A friend and I made an animation (raytraced, made with Blender 2.36, some month of computing for a little bit more than 2 minutes of animation).
I have now a 40 Mb avi file (41.061.364 bytes) and I am looking for a place to put it … for free !! 8)
I made also an mpeg file that fits the computed picture’s size (DVD format), but it’s 130 Mo and I don’t think anyone except me will be interested (if I’m wrong, tell me).
Well, it’s totaly newbie so don’t expect something professional, it was only made for fun … and don’t expect a change too (too much time to re-compute), but C&C are welcome for sure !
http://rapidshare.de/ maybe?
Well if you want you can register for a free web host like tripod.lycos.co.uk and use an ftp account to upload it… i forgot if google video accepts avi uploads if you wanna look at that.
You should fire up VirtualDub and recompress your AVI using an MPEG4-based codec (like DivX or Xvid) before attempting to upload it to the net. (Tho google will re-encode to a flash-based format for you, I think… still a huge upload for that.) There’s no reason that 2 mins of animation should be 40mb. You could get an account at ourmedia.org (which stores content on archive.org) and post it there. I use them for some of mine and its a great free service. Alternately go to mudpuddle - tho you’ll definitely need a smaller file there.
Just a side-note: probably not such a good idea to post a thread in FP before you even have your work online… if you need a question answered, such as hosting recommendations, post in Blender General first (or better yet, do a search.) Only post here if you’ve actually got something to see… %|
Sorry also, the file is 40Mb but even with virtualdub, I cannot reduce the size without losing a lot of quality (if you can do it, please inform me !). Well, newbie with Blender, newbie with VirtualDub too
What did you original compile your sound and video with? I think that blender is still incapable of compiling the two. You’ll need to compress your video and sound in the video program you originally used, there should be the same codecs avaliable there as in blender.
Alternately, you can play with TMPGenc, which is an mpeg-1 encoder that’s free and very nice. There is a tutorial explaining it on the page I linked to.
Good luck,
LGM
EDIT: I just downloaded and watched it. Nice! It’s a cute story. It just seemed to stretch a little, you know? The timing seemed just a taaad too slow in some places. But only a tad. It was pretty fun.
I like the music, the expressions of the fish, the subtle reflections, and the wallpaper.
Crits:
The camera moves could be smoother in the credits section.
The fish could look shinier.
The room’s furnishings could look less boxy, but I can understand that you would not want to focus on that.
I agree with the camera speed. Even if the camera movements are calculated with blur effect, this is a problem. But the pictures take too long time to calculate, so I will do better the next time
Our idea was to make a first movie, and then reuse the scene for another movie and work on details (object less as boxes, more details and so on). Well … after doing this first shot, I think now it’s better to re-do all
For a neewb movie i think its awethome.
The modeling may not be perfect, and there are isues with camera movement, but its a complete short movie that tells a story.
So keep on, i bet there will be some amazing stuff if you improfe youre technics!
