Lin Evans Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 Just messing around - bored, I suppose - LOLhttp://www.lin-evans.net/p2e/helicopter.zipLin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LumenLux Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Good grief Lin - I must apologize! I think I deleted the other copy of your post at the very same moment you deleted the other copy. I'm sorry. Please re-post and I will keep my clumsiness away from it. (And I do already have a comment on helicopter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LumenLux Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 To quote a famous PTE user "LOL" !WOW is again the operative word for your animation. Watching the chopper I was thinking it was perfect except that the grass ought to move. Then whoa, you do "move" the grass. I should have known. I think it does bring up an interesting thought though - As we use animation to imitate movement in a real scene - Does the fact that we use some minor animation cause the viewer to require or expect more? I think it once again comes back to the author needing to decide what he is trying to accomplish in any given instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lin Evans Posted March 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 That's a good question. I think sometimes it definitely does raise expectations and sometimes it's not feasible to do a really good simulation of reality. I think that's why animated movies often don't try to do more than "simulate" a modicum of reallity - just enough to let our imagination do the rest. For example, moving the grass in a realistic manner "can" be done, but I didn't do it. It would take far too many resources and too much time to do it correctly - at least as far as I know how to do it. So sometimes the animator would be smart not to use certain backdrops, etc., It would have been far easier to land the helicopter on a rocky mountain top and perhaps just stir up some dust - but not having a suitable image handy made me lazy and I settled for less than good... But it did give me something to play with this afternoon while dreaming of what beta 9 might bring!!Best regards,LinTo quote a famous PTE user "LOL" !WOW is again the operative word for your animation. Watching the chopper I was thinking it was perfect except that the grass ought to move. Then whoa, you do "move" the grass. I should have known. I think it does bring up an interesting thought though - As we use animation to imitate movement in a real scene - Does the fact that we use some minor animation cause the viewer to require or expect more? I think it once again comes back to the author needing to decide what he is trying to accomplish in any given instance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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