2010 sci-fi newyears countdown animation

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With the tools at hand, this took 3 long evenings.

Just start playback 46 seconds before 12:00 on new years eve.

Details:
30k ILDA, to be scanned half size at continuous 30kpps frame-by-frame. If you have 25k scanners, start 55 seconds before 12:00 and scan at 25k.

Animation inspired from space ship Discovery One's final demise in the book 2010 a space odyssey. Thank you Arthur C. Clarke for memorable childhood wonder :)


click image:

http://hacylon.case.edu/laser/RayRen...rs/preview.png

Thats great thanks for sharing:D

Hey Andrew,

Thanks for the really cool frames.

Mark

Congratulations man , this is a great show...
Thanks for sharing...

Absolutely G-R-E-A-T ! ! !
Thanks for sharing:)
*DZ

I know this is probably a dumb question, but how do I open this correctly with Pangolin? Maybe if I can open someone else's .ild, I can figure out how to export my shows. :confused:

Does everybody realize the uniqueness of this ?
Actually downloading free 3d-ilda-artwork of practical use, and of this length ?
Many of you might take it for granted, but elsewhere these animations will cost you up to $10 a frame.

I really like the sound of the galvos, as they seem to provide a soundtrack of the spaceship, a soft roaring as the engines pass by.:D

One little remark; the Y of New Year, seems cut off, it looks more like a U.
Besides that, just great !

Very nice!

Thanks for a great animation.

Greg

Thanks a lot for the feedback, guys. I'll check the Y to see if something's amiss with that font. Allthat, Adam should be contacting you soon about how to do it, sorry I don't know.

cheers!

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... how do I open this correctly with Pangolin? Maybe if I can open someone else's .ild, I can figure out how to export my shows. :confused:

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I haven't tried this particular file yet, but you should be able to open it directly in the Frame Manager in Showtime, then add it to the timeline - at least, I think that's what I did!! :o


Awesome stuff, Andrew -

Thanks for sharing!! :D

yes, that was a dumb question... Use the animate only effect on frame one, add to timeline, strech to desierd length and play. :o For me, I had to set it to 1 minute 14.43 seconds to get the countdown to last for 10 seconds... But it turns out if I start it at 14 seconds into a minute it ends at the 60th second...

Thank you Andrew!!! This must have taken some work. http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/...pictureid=1106

Have you not forgotten what? @drlava

Gento

You have ILD SOS.. go ahead and run blanking optimization on the frames so it looks like this:

http://hacylon.case.edu/laser/RayRen...rs/exhaust.png
(the result of normal path optimization with ILD SOS)
You can even try with your optimus program.

Then, play back the result. see which one YOU like better, my friend. :D There is a reason for those blanking lines that maybe you are about to discover.

Wow dr. lava. Cool! I was trying to figure out how I could do this in my Phoenix Pic Editor, point by point! Didn't know there was software to do this! I will look out for this program, thanks!

>>>>You have ILD SOS.. go ahead and run blanking optimization on the frames so it looks like this: <<<<

I have Optimus

Gento

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Does everybody realize the uniqueness of this ?
Actually downloading free 3d-ilda-artwork of practical use, and of this length ?
Many of you might take it for granted, but elsewhere these animations will cost you up to $10 a frame.

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That is actually pretty stupid, because you can render laser shows from 3DS MAX, if you use wireframe or outline rendering (Ink & Paint material) to render a sequence of EPS files. The EPS frames can be converted into ILDA frames without much effort. Now THAT's easy money!

No that's not easy money!
People selling laseranimations have a bussiness to run, maybe a family to feed.
There's nothing wrong charging 10$ per frame.

Converting a original idea creatively into an actual product will take a lot of time and effort.
Choosing to share that product for free, now that is actually pretty stupid, (or a honorable thing to do)
Suggesting it can be done in the blink of an eye, might sound insulting to the topic starter.

I've seen -bart- post frames for general use, how about you, Stoney?
Nope, your first post in the 'laser display files' section is to call something stupid that was supposed to be meant as a compliment. Here's a suggestion we can both work on: it is better to effect change by LEARNING something and DOING something, than try to expose existing (seemingly 'stupid') status-quos in ignorance. So consider this encouragement to post some easy 3D animations, Stoney, and buck the 'stupid' status quo! :)

I found a flaw though... the silence of space. :rolleyes: We need to find some sound for it.

I was thinking that too! :D

Anyone with some sound FX and some time could come up with a little audio snippet I reckon, I'm not sure if something would already be made :p

Nice frames also, drlava. :)

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Anyone with some sound FX and some time could come up with a little audio snippet I reckon, I'm not sure if something would already be made :p

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I'll work on it when I've some time (guess will be thirsday).

drlava
Thanks for taking the time to create this animation.
I would say it's fantastic but I hear that Stoney3K is working on a 4d version with 5:1 sound and "smellovision" so yours will then be second best. :D

Nice one, Fella.

hehe

thanks a lot Jeroen that would definitely add a needed touch !

Stoney3K Hmmm can you describe in details that process you mentioned. Plus list all the tools for that. I want to try it out.

