Forum - Feedback - Extras!! - Messages http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Forum - Feedback - Extras!! - Messages en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Jitbit AspNetForum Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:48:09 GMT Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:48:09 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from Dylly edited by Dylly on 15/10/2011]]> Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:48:09 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from Dreeko ]]> Sat, 15 Oct 2011 20:16:27 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from mysto Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:17:44 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from Dreeko Sat, 15 Oct 2011 19:05:30 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from mysto
There are times when an automatic function would come in handy but for now I'm quite happy with doing things the "hard" way. ]]> Sat, 15 Oct 2011 18:58:33 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from Dreeko mysto wrote:
Dreeko wrote:
Yes folks, this feature has been a long requested one, but the main point of my post was to suggest the automated animation feature for extras and to see what the other Muvizu-ers thought of that?

If you have a scene in a bar for instance and you have two main characters in shot but behind you would like to see many extras chatting, laughing etc, at the moment we have to prepare and direct the animation for every single character.
A feature which could make a character/extra become automatically animated without direction throughout the scene would be an immense time saver.




I've already experienced having to animate every single "extra" in a bar scene and it was a fairly time consuming process. I would most definitely welcome an " automated animation feature for extras".


Yes poor old Mysto could have benefited greatly from this "extras" feature when animating garage band blues I'm sure!
edited by Dreeko on 15/10/2011]]> Sat, 15 Oct 2011 15:55:51 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from artpen let's hope it makes it in the next update.

Art]]> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:36:42 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from mysto Dreeko wrote:
Yes folks, this feature has been a long requested one, but the main point of my post was to suggest the automated animation feature for extras and to see what the other Muvizu-ers thought of that?

If you have a scene in a bar for instance and you have two main characters in shot but behind you would like to see many extras chatting, laughing etc, at the moment we have to prepare and direct the animation for every single character.
A feature which could make a character/extra become automatically animated without direction throughout the scene would be an immense time saver.


I've already experienced having to animate every single "extra" in a bar scene and it was a fairly time consuming process. I would most definitely welcome an " automated animation feature for extras".]]> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:36:01 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from Dreeko simonheffer wrote:
So to go with that would be a 'talking' action whereby the lips move without needing to sync with dialogue. Or maybe have unsynched-talk as a dialogue option.



Hopefully yes, that had occurred to me also

If you could prepare the character with the actions you wanted them to perform and they played them out randomly then if a character was cloned to create more extras then i imagine the random aspect would prevent them from performing the same actions at the same time.]]> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:22:32 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from simonheffer Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:15:08 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from Dreeko
If you have a scene in a bar for instance and you have two main characters in shot but behind you would like to see many extras chatting, laughing etc, at the moment we have to prepare and direct the animation for every single character.
A feature which could make a character/extra become automatically animated without direction throughout the scene would be an immense time saver.]]> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:09:23 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from artpen Think a static extra, or static puppet prop model will help with system memory
Slowdown...

I have seen what can be achieved with the transparent video texture by toon,
Wow, why don't we all help each other out here?

Why don't we, or anyone who has a poweful pc do a large crowd scene?
Do it with a chroma blue or green, whack it through Vegas to make it a transparent, upload it for everyone to use, yippeeee!!! Problem solved?

we could do this special effects, animated props, daz models, just about anything!!

I think this could work the same way Fx home have done it on their website.
If you look and log in to their website you will find lots of useful stuff with chroma
Backgrounds, props, animations ect...

So, to help us in the short term, I think this transparent video texture could be the key.........

Cheers, art
edited by artpen on 11/09/2011]]> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 19:04:41 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from mysto Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:44:11 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from Quoling Dreeko wrote:
This obviously would be even better if we could copy and past characters with their prepared actions included also.


This is the main thing for me - imagine just creating a character that does certain actions. saving and then when required copying into a new set...no setup, no prep, just copy and paste...great for crowds as well..]]> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:25:50 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from Dreeko
So here's an idea..

How about we have a mode for characters where we could make them an extra?
"What the hell are you gibbering on about now Dreeko?" I hear you cry.

Well Imagine you could prepare a characters actions as you do already but there was a tick box we could tick which would have that character perform all our chosen actions randomly throughout the scene without us having to direct the animation. With this in place we could just put them in place and let them get on with it and concentrate on animating the main characters.

This obviously would be even better if we could copy and past characters with their prepared actions included also.

So what do you all think of this one?

D]]> Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:30:26 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from Dreeko simonheffer wrote:
Come on - you know character movement is difficult at the best of times, let alone spending time getting extras to go the right place.


Im sure it won't always be as difficult ]]> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:02:42 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from simonheffer Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:28:17 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from Dreeko simonheffer wrote:
An extras generator. Two of your ubiquitous red boxes, placed off screen and randomly generated characters spawn and walk between the two boxes (one way or both). Good for street scenes.


Wouldn't it be easier just to add a character and move him around?
A crowd movement option would be nice though!
edited by Dreeko on 17/08/2011]]> Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:59:35 GMT http://www.muvizu.com/Forum/topic1233-extras.aspx Message from simonheffer Wed, 17 Aug 2011 14:11:43 GMT