:51 PM
Yeah, the audio is messed up. I'm not sure why. And don't worry you will see more. We are working on Part 2.
Dreamwave
10-19-2003, 02:56 PM
looks good, but when the guy with the sunglasses goes outside and sees the UFO, it's reflection should be visible in his glasses...
pierre
10-19-2003, 05:16 PM
hey the FX it's good :thumbsup: you can try to improve the smoke....the problem it's the editing of this movie ....the timing that you have choose in some shot it's wrong :hmm: .....check when the ufo fire to the guy...

cya! pierre
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