Compose your own music 2004-03-30 - By Spencer Britton
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A while back, someone mentioned a program that lets you compose your own
royalty-free music. Anyone remember what that was?
Thanks,
Spencer
> Thanks, Dave and RorrKonn.
>
> Both of those were done for a client in England, as well as the Linkbox and
> train accident video. The glass break and train videos were ultimately for the
> London Underground Railroad and were used for training purposes (at least that
> is what I have been told). I don't know the guy on the train, but he was the
> contact between LUR and my client. He is grinning, I assume, because he
probably
> looked like an idiot acting that out on a busy commuter train ;)
>
> I did the brick in TS. The rest was done in After Effects. Your guess is
> correct, I used several layers to brighten the foreground. The glass particle
> effect is a feature in AE. There is a giveaway to the effect if you look
> closely. In the left window you can see something stuck to the outside of the
> glass, and it remains throughout the sequence. It is much less noticeable in
the
> darkened break area. I didn't have time to edit it out of all the frames.
>
> I lucked out on the England flythrough. They told me what they wanted, but had
> no source for materials. I found a great website (whose name I can't remember
at
> the moment) that has aerial photos of the London area. I downloaded probably
100
> of those (hi res) and stitched them together. The moon and earth textures
> weren't too hard to find, but the first zoom in over England from there came
> from NASA's website, buried somewhere in its photos from the space shuttle.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Spencer
> > Awesome work as usual Spencer.
> >
> > The one that impressed me the most was Glassbreak. I would imagine that the
> > window to the left of the man was fake (the one that breaks) while the
> > window directly behind the man was real. If so, they were a dead-on match.
> > If the window wasn't fake, then you figured out a neat way to selectively
> > brighten the outside seen through the hole in the window left by the brick.
> > In any case, I'd like to know how you did it.
> >
> > I also like the headline in the newspaper. Is the man a relative or friend?
> > The look on his face at the end really sells the whole humor of it.
> >
> > Also, I would love a tutorial on the infinite zoom shot in the England film.
> > Great stuff!!!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dave Angelini
> >
> > -- -- Original Message -- --
> > From: "Spencer Britton" <spencerbritton@(protected)>
> > To: <truespace@(protected)>
> > Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 10:05 PM
> > Subject: [TSML] New (Old) material at Velocity3D.com
> >
> >
> > > Hi all, I have recently uploaded several animations and images to my
> > website
> > > for a prospective client to view. Much of it is work for past clients and
> > I
> > > wanted to share it with you. A couple of the movies use live footage and
> > are
> > > somewhat interesting. Take a look if you get a chance.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Spencer
> > > www.velocity3d.com
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