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02-27-2007, 19:41 joysprod Joined on 08-24-2006 London Posts 35 Ventuz Introduction Movie Scene Hi, On the home page of your website you have a very good movie showing some of the features of Ventuz. I was wondering how I would go about achieving a similar effect to various effects in your video.. Namely, when some of the windows are shown with different content, duplicate copies appear behind these 'windows' with a reducing level of transparancy and scaled slightly larger. That seems relatively easy to achive with a modification of 'reflection', but when these windows move, there is a slight delay and lag in the positioning of the copies. I cant figure out how to do this in Ventuz, so was it done in post production or all in Ventuz? Regards Peter a wider window on the world    Report

03-01-2007, 10:02 Christian Schmidt Joined on 05-16-2005 Dubai, U.A.E. Posts 289 Re: Intro Movie Technique Hi Peter! The movie was entirely done in Ventuz. The window effect you mentioned is nothing special really. The movie is mapped on several rectangles, each with different scaling and transparency. The delay in the position of these copies is done in the Keyframe Animation. Since animating all those seperate windows would be too much work, I created a Container which includes the rectangles, the reflection and the entire IN/OUT animation of them. This resulted in a reusable node. No matter what image or movie texture I would place before this container, it would always be animated the same way. But explaining something like that is never the same as actually studying it for yourself. I planned to release this archive at a later state, but why wait. You can download the entire Ventuz Introduction sequence as a Ventuz archive from our FTP server. This is the download link: Ventuz Introduction Archive The file is 19MB in size. The scene is compatible with all Ventuz versions and does not use any Professional Edition nodes/functionality. The scene is designed only for 16:9 aspect ratios, so I recommend a project resolution of 1280x720. Since the scene has a lot of different aspects to it, I welcome anyone to ask questions about it. I will gladly explain how it was created. Chris    Report