Comments on: Mecha-snippet du jour http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/mecha-snippet-du-jour/ the blog that is not dansdata.com Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:50:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.1-alpha by: Keris http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/mecha-snippet-du-jour/#comment-4698 Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:15:30 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/mecha-snippet-du-jour/#comment-4698 Well, other than the already noted technical quibbles, I will add my own: One of my most hated things about amateur green screen work is that nobody seems to pay any bloody attention to depth of field. Take the shot near the end from the gold pile back on the two characters. Everything is too close to the same focus. Not to mention the lighting is very different. I think, for at least that shot, they could have at least gotten some shiny bar props. Also, the dolly in upon the gold pile? It's off as well. Should have used a stand-in pile and then junk matted it out to be replaced with a frame by frame timed zoom on the CG gold. Those CG barrels flying could have used more texturing too, as well as some motion blurring ... Good job, though! Cliched as hell, but for a student work, it's damn good. Just the devil is in the details. Well, other than the already noted technical quibbles, I will add my own: One of my most hated things about amateur green screen work is that nobody seems to pay any bloody attention to depth of field. Take the shot near the end from the gold pile back on the two characters. Everything is too close to the same focus. Not to mention the lighting is very different. I think, for at least that shot, they could have at least gotten some shiny bar props.

Also, the dolly in upon the gold pile? It's off as well. Should have used a stand-in pile and then junk matted it out to be replaced with a frame by frame timed zoom on the CG gold.

Those CG barrels flying could have used more texturing too, as well as some motion blurring ...

Good job, though! Cliched as hell, but for a student work, it's damn good. Just the devil is in the details.

]]> by: corinoco http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/mecha-snippet-du-jour/#comment-4690 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:59:24 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/mecha-snippet-du-jour/#comment-4690 Hmm, typing while under influence of vodka martini not accurate. Sudden urge to play Fallout 3. Hmm, typing while under influence of vodka martini not accurate. Sudden urge to play Fallout 3.

]]> by: corinoco http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/mecha-snippet-du-jour/#comment-4689 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 22:45:08 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/mecha-snippet-du-jour/#comment-4689 "Hang lads, I've got an idea..." The end of the film is a reasonably realistic depiction of the mass of gold, though I suspect a Mini Cooper would need some serious suspension mods to hold that much. As for the film, it was OK for a bit, then got silly. I didn't stick around for the 3 1/2 minutes of credits. More cliches - easy-to-use LAW (Light Anti-tank Weapon - America's answer to everybody else's favourite RP-7) actually have a very deadly (not to mention poisonous, and chocking) back-blast that goes back about 40m, and is lethal for 15m. The backblast wuld likely have blinded or seriously damaged the mech, and the rocket firing into the wall behind him would have maybe put a small hole in it, but likely would have gone 'thud'. For memory, LAWs need about 20m to arm, and you would want to be closer than that when they went off, either. Quite why I was taught how to use one of these things in year 11 high school is a bit beyond me, but I did LOVE cadets. Useful knowledge in today's complex world. "Hang lads, I've got an idea..."

The end of the film is a reasonably realistic depiction of the mass of gold, though I suspect a Mini Cooper would need some serious suspension mods to hold that much.

As for the film, it was OK for a bit, then got silly. I didn't stick around for the 3 1/2 minutes of credits.

More cliches - easy-to-use LAW (Light Anti-tank Weapon - America's answer to everybody else's favourite RP-7) actually have a very deadly (not to mention poisonous, and chocking) back-blast that goes back about 40m, and is lethal for 15m. The backblast wuld likely have blinded or seriously damaged the mech, and the rocket firing into the wall behind him would have maybe put a small hole in it, but likely would have gone 'thud'. For memory, LAWs need about 20m to arm, and you would want to be closer than that when they went off, either.

Quite why I was taught how to use one of these things in year 11 high school is a bit beyond me, but I did LOVE cadets. Useful knowledge in today's complex world.

]]> by: FuzzyPlushroom http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/mecha-snippet-du-jour/#comment-4687 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:41:03 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/mecha-snippet-du-jour/#comment-4687 <i>On 30 Rock, Kenneth has an idea for a game show in which contestants guess which suitcase being carried by models is filled with gold. The show was discontinued for being too easy, as one had only to look for the model who had trouble holding up the suitcase.</i> Well now, they could just put one standard Gold Bar in said suitcase and most models would be unable to lift it! On 30 Rock, Kenneth has an idea for a game show in which contestants guess which suitcase being carried by models is filled with gold. The show was discontinued for being too easy, as one had only to look for the model who had trouble holding up the suitcase.

Well now, they could just put one standard Gold Bar in said suitcase and most models would be unable to lift it!

]]> by: Daniel Rutter http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/mecha-snippet-du-jour/#comment-4682 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:42:44 +0100 http://dansdata.blogsome.com/2009/04/09/mecha-snippet-du-jour/#comment-4682 I also think it would have been awesome if after the machine went down, a cobwebbed Tannoy said "Cat is down. Cat is down. Activate... dog." I also think it would have been awesome if after the machine went down, a cobwebbed Tannoy said "Cat is down. Cat is down. Activate... dog."

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