Thanks for your warm comments about the film.
Yes the disco frames were amongst the longest
to render due to the transparency of the faces and
the transparency of the disco walls. This part
is also the one that was most reworked through
AfterEffects (echo + blur + colorization).
Flashes were however obtained through strong
lighting in POVray.

The movement of the faces was generated by
the same crowd behavior engine as the one I
used for the other parts of the film including
a crowd. For the disco it was a no-target movement
whereas other crowd displacement resulted from
target-directed displacements.

Next film will be on the theme of "frontiers",
probably more abstract, figuring worlds of different
colors, shapes, and dynamics, and how they interact
or compete.

-Christian

tommy wrote:
>Christian Jacquemin wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>The tool has been used to make a 5'30 film. The images were
>>rendered from the files generated by VC. The film compositing
>>and special effects have been made with AfterEffects.
>>Rendering time was relatively long (~ 4 months CPU), but I am
>>really happy with the quality of the images made by PovRay.
>>I just got one small problem with flat objects that were
>>ignored when they were seen from above almost vertically.
>>
>
>Hi Christian,  Man the movie is great...  Specially the last part where it
>is all disco-blurry with moving and dancing faces (as soon as they enter
>the house)...   The music is very good also and boots at the moment...  For
>info, I saw the quicktime version.  4 months, I can understand that it took
>you so long because of transparency but the shaking transparent shapes
>(with human glow-frame inside) are great and their flipping speed is
>good...
>
>Very nice job !!  What's your plan for the movie ??
>
>Tommy
>
>
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