light streaks

#1

hey jeremy,
i was wondering what the best way to create light trails would be?
(like this example http://i1.treklens.com/photos/7195/jhbskylinerings2.jpg)

i figure if it was an animation, i would just open the shutter and have the light move, but if i were to do a single frame shot, how would you do it?

would it be best to just create a curve/polygon and put some sort of incadescent shader on it? or is there some way just to draw a curve and have maya or whatever i was using for rendering to calculate it.
thanks for any advice you can give.

#2

That image link still doesn’t work for me, but you could indeed do light streaks by animating the position of a light (or a brightly shaded sphere) and rendering with motion blur. This would be true for 1 frame render or more. However, I’d probably be just as happy extruding a surface along a curve, so the whole streak was modeled. Then you could give that surface a glow, or transparency, or whatever you wanted to make it look like a streak.

-jeremy

#3

Hey Jeremy, before the end of last semester, you told us about a studio that was opening up in the SF area, but I can’t remember the name.
I think you said it was going to be primarily motion capture based or something like that.
Do you remember what it"s name was?

#4

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