MovieTutes.com

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#1

Hello,
I am currently working on creating a website called movietutes.com. It will be a large collection of tutorials on how to create a movie divided into three parts: pre-production, production, and post-production. It will include how to right a story, copyrighting and legal issues, camera direction, acting tips, special effects (that is where blender comes in) and distribution help. It would be nice if this could be a community project where different people (in and out of the blender community) could write a tutorial and have it posted on the website. I am still working on getting everything set up, but if people would like to start sending in tutorials now that would be great.

Thank you very much,
Clinton Edminster

#2

Hey Pencil Prductions!

I think you would be offering a great resource, one that the community will hopefully embrace. Don’t know if it helps, but here is a link to a tut I have been working on dealing with Optical Motion capture with Blender. So far, section 1 is complete, with section 2 on it’s way…check it out, if it works for your site, I’ll send it to you in whatever format you would like…

http://www.openworldfilm.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=218

#3

cj maynard: i think its simpler to rotoscope just by using your normal armature… why go all the trouble and moving the empties?

.b

#4

Thanks basse- you have a very good point. I patterned this technique after the Syntheyes supervised tracking workflow, and transposed it to Blender…but really, you save the extra step of rigging those empties to the armature, so I am grateful…

(sorry for drifting off-topic pencil productions!)

#5

CJ Maynard:
Yeah, that sounds great. Really good tutorial, that would be fun to try out and put on the website. If you could email it to me that would be great. I am not sure which format would be the best, but I can access pretty much anything. I will have to figure that out.
Thank you very much!