I 've got a 50.00 Caligari coupon expiring in Dec 2004 - what 2004-11-23 - By Dave Angelini
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Well, for character animation there is nothing better than MotionStudio from
Primitive Itch. The downside is that MotionStudio is not part of any deal
that I know of with Caligari such that your $50 coupon would work on. So
you may be stuck paying the full price...which is not much for such a
powerful plugin ($119 I think). But as far as character animation goes, it
is definitely in the "Must Have" category. There is a Caligari course on
how to use Motion Studio so you could use your $50 on that. The course is
by Oliver Rohe and can be found at
http://www.caligari.com/products/trueSpace/ts5/Courses/characteranimation.asp
?Cate=Courses
As far as "greenscreening" the characters into your backyard, well you don't
need Pinnacle Studio to do that as a shadow catcher global shader in tS
would also accomplish the trick. Basically, you import the backyard film
into the tS background, set up a ground plane to match the background plate,
and use shadow catcher to only capture the character and its shadow as it is
rendered with the background image. Trust me, this is easier than it
sounds....but it can be done. Shadow Catcher is free via the FreeCP
web-site (http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=79113).
There are also other version of this shader and it is even built into tS6.
I hope this helps.
Thanks,
Dave Angelini
-- -- Original Message -- --
From: "Hyaduck, John" <John.Hyaduck@(protected)>
To: <truespace@(protected)>
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2004 9:12 AM
Subject: Re: [TSML] I've got a 50.00 Caligari coupon expiring in Dec 2004 -
what shou ld I buy with it?
> >>What is it you want to do?
> Most likely bring to life some of my son's story characters he keeps
> inventing and then green screen them into our backyard for use with my
> Pinnacle Studio dvd's I make. But I would also love to create educational
> "films" using TS-created characters that help to teach school subjects
> (Math, Science, Language) at an elementary level. Kind of Veggie tales
> "lite".
>
>
> -- --Original Message-- --
> From: TSML [mailto:truespace@(protected)]On Behalf Of Dave Angelini
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 10:34 PM
> To: truespace@(protected)
> Subject: Re: [TSML] I've got a 50.00 Caligari coupon expiring in Dec
> 2004 - what shou ld I buy with it?
>
>
> What is it you want to do?
>
> If you want to increase your animation capabilities, get AniPak. If you
> want to increase your design capabilities, get
> dePak....etc...etc...etc.....I think you get the point. For me, a plugin
> jumps into the "must have" category when it enables me to get something
done
> that I MUST get done. I must admit that there are a few plugins that I
have
> purchased and only used them once (fortunately, they are pretty cheap)
just
> to accomplish something that I could not get done otherwise. This should
> not be odd, as I am sure that everyone has at least one tool in their
> toolbox that they have only used once.
>
> Oddly enough, the plugins which I use the most....we're free (SJ cut
> n'paste, EyeZoom, etc.).
>
> So what do you want to do?
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Angelini
>
> -- -- Original Message -- --
> From: "Hyaduck, John" <John.Hyaduck@(protected)>
> To: <truespace@(protected)>
> Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 3:08 PM
> Subject: [TSML] I've got a 50.00 Caligari coupon expiring in Dec 2004 -
what
> shou ld I buy with it?
>
>
> > For being a loyal buyer and upgrader from 2.0, I got a T-Shirt and a
50.00
> > coupon. I have used this for light modelling, some educational stills
but
> > would like to do more with animation. I have used poser people a bit.
> >
> > I have the gamespace plugin, puppeteer, luuv, poser plugin, but was
> curious
> > as to whether I am totally missing out on any MUST HAVE plugin's that
> noone
> > can live without as I aspire to dive deeper into the product.
> >
> >
> >
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