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From: Steffen Walter
Date: 14 May 1998 08:14:09
Message: <355AE011.6E6C57EC@student.uni-tuebingen.de>
Hi to all MovieProject participans !


I just wanted to sum up what I think about general characteristics of a first
story.

If we want everyday people to get attracted by our movie (and not only the
raytracing society), there must be a real story.  In this case, we will also


I fully agree that we are not able to synthethize true human or animal
characters using computer graphics (nobody can do this today so far), so what
are our choices ?
Human beeings in armors would be much easier to create. But creating a still
photograph of some humans in armors is easy, while animating them is very
difficult, just think of all the details you have to check out if you want to
create animated persons whith human-like movements!


movements. But you still can identify yourself with your hero.

There is yet another major possibility: things are much easier if our
characters are sitting in vehicles (as starships, cars, ...) because you will
only need minor movements of the character itself, while animating the vehicle
is easy and effective.


some space battle is suitable for our max. 10 minutes "trial movie". There are
plenty ways to realize these two subjects, you can include a lot of ideas, and
it can be quite thrilling though. Just think of all the car hunting sequences
in the Hollywood action movies !

Last, I think the one-and-only overall genre for our movie will be science




Tell me what you think of it.


Steffen Walter


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