Composite animation test

Artwork Animations
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I’ve been hooked on “special effects” lately (mixing CG with real-life footage), and here’s a little test I whipped together to test a concept:

http://vidar.gimp.org/blender/spiderthingy.jpg
(click to open movie, about 800KB)
(or youtube.)

Pardon the crappy “spider” (if one is allowed to call a squashed sphere and eight cylinders that).

It’s all based on one single photograph of our dining room table - no video. A little more realistic camera shake and a bit of sound would probably go a long way, but that’ll have to wait for the next one (which I’m hoping to base a small tutorial on).

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it’s better than I can do great job :slight_smile:

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(long drawn out, amazed) Ni…ce…

Only thing is that the green guy has little or no shadow.

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Yes, the shadows (AO only, actually, as there were no particularly bright light sources around at the time) looked darker prior to adding the table texture. A lesson for next time. :slight_smile:

Hmm, perhaps baking the AO onto the creature and just using a regular soft shadow on the table will work.