> The camera is very simple, it's just rotating around a point. Basically the
> same for the peices, simple linear motion. I hadn't planned to post it, as
> it was really just a simple 'proof of concept', but I thought it came out
> nice ;)

I'm very impressed, my proof of concept animations normally look terrible!

> Didn't because of the size. Why would anti-aliasing help the file size?

Video compressors work better on smoother more natural images. It takes them
more room to describe a jagged edge than a smooth one. Obviously the fact that
it's such a long animation will still cause problems, but smoother images should
save a bit of space.

--
Tek
http://www.evilsuperbrain.com


"Tyler Eaves" <tyl### [at] cg1org> wrote in message news:3ea85127@news.povray.org...
> Tek wrote:
>
> > That's a cool animation. I'm not sure building a lego model counts as
> > evolution, perhaps if you had the model change during the animation in
> > response to things happening around it (e.g. it goes underwater and
> > re-builds itself as a submarine!).
>
> Theres an idea, all that lego building could get kinda tedious though! I'll
> probably end up building a house or something.
>
> > As far as the animation itself goes, it's impressive for such early work.
> > I'll try to make some suggestions though I'm sure it will change a lot as
> > you develop it: The movement of the bricks seems a little wierd because
> > they change velocity instantly, it would look better if they gradually
> > decelerated rather than just coming to a sudden stop. The movement of the
> > camera is very nice though it seems to focus on a small detail of the
> > finished plane when I'd expect it to pull back and show the whole thing.
>
> The camera is very simple, it's just rotating around a point. Basically the
> same for the peices, simple linear motion. I hadn't planned to post it, as
> it was really just a simple 'proof of concept', but I thought it came out
> nice ;)
>
> > BTW, if you made it with povray I suggest posting work in progress version
> > to povray.binaries.animations, as people there will be more inclined to
> > download movies. Oh, and you might want to turn on anti-aliasing because
> > that should help reduce the file size (7MB seems a bit much for this!).
>
> Didn't because of the size. Why would anti-aliasing help the file size?
>
> > --
> > Tek
> > http://www.evilsuperbrain.com
> >
> >
> > "Tyler Eaves" <tyl### [at] cg1org> wrote in message
> > news:3ea7f127@news.povray.org...
> >> I'm thinking of entering my first animation, and I've done a very crude
> >> 'concept' test, which likely doesn't resemble what my final entry will
> >> be.
> >>
> >> http://bwphosting.com/~tyler/output.avi
> >>
> >> It's a 7MBish DivX, running time 1 minute.
> >>
> >> Comments much appreciated!
> >>
>

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