"Inquisitor" <dec### [at] sybasecom> wrote in message 
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>I wanted to pass on the results...
>
> Here's the YouTube of a low resolutiong version using the technique above.
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>    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TujngLy_QK4
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> Its 480x270 by 15 f/s.
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> I'm currently generating a high res version
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> 1280x720x15 f/s... It should be out in... say... a month or two.
>

It's looking very good indeed and very good to see what you're up to :-).

Although you've not asked for feedback, I've made a few notes in case you're 
still at a stage where you can implement improvements:

There are jumps in the ocean surface pattern about every 10 seconds. There's 
one at about 2min that's quite apparent (play from 1m 58s).

The boat is nice, but I think that making the hull slightly reflective would 
make a huge improvement (though it would lengthen render times). The sails 
look too solid to my eyes. I'd suggest making them slightly transparent and 
playing around with the diffuse settings, although this once again will 
impact your render times.

When the boat starts to turn at 2m 28s, it seems like it needs half a second 
to a second of transition.  Again at 3m 33s the stop is just too 
instantanious and clean (even for someone who's a dab hand on the throttle).

IMO the camera stop at 2m 51 s is too abrupt and the transition to night at 
about 2m 58 doesn't ring true. The shadows on the lights imply that the Sun 
is still very high in the sky. You could maybe move the main light down to 
make the shadows track more. Moving the clouds across the sky and the water 
texture more rapidly during this transition would give a feeling that the 
footage has been sped up. I'd suggest keeping the camera dead still at this 
stage as this sort of shot is typically done with a fixed camera with a 
delay timer.

Regards,
Chris B.

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