Platonic solids

Few days ago I came back from a mandatory university trip which took place in a small village located on the Baltic Sea coast. There all the students were given 2 different assignments which resulted in various installations and performances.

My group came up with an idea of using platonic solids as objects that are moved by wind. I really dig the geometry and contrast between nature and something so mathematical.

These pictures were made by my friend who was part of the group. If you want to see more of her stuff, check out her site.

I also put together a short video. It was quite hard to pick out useable footage but I somehow managed to make a decent clip.

 

I really like the whole concept and one day I'd like to make something alike, but more professionally so to say.

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Anyway, it looks like I'll have more free time on my hands during this semester. I'll do my best to catch up with all my old projects and bring this blog back to life. I know I've been repeating that over and over again but seriously I really want to. Stay tuned!

*drum roll*

So yeah, the movie is pretty much ready. I've rendered / compressed the final version and as always still found some minor flaws that can be fixed. The movie is alright as it is, but I want to polish those details. The video is a bit over 3 minutes long. Which might be too short for some people. But I put quality over quantity, and I'd rather make a short video that leaves the viewer wanting to see more (most likely will watch the video again), than a long video that might bore the viewer halfway through. Long videos require much more interesting content, which is quite hard to gather nowadays.

Anyway, I'm going back to polishing the video, I'll release it later today.

The Afterspray - summary

On 26th of August 2010, exactly a year ago, I released my last movie - The Afterspray. So far it's my most successful one. Let me give you guys some numbers. Over the past year it accumulated over 32000 views on youtube.com and over 18000 views on own3d.tv, that equals over 50000 views in total and counting.

The number of downloads isn't as big but considering that not everyone is collecting quake movies and, sadly, people tend to watch only the stream, which is totally not the same thing as watching it from your hdd, but almost 2000 downloads, which makes 5 downloads per day on average, is enough to make me happy. :)

The movie was posted on various sites in many languages and most of the comments were positive. There also was a little bit of constructive criticism and I'll use it while editing my current project, which, by the way, will be very different from afterspray, which I made thinking about making something that the community will like, this around time it'll be about using an original idea/theme for the movie that I thought it would be cool to work on.

Anyway, if you haven't seen The Afterspray yet, or you watched it a long time ago, it's a nice opportunity to watch it again :)

Daily update #3 :)

Unfortunately, today, due to lack of time, I wasn't able to do much. I started messing around with the video in the late evening and damn, I forgot that putting frags together was so much fun :) 

I only managed to lay down just a few frags but I really like what I've done so far.

Here's a new editor shot, you can see the 3 frags I've put together, the in-game sounds below the song, and the name tags above the frags :)

Tomorrow I'll continue on puttings frags together, also if I'll have enough time I'll make a transition between the intro bit and the frag part.

Next stage!

I'm done with demos. Today, I finally finished rendering lossless quality footage. My footage folder now contains 79 .avi files and uses 140 GB of my HDD. That's quite a lot, I'm not sure if I had this much for my previous projects. I won't use everything though, I think about 1/4 of those avi's won't make it to the final movie.

Few days ago I started working with photoshop, making name tags to be exact. It's a lot of fun :) I hope people will like them, there's a lot of variety, I don't want to follow one pattern.

A while ago I was thinking whether I'll use this movie for the current Tek9 contest or my next project. Now when there's about a month till the end of the contest, the question changes: Should I enter the contest with the IEM4 movie or should I withdraw. The worst thing about entering the tek9 contest would be the release, according to the rules I won't be able to upload the movie anywhere else before the voting/judging period is over.. which really sucks, because to download the movie, people would have to register at tek9 site. From experience (Zero) I know that people don't want to register at sites to vote/download.. I'll probably make a post at ESR and ask people if they would support me. 

Oh, btw I'm planning to post daily updates of my work on the vid. Stay tuned! :)

Happy new year 2010!

woho 2010!

AAaanyway, noghost mapping competition has come to an end. Results:

• -1st Place: Justin "StormShadow" Ingels with Devlilish
• -2nd Place: Tom "Phantazm11" Perryman with Substation11
• -3rd Place: Simon "Sock" O'Callaghan with Focal Point

More info on the official site

On a side note, a little birdie told me that some of the contest participants might have a chance to map for id! Great news =)

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I'm working a lot on the vid.. and there's not much time left =/ Well, it's over two weeks but I'm going back to uni on Sunday and I won't be able to work there. So basicly I have time till Sunday plus two weekends, where while the second weekend I'll have to render and upload the vid. meh
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My friend maverick showed me a site with great music. If you like dubstep or alternative electronic music this is a must www.getdarker.com