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12:11 AM
Enterprise blocking
Nice to start to be able to see the shape come out...
 
12:46 AM
The is painful to model
It's all fairly simple, but there isn't really any good reference
So it's hard to figure out the different shapes
 
12:59 AM
@TARDISMaker I @GiantCowFilms ______? Is what?
 
The Animation project
 
1:10 AM
I am the animation project?
or I am involved with the animation project?
good luck animating me :P
 
@GiantCowFilms involved :P
 
DP would actually be really fun, and I think I could do a good job at it. I love fiddling with camera animation : )
 
That's why I was asking :)
If you weren't going to, I'd kind of want to
Although I don't know that I'd do a good job
I don't really play around with the camera a ton
 
That being said, I'd have some tough rigging ahead of me.
I haven't executed all of my theories, I just know it can be done :P
 
What kind of rigs?
 
1:23 AM
Camera rigs
camera animation is all about the rigs
 
@GiantCowFilms Yeah
I was wondering what kind of camera rigs
 
That is my secret sauce ; )
 
:P
I've never really tried giving a camera a rig
I tried out an addon that gives you a dolly and crane rig, but that's about it
 
It seems so simple, but there is a lot more too it.
 
Yeah
 
1:24 AM
@TARDISMaker Can you send me a link to this addon?
I wonder how good their crane rig is. The crane rig is my worst enemy.
 
I remember wanting to make a dolly rig that follows a path, but not really figuring it out
@GiantCowFilms If I can find it
Just a sec
Think that's it
Beorn Leonard recommended it in one of his animation courses
 
Similar to what I have built before
 
Okay
 
Although I am not the biggest fan of using track to contraints...
 
Have you ever tried making a track dolly rig?
 
1:30 AM
Sure...
The simple version is called .
:P
 
You mean the overly simple version :P
I was meaning following a curve
 
@TARDISMaker Curves and I go way back.
I don't talk to them any more :P.
 
1:51 AM
@someonewithpc What about "<Title of Movie/Cult 'o N3wb>, an open movie created by the users of blender.stackexchange"?
 
I'm realizing that we can't call it THE BSE animation project, because we may end up wanting to make another at some other point
 
BTW, what are the pay and benefits? I'm trying to start a 401k. The blender foundation pays its people for the open movies, I expect the same.
 
Do you?
 
You might be expecting a bit too much
:26683197 Um...
 
1:56 AM
Not to mention the vacation days, free room and board, and free cafeteria lunches.
@TARDISMaker :P
@gandalf3 Would you mind taking a look at a rather stubborn soft body sim? I've run out of things to try.
My object explodes or something on frame two.... nothing seems to be able to fix it.
 
downloading
 
2:16 AM
@TARDISMaker the next-gen is sooo much cooler of a ship than the original.
 
Original series 4 evur
 
Camera rigs. Of course! Why have I never thought of that?
 
@GiantCowFilms What are you trying to simulate?
 
You can tell I don't do animation much :P
 
Blowing in the wind?
Or something more complicated?
 
2:27 AM
Getting run over
 
ah
 
Ever seen interstellar
?
 
Yes
That flat tire was so unrealistic.. :S
 
Just 'cause they were probably paid by ford doesn't make their truck capable of catching up to a flying drone while driving through corn with a flat tire...
 
2:34 AM
That was a dodge.
:P
 
oups
 
Which is funny, cause if it was product placement, it failed. XD
 
XD
(maybe that's why it was ford who paid them ;)
 
2:38 AM
XD
 
Though probably the most unrealistic thing about that whole scene was flying the drone with a trackpad (and not crashing within 10 seconds)
 
@gandalf3 That guy was their best pilot....
oh wait, but the kid did it....
 
Murph landed it though
ye
 
3:07 AM
@gandalf3 the ship was cooler next-gen, but yeah, i like original better for most things. except kirk is a dweeb.
 
Adobe story makes me wait 30 seconds to do what amounts to creating a new document in word.
 
3:24 AM
My entree into the: Most dramatic way to abuse a stick figure contest
 
rules: must be drawn in MS paint.
:-)
multiple frames may be drawn and animated.
(animation not in MS paint, of course)
 
3:45 AM
I am declaring Most dramatic way to abuse a stick figure contest "on topic" for this room. (for the next 24 hours)
 
Take that ^^^ @GiantCowFilms. LOL MUAUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ do you want to enter?
 
