[Stryke 9]

This one, I'm pretty sure it's compressed, but there's really no ****ing way to tell, the way my software's corrupted. Enjoy, you miserable ingrates.
http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/f-bomb.avi

Oh, and yes, it's a giant spaceborne bomb exploding over the Earth. There's another half to it, where the Earth goes blooie, but the file's more than I can fit already, so I didn't piece the two renders together yet.

[Thor]

Easy boy, down, down.  That was cool.  I'd love to see the second half, and will wait patiently till it is ready.

[Stryke 9]

GRR!


Well, you'll have to wait a while. I'm re-rendering to get rid of that premature lens flaring, and it'll take a while to get that through and processed...

[Stryke 9]

Mmm... More mediocre goodness. Yeah, the shockwave looks really damn strange, that's because there's no real way to make a good-looking shockwave without modeling the whole thing and then rendering it in LightWave, which I have no intention of doing. I didn't do the whole ground-cracking-and-flying out thing because it all happens too fast to see, anyway. Anyway, yeah.

http://www.wpierce.com/wlp/FB2.avi

FUN FACT: Carrara doesn't have any function for letting you minimize the screen when it's really busy or locked up.

FUN FACT 2: Watching a 5-second animation render over half an hour rates just below watching grass wither and die.

[Redfang]

Stryke 9, being negative, as always.
 
I like those, at the first one it just floats there for pretty long, and then it happens fast...
 
The second one is good, too.

[Stryke 9]

Yeah, when I piece it together (when I can get an Earth exploding that I can stand to look at), I'm gonna try to postwork in a little doomsday countdown in the corner, going at one second every second and a half.

[wEvil]

you could, of course, provide more a objective analysis of your work for our perusal?

[Stryke 9]

That was it. I've done stuff I liked, and thought was good. THis, it ain't. But I couldn't tell whether it was me noticing what was lacking, because I knew it was there from the start, or whether it was evident in the clips. I guess it's good enough for production. [shrugs]

[Thor]

The second wasn't bad.  I'd like to see it again when YOUR happy with it.

[Stryke 9]

Probably won't happen, because I know exactly what I want to do to make it look good, and it either involves:

1: two or three days of modeling one damned ring wave, then porting it into a whole buncha programs

2. Learning LightWave, bringing everything into that, andd doing some of the more complicated effects in there.

Neither's a likely option, because there's no way in hell I'm gonna play with the same hundred vertices for a good chunk of a week, and it's even less likely that I'm gonna learn LightWave before I decide to screw it. I only have a couple weeks left to do this stuff, and that's time I need to spend on getting Boris and Premier to do what I want.

[wEvil]

3: learn a peice of software without a dog-slow renderer?

[Stryke 9]

Carrara's actually pretty damn fast. It's the 250+ frames that's a bit irritating, especially when it's four bajillion degrees outside, the sun's blinding, and I'm supposed to be in bed, asleep. For some reason, I just can't stay awake at night this week.

Oh, and I found a way to do realistically moving, shape-conforming shockwaves in about half an hour in Ray Dream. Take THAT, 3DS MAX.

[Stryke 9]

Shockwave updated. That's all I care to do right now, the rest is postwork.

[Xelion]

You should try using adobe after effects, they've got some cool stuff you can add in and perhaps if you would like I could send you a copy of a commercial piece of software called Alam DV1, its a highly specialised piece of special effects program that allows you to turn a normal movie clip into a full action film; well something close to that...

If you want Alam DV1, email me and I'll see what I can do...

[Stryke 9]

Not entirely sure what it does, but...

No thanks. I have enough trouble with Boris FX, Premier, and my other video effects equipment. Anything that hits this computer instantly gets corrupted, and it takes me a while to figure out whether it's gonna be safe kinda corrupted or whether it's gonna go insane and delete two or three hard drives or something.

[Sandwich]

Hey Stryke, are you looking for something like this? I did it a while back in Illusion; don't know if you got to see it or not...

Anyway, it's an (IMHO) awesome animation of a supernova, complete with sounds from FS2. Basically I browsed through all the Illusion effects I could get my hands on, and spliced them all together.

[Stryke 9]

Pretty cool.
Nah, the explosion itself is fine (if I feel like it I can always stick in some more stuff on that end; it's not exactly the hardest thing in the world, and I'm not even sure I wanna do that- a chain-reaction fusion bomb blast is supposed to be a "clean" blast, nothing has time to combust before it becomes part of the giant, white-hot fireball), what I'm not happy with are the more difficult parts- getting a shockwave to properly wrap around a sphere and look shockwavey, etc.

I'm working on it. That's basically what it's gonna take- working on it, fiddling with stuff. Maybe sticking in an animation transparency mapped to a sphere or summat.

[Stealth]

well i'm sure it is awesome, but i'm getting a 404 error when i click your link

[Stryke 9]

Top one's probably gone. I have about half a kilobyte of webspace up, and get charged an equivalent to the annual national debt increase for every bit I go over.