It's a pretty good idea, not sure how well it works as a solution yet though. You'll need a version of 3DS max that has mental ray and the mental ray contour materials.

from here:
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/art...9506&seqNum=30

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Just go to mental ray's Rendering > Render > Renderer menu, and under Camera Effects, enable the Contours switch. (Note that you'll have to reassign your scene materials using one of mental ray's Contour shaders, but that shouldn't be a big deal. Just adjust your line width and color settings until you get the effect you want.)

Then, in the Camera Effects rollout, click on the Shader button in the Contour Output slot and choose Contour PS as the new shader. Click-drag this slot into an unused sample slot in your Material Editor, and make it an instance. In the Material Editor, you will now be able to adjust your output settings, and then you can just type in your final render path for the vector output, with the Adobe Illustrator .EPS format as the suffix (for example, C:\3dsmax6\images\ test.eps). Click on Render again, and you'll produce an .EPS vector file

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from eps, this is a possibility:
http://sk1project.org/modules.php?na...t=uniconvertor

Does this mimic any scene from the movie directly? Can we cut audio from the movie and have it fit? :D

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That is actually pretty stupid, because you can render laser shows from 3DS MAX, if you use wireframe or outline rendering (Ink & Paint material) to render a sequence of EPS files. The EPS frames can be converted into ILDA frames without much effort. Now THAT's easy money!

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Yeah, and creating a car is just a matter of putting together some pieces of metal, a motor you don't even have to make yourself, some chairs and at least some wheels.

Designing a website is just a matter of drawing some shapes, filling them with a color and pasting text from the client his e-mail.

Right?

i have a copy of autodesk, i was wondering if someone could show me how this would be done cause i will upload anything people want if im shown how to do it

cheers ollie

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It's a pretty good idea, not sure how well it works as a solution yet though. You'll need a version of 3DS max that has mental ray and the mental ray contour materials.

from here:
http://www.peachpit.com/articles/art...9506&seqNum=30


from eps, this is a possibility:
http://sk1project.org/modules.php?na...t=uniconvertor

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Ahh mental ray. I know how to use it. It will take forever but it works...but the most important thing. EPS to ILDA. Dr Lava can you implement EPS import to SOS.?

I was able to export EPS from mental ray in text form without any trouble. Conclusion: Only black and White and only one frame. Very useless.

Hey Andrew, I just got the chance to play this and I really like it!
Thanks!
Your resident space cadet,
-Mike

Does anyone have any experience working with Electric Rain Swift 3D?
It seems to have a large variety of export formats and some neat vector rendering options...

Zoof I've been playing with Swift 3d for some time before I got myself Illustrate!. I've been playing a lot with different ways to transfer stuff to ILDA. Swift is good for Flash cartoons but useless for any true vector stuff. 3DS Max+Illustrate!+SOS combo. Is only good alternative to products like Max Convert and Protize MAX. For illustrations there is SVG-ILDA converter.
Best Tracer is TraceIT. We don't really have much. Utopia is good but price is too much.

Did we ever get audio for this? http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/...chmentid=13372 A count down by HAL would be cool. I cant seem to find one online. http://www.photonlexicon.com/forums/...chmentid=13377

It's not a New Years countdown, but I took the different 2001 graphics Drlava has shared with us and combined them into a quick show opener.
It's posted on the FTP server under LD2000 shows - "2001 Intro".

Thanks for making and sharing the graphics, Andrew!!*retardo

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Reposted 2 January 2010

Gawd bless ya Stukey me ole china !!

Nice to get some new frames for the new year. :D

I tried to load this file into norm´s "laser show" software but no go, it sez "loading ild file" but just keep posting error messages.:confused:

It is a fairly large frame set - maybe Norm's software has a file size limit?

Andrew, I have to say I'm very impressed with this animation. Props to you for putting it out for the community to use for free. Well done!

Adam

Cool, thanks Randy. And Adam :)

Exp, last I heard, Norm's soft didn't handle the latest ilda versions but someone on this board was working on it, perhaps you can request an update

It worked just fine in spaghetti so yea NLS probably have a file size limit. Great animation none the less.:)

Many thanks for posting... much appreciated..

Cheers

Ray
NZ

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No that's not easy money!
People selling laseranimations have a bussiness to run, maybe a family to feed.
There's nothing wrong charging 10$ per frame.

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Not in principle. But it might be a little out of proportion if you can render each frame in an automated fashion, and only need to spend an evening fine-tuning the animation in the 3D modeling or animating package.

Sure, if you need to draw/trace/convert each frame from scratch by hand, it's perfectly valid given the amount of work you need to put in a show at that point. In that case, you're no different from a cel animation artist working at Disney.

Doing the math for a two minute show @ 25 frames per second, that makes 3000 frames. $10 per frame = 30K gross, which might be a little out of proportion if you have the means to automate the gross of the process, thereby dramatically reducing the amount of man-hours you need to put in.

Then again, if you ask 30K for a show, automating the rendering process gives you more time to implement even more really cool stuff.

As for free-to-grab 3D ILDA display files: What would you guys like to see? ;)

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What would you guys like to see?

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Amaze us !
Just like the topicstarter did !

We surely could use a looped animation of someone endlessly putting dollar-bills into a laser-projector *retardo