@David That's you!
:-)
(ignore the dunce part)
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ How is this one? ^^
 
4:20 AM
my images of badly drawn tortured stick figures are not on topic, so you can't object!!!!!
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
 
 
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5:42 AM
@X-27 why does the anvil have a crossed out female symbol thing on it?
and is there a blue tortilla chip and a piece of cobbler or something beneath it?
 
@GiantCowFilms I feel like that same feature was recently mentioned by Reynante Martinez or someone
@RadishofKnowledge Spock ftw
 
6:34 AM
@GiantCowFilms If I delete your softbody settings and use the defaults it behaves fairly normal. Not sure what exactly causes the weirdness with your setup
With the idea of optimizing things a bit I tried using soft body physics on a curve, with a plan to use a curve modifier to deform the corn to the curve, but I didn't have much success..
 
 
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1:42 PM
@GiantCowFilms whoa!
 
2:39 PM
@RadishofKnowledge that is a stick figure in a dramatic pose with half his body under the anvil.
 
2:51 PM
ooh a contest?
I love stick figures!
lets see lets see
most dramatic way to torment a stick figure? Is that right?
 
Yah!
exactly like that
 
Ok Ok I drew something
Hows THAT for dramatic?
 
I'm going to go for one stick figure holding a power drill in the the arm of another, bound stick figure, with spatters of blood everywhere.
I might draw that later.
 
thats pretty gross.
And dramatic :D
 
@BookWyrm17 Wow. just Wow.
that is dramatic....
 
2:55 PM
I like drawing pictures with a story :D
 
@BookWyrm17 Aaaah! It's just "whence", not "from whence"! The "from" is redundant!!!
 
as the nightmares whence you have awoken?
That sounds wrong. But then again, I've only used it a couple times.
You can forgive the villain being redundant, right? They do that often, to make a point. :P
 
:P But seriously, everybody messes that up.
 
heh heh, Me too, apparently.
Though if EVERYONE messes it up, wont it make more sense to the masses if you say it wrong, and eventually that wrong way will actually be right?
I thinks thats how a lot of slang came about...
 
"is as dark as the nightmares whence you have come" is correct. "from which you have awoken" sounds more proper to my ear.
@BookWyrm17 It's about half and half in terms of what I've encountered in literature.
 
2:59 PM
Hmm... I kinda considered that, cause when he says "You are awake" it doesn't sound as proper and weird as "Whence" so its like he was surprised which isn't as dramatic
 
I'll stop being annoying now. :P
 
My picture scared you though :D Even if the offending item was a grammar mistake, it achieved the goal it was meant to make! Dramatic, scary, panic inducing.... :P
 
Okay scratch that, I'm not going to stop being annoying.
@X-27 It's "entry", not "entree". "Entrees" are things that you eat. If you want the plural form, it's "entries".
When we were working on the Suzanne Aerial Fighter game, I thought you were using it jokingly.
Now I'll stop being pedantic for a while. :P
 
heh heh
hey have you looked at the Storyboard page yet today? I think we really need to decide on a story so we can get this moving.
 
@BookWyrm17 Yeah, I was just editing it as you wrote that message.
 
3:12 PM
:P I see your name now
 
ok I'm amending the rules, you can draw your dramatic stick figure with anything you want.
 
wait there were rules?
 
That was really the only rule, which I just abolished. That and,
12 hours ago, by X-27
multiple frames may be drawn and animated.
 
ah :D
 
3:50 PM
@RadishofKnowledge To be honest, I was more going for the movie series (I haven't seen any of the original... yet) But I think they're fairly similar designs. The new one just being a tad bit more modern.
@GiantCowFilms I love that they actually filmed them in the car with a stunt driver on the roof. That's part of the added realism you get with Christopher Nolan. No green screens when you can do it for real!
I actually bought the music from the corn field bit of the movie
One of the best examples of how amazing the music is in it
 
4:08 PM
@TARDISMaker Probably cheaper than green screen since they owned the cornfield anyway
 
Probably
 
@gandalf3 Thanks for trying : )
 
@GiantCowFilms Of course he created and blew up a whole hospital for one of his films . . .
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@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ thats a bit excessive
 
4:14 PM
like the plane stunts
and the truck flip
 
@GiantCowFilms But the plane stunts did look pretty fantastic
 
lol, but utterly awesome
If I had access to that much money for a film, I'd probably do the same thing . . .
 
