Animations

Sawyer · August 28th, 2003

Just finishing up my little animation project. I am not doing much in the way of compositing or post for the clips. There just wasn't time but I was just reading the review of combustions newest release and I had no idea it had gone down in price. My question is what do those of you who do animation what do you use? Premier, After Effects, combustion?

Thanks

psyanide · August 28th, 2003

I don't do anything fancy to animations. when I render out stills, I use Bink (free from www.radgametools.com). It can turn animations into exe files, so no-one can edit them.
For title pages, I composite images in photoshop, copy them a few times, and add them to the start.

schmoron13 · August 29th, 2003

I use after effects just cause I usually net render the files in max 5.1, and thus just use AE's bmp compositer...Also, since it's an Adobe package, I can insert Illustrator text as layers and not deal with alpha channels

Jaguar lover · August 29th, 2003

I use premier.(just because I havent tried anything else)
render stills in Lightscape, "putting them together" in Premier, adding the clients logo at start and finish and a small logo during the animation.
/K

John Dollus · September 2nd, 2003

I use both After Effects and Combustion on a fairly regular basis and prefer AE. No legitimate reason why other than I have been editing animations for years and the old timeline interface is quicker for me than the node-based interfaces such as Combustion and I have not had time to go through the several hours of training material. Over time, I am sure my preference will change but not today.

Gander0 · September 3rd, 2003

Just finishing up my little animation project. I am not doing much in the way of compositing or post for the clips. There just wasn't time but I was just reading the review of combustions newest release and I had no idea it had gone down in price. My question is what do those of you who do animation what do you use? Premier, After Effects, combustion?

Thanks

Use after effects for compositing. Did a project compositing green screened furry toys in a CG room recently. Worked a treat. Rendered different depths of the CG out separately with alphas and in AE put them all together, this meant correction in 3D Max was very easy as only certain aspects had to be tweaked. Gonna use After Effects a lot more in my 3D work now. Though i think combustion works well with 3DS Max!

nisus · September 18th, 2003

Hi,

We are spending some time at architectural animation (even got nominated for a 3d-award in architectural animation) and use...

*tadadadam*

- Video Post (native in max3.1) for composition of layers, cropping etc. on a per shot basis.
- Premiere to edit finished shots into an animation

That's it... 3dsmax3.1 still is a very robust package... Getting outdated with max6 underway, but still a rock solid beast.

rgds

nisus

STRAT · September 18th, 2003

i render sequentially numbered images directly out of max or c4d, then composite them in max's RAM player. simple as that.

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Sawyer Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: CA Age: 34 Posts: 1,563 Name: Sawyer Fischer	Just finishing up my little animation project. I am not doing much in the way of compositing or post for the clips. There just wasn't time but I was just reading the review of combustions newest release and I had no idea it had gone down in price. My question is what do those of you who do animation what do you use? Premier, After Effects, combustion? Thanks __________________ And you may ask yourself What is that beautiful house?

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schmoron13 Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Syracuse, NY, Walnut Creek, CA Age: 29 Posts: 331 Name: Doron Serban	I use after effects just cause I usually net render the files in max 5.1, and thus just use AE's bmp compositer...Also, since it's an Adobe package, I can insert Illustrator text as layers and not deal with alpha channels __________________ Doron Serban

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nisus Super Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Gent Flanders Belgium Europe Age: 32 Posts: 3,276 Name: Evert Vandenberghe	Hi, We are spending some time at architectural animation (even got nominated for a 3d-award in architectural animation) and use... tadadadam - Video Post (native in max3.1) for composition of layers, cropping etc. on a per shot basis. - Premiere to edit finished shots into an animation That's it... 3dsmax3.1 still is a very robust package... Getting outdated with max6 underway, but still a rock solid beast. rgds nisus __________________ www.ams.be / www.nisusarts.com http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=nisusCGA&p=r

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STRAT Super Moderator Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Cardiff, Wales, UK. Age: 36 Posts: 6,505 Name: Stephen Leworthy	i render sequentially numbered images directly out of max or c4d, then composite them in max's RAM player. simple as that. __________________

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August 28th, 2003	#2 (permalink)
psyanide Member Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Glasgow, Scotland Age: 32 Posts: 63 Name: Sam Pollock	I don't do anything fancy to animations. when I render out stills, I use Bink (free from www.radgametools.com). It can turn animations into exe files, so no-one can edit them. For title pages, I composite images in photoshop, copy them a few times, and add them to the start.

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Jaguar lover Member Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 60 Name: Kent Hulusjö	I use premier.(just because I havent tried anything else) render stills in Lightscape, "putting them together" in Premier, adding the clients logo at start and finish and a small logo during the animation. /K

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John Dollus Veteran Member Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Tampa Age: 38 Posts: 619 Name: John Dollus	I use both After Effects and Combustion on a fairly regular basis and prefer AE. No legitimate reason why other than I have been editing animations for years and the old timeline interface is quicker for me than the node-based interfaces such as Combustion and I have not had time to go through the several hours of training material. Over time, I am sure my preference will change but not today.

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Gander0 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: London, UK Age: 31 Posts: 170 Name: Jan Gall	Just finishing up my little animation project. I am not doing much in the way of compositing or post for the clips. There just wasn't time but I was just reading the review of combustions newest release and I had no idea it had gone down in price. My question is what do those of you who do animation what do you use? Premier, After Effects, combustion? Thanks Use after effects for compositing. Did a project compositing green screened furry toys in a CG room recently. Worked a treat. Rendered different depths of the CG out separately with alphas and in AE put them all together, this meant correction in 3D Max was very easy as only certain aspects had to be tweaked. Gonna use After Effects a lot more in my 3D work now. Though i think combustion works well with 3DS Max!

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