Hasta La Motion!

Hey Guy’s,

Just thought I’d post this up here as a fair few members are lucky enough to be living in London. :p

It’s showing for the next two weekends, get the deet’s here:
http://www.bfi.org.uk/whatson/bfi_so…he_third_kind_

Also showing is the remaster of The Leopard, an absolutely beautiful film well worth checking out on the big screen (if you can last the 3hours 10 min :p)

I’m trying to do a little business math. I’m looking to figure out a typical time and cost for the production of an on-screen cg character. Probably both a digital double for far away shots, and something akin to the quality of a hero close up, such as Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen, the Balrog from LOTR, etc. Obviously I understand that this is completely relative to the amount of work needed to put into it. The more complex the longer it takes (probably with Benjamin Button).

Do you have any knowledge or experience in this area? I’m going through it sort of like this:

Modelling [ x amount of people, on x amount of salary, and x amount of weeks / days]
Texturing [ " ]
Hair ( I wonder how long King Kong took to do!) [ " ]
Rigging (controls, expressions, muscle systems, etc) [ " ]

Everything up till animation and rendering.

If anyone worked on those characters or others like it, could you tell me? I’m looking for something like "It took 5 months to get this X character from beginning to ready for animation with about 10 people working on it from start to finish."

I’ll probably post this on another forum or two, but I was curious to see if anyone had any insight on this topic.

Thanks!
Cory

Hi all,
I have a client that has a 6.5 gig quicktime file, that he needs to give it to me.
He has the file on his Mac pro laptop. I DON"T have a mac. I tried to plug in my external Hd and transfer it but…(of course) Mac has to be different, or difficult. Whichever way you see it.

So, we tried a DD layer DVD. For some reason, he got errors with that.

I tried to hook up an ethernet cable bewteen both computers but I couldn’t get the dam thing to work. It said needs "shared name" & ip".
I know the Ip but share name? I tried the host name, but no luck.

So Now i’m back home and I told him to upload it to my website via an FTP upload. He did that but it took 10 hrs for 1 gig to upload and then failed.

So, my question is :
What is the best,fast & easy way to transfer 6.5 gigs of data from a Mac to a pc? Any thoughts out there?

Thanks,
Lou

Hello my name is Jason and I came across your site- We just wrapped on our small budget horror film Half Moon -we shot the film on 24p digital and are in need of several Visual Effects for the film

see trailer here- http://www.vimeo.com/12377521

1. A werewolf transformation- we shot the actor plain/half makeup/and then the werewolf suit against a green screen

2. a moon turning from half to full

3. a fullmoon digitally added to the end of one of our sky shots-

4. an opening title sequence

we would like to pay someone 200.00 to add this to our movie

please let us know if this is something your company is capable of doing for this amount

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