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Re: Animation: Space ship taking off
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lugnet.cad
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Fri, 2 Jul 1999 17:26:56 GMT
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Fredrik Glöckner <fredrik.glockner@bio.uio.no> wrote in message
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> I've made a short animation. It features a space ship taking off. It's
> 160 frames, 128x96 pixels per frame and approx 5 seconds. (24 frames
> per second.) I've used the MPEG1 compression standard, which achieves a
> nice total size of 100KB.
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> You can download the animation from:
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> http://www.math.uio.no/~fredrigl/technic/space/space.mpg
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> I'm planning to make a better presentation later on, with many different
> downloadable files in different compression ratios, as well as different
> formats and sizes. I'll also explain in painstaking detail how it was
> done. But for now, I'm only interested in comments as to the movie
> itself. What do you think?
Very cool, and well done! The lighting is great, and the moving camera view
is spectacular.
> And can you see that the pilot turns his head slightly before the canopy
> slams?
Hard to see at this size and compression.
> And is the smoke too cheesy? I didn't get around to work too
> much on that part.
It only starts to look cheesy when the ship is turned and high off the pad,
then it's obvious what those shapes are. At the start it looks fine.
Overall, it just looks very cool. Looks like it belongs at the opening of
some fighter simulation computer game.
-John Van
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| (...) He looks towards the camera in the beginning, and then turns his head forward. I think I want to turn his head even more towards the camera in the beginning to emphasize the effect. (...) Yes, I agree. I think there may be a little to few of (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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| I've made a short animation. It features a space ship taking off. It's 160 frames, 128x96 pixels per frame and approx 5 seconds. (24 frames per second.) I've used the MPEG1 compression standard, which achieves a nice total size of 100KB. You can (...) (25 years ago, 2-Jul-99, to lugnet.cad)
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