Glad you liked it.  I'm not completely satisfied with it.  I'm going to
tighten it up, cut it by maybe 4 of 5 seconds (and cut the music to match,
of course) and try some different fonts for the letters.  Also I'll render
it smaller so it doesn't take so long to download.  I'll probably update it
later this evening. (West Coast USA time)

--Gary.

Twyst <twy### [at] twystednet> wrote in article <6jchgq$d12$1@oz.aussie.org>...
> 
> Gary Shannon wrote in message <01bd7e52$1a12ce20$197a89d0@reboot>...
> >I've got an animated "The Movie Project" Logo I made just for fun.  See
> >what you think (Warning, it's a 1.5Meg AVI with soundtrack).  If other
> >people have some logo ideas lets have a look at them ALL and then decide
> >which one to use.
> >
> >Logo Download: http://www.rio.com/~reboot/test.html
> >
> Wow! very cool. I like it! =)
> 
> Twyst
> 
> 
>

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Quicker logo now uploaded.  9.5 seconds instead of 15.5, (cut music to
match) and a smaller render frame for faster download.  See what you think.

http://www.rio.com/~reboot/test.html

--Gary.

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"Twyst" <twy### [at] twystednet> writes:
> 
> Gary Shannon wrote in message <01bd7e52$1a12ce20$197a89d0@reboot>...
> >I've got an animated "The Movie Project" Logo I made just for fun.  See
> >what you think (Warning, it's a 1.5Meg AVI with soundtrack).  If other
> >people have some logo ideas lets have a look at them ALL and then decide
> >which one to use.
> >
> >Logo Download: http://www.rio.com/~reboot/test.html
> >
> Wow! very cool. I like it! =)

The same is true for me. But I think that the "M" can be easily interpreted
as a "W". Perhaps it would make sense to turn the object so that the "M" is
on the upper triangle. Apart from this: Are you sure that the music isn't 
copyrighted?

ThW

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http://www.informatik.uni-konstanz.de/~willhalm/
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Alain CULOS wrote in message <355### [at] bigfootcom>...
>
>I guess you all agree to vote for Johannes as our overall director. Nobody
said so, but by replying to that chances are you agree, yet it would be
nicer if people really said they agree.
>
>Johannes has my VOTE for the seat of director of this project.

Thanks :-)
I never wanted to "ursurp" the position, it only looked like nobody else
*wanted* it. In the original thread everybody was replying something like:
"Oh, cool!, I'm in, only I don't have the time to organize it...". Since I
liked the idea too, I thought "Heck, let's do it..."
If somebody else is really hot on the job, be my guest :-) I am content to
busy myself with the artistic aspects (modeling that is) if somebody else
wants to do the organizing...

To Alain:
I didn't get a mail from you, but judging from your posts here I guess you
are interested, so I put you on the mailinglist anyway. That's ok?

Johannes.

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Perhaps you should make it an MPEG, so it's a bit smaller?

--
Alan Grainger
Member of DNRC
E-mail - scy### [at] geocitiescom
Homepage - http://alansworld.home.ml.org

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I've just downloaded it and looked at it.   I love it!  It's really
professional looking, you know?  Congrats.

--
Alan Grainger
Member of DNRC
E-mail - scy### [at] geocitiescom
Homepage - http://alansworld.home.ml.org

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Gary Shannon (reb### [at] teleportcom) wrote:
: Side note:  It might be nice to include the software we all used in the
: credits.  Something like "rendered with POV-Ray",  maybe mention whatever
: other pieces of freeware and shareware were used ( like Paintshop Pro,
: CoolEdit, etc...) in case others would like to know what they need to do
: that kind of work, and to show what can be accomplished with low-cost
: tools.  Maybe put those multi-thousand dollar software packages to shame!?

  It should be nice to use all the nice features of povray, like reflection,
refraction, atmosphere, halo, lens flare (ok, it's not really a povray
feature, but I think we can consider it so since it's just an include file),
focal blur, maybe radiosity (at least in some scenes) etc. Let's show the
power of a raytracer :)

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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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Gary Shannon (reb### [at] teleportcom) wrote:
: Quicker logo now uploaded.  9.5 seconds instead of 15.5, (cut music to
: match) and a smaller render frame for faster download.  See what you think.

  I liked more the first version.

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Steffen Walter (ste### [at] studentuni-tuebingende) wrote:
: 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.

  Why it has to be so realistic? Someone pointed out that we can use objects
that behave like they were alive, like "intelligent" moving lamps, tables,
etc. I think it's better to make a really good and funny animation with
object-characters than unrealistically rigidly moving cyborgs or robots.
There are lots of examples about this (like the mentioned animations with
the lamps or the table).

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