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Sanctuary
- Thread starter Tisiphone
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The Call Of Nature
Saint (what else!)
What was the acting itself like?
Exactly which special effects were bad? Pyrotechnics, green-screen, computer-generated effects, sound, other?
(LOL sorry that I am so curious but someone from the crew is interested in the customers' opionions: http://www.facebook.com/SanctuarySeries#!/SanctuarySeries?v=wall )
The Call Of Nature
Saint (what else!)
just watched it online. I have to agree about the special effects. On the other hand, if they had made Bertha look more real, they'd propably have lost customers, considering how many people are arachnophobic.
The waves themselves aren't too bad but the patterns are wrong. Real waves start out as perfect rings, but due to the differences in the sea bed and coastline they quickly get out of that perfect shape and become irregular as everyone knws who has ever thrown a stone into a pond or river.
It seems to me that the prob is that the special effect guys spent their whole lives in front of a computer and didn't get enough real world to see.
The waves themselves aren't too bad but the patterns are wrong. Real waves start out as perfect rings, but due to the differences in the sea bed and coastline they quickly get out of that perfect shape and become irregular as everyone knws who has ever thrown a stone into a pond or river.
It seems to me that the prob is that the special effect guys spent their whole lives in front of a computer and didn't get enough real world to see.
Fuddlemiff
Is this real life?
When it comes to CGI, it's not just a matter of whether you know what something looks like, or how it moves or interacts with other objects, it's about how much detail you can afford to put in in terms of time and money. Considering Sanctuary has CG imagery in pretty much every scene, I wouldn't expect it to be very convincing looking. The artists are going to be very stretched for time and have a lot of pressure on them to keep costs down.
The Call Of Nature
Saint (what else!)
true, but all you'd have to do is apply 2 or 3 mandelbrot sets in a row. That's just a few lines in the programme and the effect is amazingly real. It's how they made the lava in Revenge of the Sith, for example: 5 Mandelbrot sets in different sizes copied into each other. That's far easier (and cheaper) than programming a fuzzy logic subroutine and much faster.
Fuddlemiff
Is this real life?
If you're making a reasonably flat body of water (or lava), then tinkering with some procedural displacement maps is indeed a very quick way of achieving some realistic looking liquid, at least from a distance. I've not seen the scene in question, but if we're talking about rough seas, then more sophisticated methods might be required. Something like RealFlow, or another particle system might be used to determine how the water interacts with a ship's hull, the shoreline, or other hard objects, and those take a lot of calculation and rendering time that a show like Sanctuary most likely can't afford.
CG artists make their living from recreating the real world, so they're actually very curious and attentive and tend to try to spend as much time away from the computer as possible.
CG artists make their living from recreating the real world, so they're actually very curious and attentive and tend to try to spend as much time away from the computer as possible.
The Call Of Nature
Saint (what else!)
I had a little chat with Jim Byrnes yesterday after a concert(hmm, actually today around 2 am LOL) and he mentioned he's in the current season of Sanctuary (though not in the same episodes as his friend Peter Wingfield). I think I'll become a regular viewer. =) The man is really charming and incredible nice.
The Call Of Nature
Saint (what else!)
argh! I totally forgot to try and make Mr Byrnes leak out a bit about the new plots! But I think he wouldn't have said anything anyway. The cast gets fined pretty heavily if they leak, from what I hear.