weekly challenge #15 - become an FX genius!

Hamsterhill · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 5:48 pm

... well after all my 8 hours rendering and all the errors and waiting... it wasn't even worth it because you tube butchered the effect to the point that you cant even see the fact that the glob is actually sticking together or the awsome texture / alpha i put on them. ... and it came out to slow and i forgot to hide the main glob so it just sits there ... it would look much better once i put the video behind it... I'm assuming that's the next challenge use your FX in a live action shot.... i might try agin if i have enought time and do something simpler that will turn out better.
heres the link - http://nz.youtube.com/watch?v=_KrqpQLkSro

Damascus · **Joined:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:22 am **Posts:** 179

Allseeing...
I am clueless to why you're having difficulties - do you have Flash installed? Everyone else that we've sent the link to can see the page correctly, and everything validates good for xhtml, css & xml.

hamsterhill...
youtube certainly sucks for quality, which is why I'm attempting to host our videos on our own

allseeingeyeoftheman · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:13 pm

Damascus wrote:

Allseeing...
I am clueless to why you're having difficulties - do you have Flash installed? Everyone else that we've sent the link to can see the page correctly, and everything validates good for xhtml, css & xml.

ya, i don't know either, ie shows the same thing too. i have flash installed and can view flash media just fine.

penix1 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:22 pm

ASE, AdBlock can be killing you. It may be treating the video as an advertisement. As a side note, it doesn't play in Konqueror either but does in Firefox (Linux) with adblock disabled.

allseeingeyeoftheman · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:31 pm

penix1 wrote:

ASE, AdBlock can be killing you. It may be treating the video as an advertisement. As a side note, it doesn't play in Konqueror either but does in Firefox (Linux) with adblock disabled.

that's what i thought to and disabled it, but it still wasn't showing. so, i tried a few things. i tried loading the player.swf url directly and that just loaded a blank movie panel with nothing to play. so then i looked at the playlist.xml and downloaded the .flv files and played them with vlc.

what i really enjoy is that people are coming at this challenge from all different kinds of angles and doing something unique.

Hamsterhill · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:34 pm

hey how long tull the end??? because i want to know if i have time to make a different entry or not...

allseeingeyeoftheman · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:38 pm

dan_hin wrote:

due to the unforseen downtime this site has experienced, there is now a two-day extension. entries due tuesday the 30th please!

i'll also announce the next challenge then....

Damascus · **Joined:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:22 am **Posts:** 179

I'll include direct links to the videos on the page as well (as a failsafe).

I also agree... lots of different ideas coming forth for this challenge.

penix1 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:51 pm

Hamsterhill wrote:

hey how long tull the end??? because i want to know if i have time to make a different entry or not...

Don't get me started....

I've said it once, I'll say it a thousand times. You have till the end of time to complete a challenge. The challenge is a challenge of your skills, not how fast you can churn something out.

Hamsterhill · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 6:52 pm

excellent. then ill beable to take my time

Damascus · **Joined:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 1:22 am **Posts:** 179

penix1 wrote:

Hamsterhill wrote:

hey how long tull the end??? because i want to know if i have time to make a different entry or not...

Don't get me started....

I've said it once, I'll say it a thousand times. You have till the end of time to complete a challenge. The challenge is a challenge of your skills, not how fast you can churn something out.

That's fine... but there IS a deadline to be included in the voting!

penix1 · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 7:01 pm

Damascus wrote:

penix1 wrote:

Hamsterhill wrote:

hey how long tull the end??? because i want to know if i have time to make a different entry or not...

Don't get me started....

I've said it once, I'll say it a thousand times. You have till the end of time to complete a challenge. The challenge is a challenge of your skills, not how fast you can churn something out.

That's fine... but there IS a deadline to be included in the voting!

True...

However, you will see that I have extended the "deadline for voting"

penix1 wrote:

Dan, I am going to use the power of the super sekrit Director proxy and give folks here another week (which started yesterday when the server came back up). The server downtime and all that entails has people sidetracked. It was down for four days after all.

DarkStorm · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:24 pm

pinex1 wrote:

True... Razz However, you will see that I have extended the "deadline for voting"

Quote:

Dan, I am going to use the power of the super sekrit Director proxy and give folks here another week (which started yesterday when the server came back up). The server downtime and all that entails has people sidetracked. It was down for four days after all.

Damn missed that post! Will take some time to fine tune my entry then.

Hamsterhill · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:42 pm

yea i missed it too... yay extra time

Maray · **Posted:** Mon Sep 29, 2008 11:47 pm

Really cool effect Damascus!
Is there any projecting technique involved, like spot lamps?
Darth: Looks very interesting on the rotating Suzanne. Much more better. You have to tell me how you've made that laser scanning, please.

Or at least: Give me a hint.

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