I'm not saying that it isn't excessive, but when you have the money to spend, you might as well do it
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ Yeah
 
who wants to animate a plain blowing up when yo can buy a plain and a missile and get it realistically?
 
Missile?
 
I have a feeling that if you where to blow up a plane, you would synthesize the explosions
 
In films, I'm pretty sure they rarely have explosions done how they would actually look
Because it's too boring
 
but that's a good enough reason for me :)
 
4:18 PM
some of them would look like that, but rarely
like a gas station blowing up
 
Yeah
 
not a car
It isn't as exaggerated as i thought, just sped up a bit
 
Okay
You found a video on Youtube or something?
 
4:30 PM
lol, lots of explosives there
 
Yeah
Essentially a movie explosion
 
Although I think they would go slightly more over the top if it was for a movie
I want to make a movie, where there is a bridge that is being built, and is packed with explosives
So like for the first our or so of the movie, you basically see the main character driving by it to get to work
And then at the hour, hour and a half point, it explodes
 
 
2 hours later…
6:05 PM
@Gwenn @Gwenn I talked with an editorial friend and she didn't see any issue with "From Whence" cause it talks about a place.
Of course she could be wrong.... but it IS her job!
(who's annoying NOW?)
 
Where/whence/whither // There/thence/thither // Here/hence/hither // (Place)/(from place)/(to place) [citation and citation]
 
@gandalf3 I don't like the part of "the users of Blender.stackexchange". Maybe just "from The Renderfarm"?
 
6:27 PM
Does anyone know of a good batch rename addon?
I tried using Greg Zaals, but it wasn't quite up to date (or I just didn't know how to use it, but it threw me an error anyway)
 
@Gwenn From whence is perfectly normal, and is used quite often in especially old literature. Especially in conjunction with the propagation of ideas
 
Never mind, I was using it wrong
 
@TARDISMaker oh
i never saw any of the movies. :P
 
@RadishofKnowledge Really?
 
6:35 PM
Their good
although I don't know what they're like compared to the original series
Probably not as good, or just very different
(just to clarify, I'm referring to the 2009 reboot)
 
7:14 PM
@gandalf3 After playing with the cloth sim so more, I managed to get a somewhat usable result:
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I will need to do some tweaking as well triple the density of the corn stalks, but its promising.
Sadly it takes over 1 minute per frame to bake.
 
Nice!
Are you trying to recreate that scene from Interstellar?
Or is this something unrelated?
 
similar idea, but completely unrelated.
The scene from interstellar was just really really good reference
 
Okay
 
@GiantCowFilms Oooh!
 
7:19 PM
1 minute per frame is pretty good for a bake BTW
How does it respond to mild wind?
 
Haven't tried yet
I'mg going to test first with more corn
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ If you want to do blowing in the wind, I would use a completely different soft body sim
The soft body sim is actually way better overall, it just explodes on frame two for no reason.
 
@GiantCowFilms ah
It would really help the realism
 
Yes
What I will probably end up using is two systems
one for the corn that gets squashed, and one for the corn that is just sitting on the sides
I will first try force fields for the squashed corn, and after that, if it fails, use some cheap displacement modifier hack :D
Here goes with four times as many corn stalks, 800k faces, all getting soft body simmed!
 
bbl, unusablely slow my computer has become.
 
7:25 PM
lol, have fun :D
 
Oh.
@Gwenn
From Whence is a real thing... but not in the way I used it.
 
7:39 PM
@NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ It is now 7% done
 
@gandalf3 in your opinion, if you were going to torture a stick figure, how would you go about doing that?
 
bad idea
stick figures should be lines or sticks
 
@X-27 Explosion :D
 
@X-27 Oh. Torture, not texture
Eraser
 
7:44 PM
Ahh
that would be painful - a giant pink rubber thing of removla
emanating emptiness and nothingness.
 
maybe.. I had a slightly better idea...
brb
 
 
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9:11 PM
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While processing HDRS I found this photo I took in Hawai'i
 
@GiantCowFilms :O
:O*10^1000
Woaww
 
@GiantCowFilms Awesome!
 
