POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.general : Digital fulldome showreel proposal Server Time
30 Jul 2024 18:17:09 EDT (-0400)
  Digital fulldome showreel proposal (Message 11 to 14 of 14)  
<<< Previous 10 Messages Goto Initial 10 Messages
From: Reactor
Subject: Re: Digital fulldome showreel proposal
Date: 4 Jan 2009 13:15:00
Message: <web.4960fc927ef07fb8ffe0bf4f0@news.povray.org>
"Paul Bourke" <pau### [at] uwaeduau> wrote:
> A proposal to the PovRay community .... how much interest is there in the
> production of a PovRay based fulldome showreel?
..
..
..
> - We would need a theme, my choice would be to make it broad enough to support
> enough variation of content ideas.
> - There needs to be a consistent transition between contributions, I'm
> imagining providing a (simple) scene that contributers need to transition
> to/from at either end of the contribution.

The theme transitions can be carried by an object or series of objects that are
present in different sequences.  For example, one scene could be child's room
filled with space posters and close with a half-finished Lego model of a space
craft, followed by a scene from the future with a very similarly built,
full-sized craft (presumably designed by the now grown up child from the
previous scene) shot from a similar angle.

There is also the possibility of making collaborative story boards of the
opening and closing shot of a scene, distributing the source(s) of a single
object that must be present in the scene some way, and giving the users
complete freedom within such constraints.

I am curious, though, as how working with such a media would be.  A simple
animation of a walking figure going around the edge of the dome is far more
interesting than that same figure walking across a flat frame.

Just some thoughts.

-Reactor

P.S. Unless you have a render farm or access to such a thing, I would recommend
distributed rendering.


Post a reply to this message

From: William Tracy
Subject: Re: Digital fulldome showreel proposal
Date: 10 Jan 2009 16:43:07
Message: <4969166b$1@news.povray.org>
There's a spaceship flyby sequence I've been wanting to do for a while 
that would be great for this. :-)

Questions:

What time frame are you thinking of? I expect it to be a month or two 
before I even have time to start working on this :-( and it would 
probably take at least a couple months after that to actually execute 
what I'm envisioning.

What is the sound system on these things like? I assume it's not normal 
stereo. :-P How hard would it be for us to produce our own soundtracks?

Licensing: Some of the sounds I was wanting to use are Creative Commons 
licensed. Is that a potential problem?

-- 
William Tracy
afi### [at] gmailcom -- wtr### [at] calpolyedu

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right 
to say it.
     -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall, frequently mis-attributed to Voltaire


Post a reply to this message

From: clipka
Subject: Re: Digital fulldome showreel proposal
Date: 10 Jan 2009 17:15:01
Message: <web.49691d057ef07fb8168446870@news.povray.org>
William Tracy <wtr### [at] calpolyedu> wrote:
> Licensing: Some of the sounds I was wanting to use are Creative Commons
> licensed. Is that a potential problem?

Depends on the exact type of CC license used... there is quite a variety,
ranging from simple "Attribution" (no problem) to "No Derivative Works" (big
problem).


Post a reply to this message

From: William Tracy
Subject: Re: Digital fulldome showreel proposal
Date: 10 Jan 2009 18:27:18
Message: <49692ed6$1@news.povray.org>
clipka wrote:
> Depends on the exact type of CC license used... there is quite a variety,
> ranging from simple "Attribution" (no problem) to "No Derivative Works" (big
> problem).

Is share-and-share-alike a problem? I have no problem licensing my own 
work under CC to meet the requirement, but I don't know if you want to 
redistribute this in a way that could make other people's movies fall 
under the license as well.

I'm guessing that no-commercial is probably a no-go.

-- 
William Tracy
afi### [at] gmailcom -- wtr### [at] calpolyedu

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right 
to say it.
     -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall, frequently mis-attributed to Voltaire


Post a reply to this message

<<< Previous 10 Messages Goto Initial 10 Messages

Copyright 2003-2023 Persistence of Vision Raytracer Pty. Ltd.