BTW, its not unprocessed.
I ran it through camera raw to give it a bit of omph
 
of course
omph addition is almost always needed :P
(at least on my pictures :/)
 
For reference, that is the original.
 
9:17 PM
:O
 
The cool monochromish look comes from the ND filter
 
I like how the water is so ghostly
What shutter speed was this taken at?
 
3 seconds
 
ah
 
I had a 10 stop ND filter... so not much choice
 
9:19 PM
3 seconds into the sun at that :O
 
really long, or really short XD
 
lol
 
@GiantCowFilms That looks really good!
 
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'Nother one
 
The color really came out after you processed it
@GiantCowFilms That looks awesome!!!
 
9:23 PM
Whoa
I like that even more :O
 
BTW, Those were right after an HDR, so you will soon be able to have that lighting in your scene.
 
\o/
 
@GiantCowFilms Cool!!!
 
Of course you will have to give it the cool colors yourself :P
 
Yeah
 
9:27 PM
The 120 frame soft body sim I started 2 hours ago is now at 50%!
 
@GiantCowFilms Yay!
Those are the worst
 
What a let down... ever since I started using a 10mm lens, my panos are now only 169 mega pixles instead of 220ish. Man, I really miss those extra 40 million pixles.
I used to be able to see ants on the ground, now its only large Beatles.
My sfot body sim is now at 52%
It feels like its nearly done.
BTW, with a simulation does apply to shapekey make it animated, or does it only keep that one frame?
Is there a script to turn a simulation into shape keys?
 
@GiantCowFilms just the one :S
 
D:
my project for tomorrow is going to be to try and compile blender. I'm starting to feel the need for some features
I accidentally left out some photos from my HDR stitch, and ended up with a better stitich of the remaining parts. Now if I put them back in, and combine the files, I will end up with a nearly perfect stitch :D
 
9:44 PM
@GiantCowFilms What features?
 
Simulation stuff
UI stuff
the cycles baking UI needs to well ... be given a UI.
 
Okay
Time to fix my green icons. Yay?
(my desktop will look much better when that's done)
 
10:02 PM
@GiantCowFilms Nice pics
 
Thanks
 
10:41 PM
does anyone have dogs other than me in this chatroom???
 
@RadishofKnowledge Not me, no
 
i don't think @NᴏᴠɪᴄᴇIɴDɪsɢᴜɪsᴇ or @GiantCowFilms have dogs...
@TARDISMaker or @BookWyrm17 might
 
@Gwenn might too
 
I do.
 
I want a dog.
 
10:44 PM
@Gwenn Knew it! Your seeming obsession with foxes...
 
Foxes are awesome.
 
@Gwenn cool, what kind???
 
But, you know, dogs are better.
 
@EBrown get one
 
Not allowed.
 
10:45 PM
@EBrown As in less dangerous? Yeah, probably :P
 
@EBrown appartment?
 
@someonewithpc Maybe. Though watching a fox pounce is just amazing.
@RadishofKnowledge Yeah, landlady won't let me get one.
 
@someonewithpc i've seen some pretty passive foxes.
there was one in Vail that i played fetch with
 
@someonewithpc I like the family Canidae, but Canis familiaris isn't my favorite species. I just seem to be slightly better at drawing Vulpes vulpes than other canids.
 
@Gwenn And you have a few Canis Lupus
 
10:47 PM
I submitted a (very simple) patch: developer.blender.org/D1716
 
@RadishofKnowledge Two dogs, one black lab, the other a mix.
 
@Gwenn Fair
 
@Gwenn i love labs. i got two
 
@Gwenn I'm jelly.
 
@RadishofKnowledge Wolfs?
 
10:48 PM
@RadishofKnowledge And one Canis latrans
 
I really want a Weimaraner.
 
*Canis lupus* = grey wolf
*Canis latrans* = coyote
*Canis familiaris* = domestic dog
*Vulpes vulpes* = red fox
 
@Gwenn Yeah I know (and I have google, too :P)
But, like, you have a wolf?
 
Ah no, @RadishofKnowledge meant that I've drawn a few.
 
10:50 PM
@Gwenn Oh, ok
 
I'm drawing a lynx right now.
 
@Gwenn Cool
 
@RadishofKnowledge I don't
Not allowed to have them where I live
Plus my mom and sister are allergic
 
@RadishofKnowledge Absolutely not. Most of the people in our family have a major dislike for them.
 
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