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#1 January 16, 2010, 12:32 pm
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Movie Rendered in AOI at Anderson Valley Film Festival
Some of you may remember some animations I posted earlier from a (then) incomplete film. The film, titled Imagination, is now finished and has been submitted to the Anderson Valley Film Festival. It has been accepted and will be shown at noon on 31 January at the Grange in Anderson Valley. (Anderson Valley is a rural area about 3 hours north of San Fransisco, CA.)
In the next few days the film should also be available online and as a DVD to purchase. Check gc-films.com for updates. UPDATE: due to various hosting/isp issues, the main website is not working use this link http://unicornschool.org/imagination/imagination360.avi instead. (divix, plays in VLC.)
About Imagination
Imagination is a 6 minute film animated in Art of Illusion. I did some post processing using custom Python scripts. Sound was added during a marathon recording session using Garage Band and an external mixer board.
Last edited by ecannon (January 19, 2010, 10:26 am)
check out the new renderfarm software at http://gc-films.com/renderfarm/! Version 0.3 now out.
Watch the movie rendered in AoI http://unicornschool.org/imagination/imagination360.avi!
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#2 January 16, 2010, 5:50 pm
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Re: Movie Rendered in AOI at Anderson Valley Film Festival
The DL didn´t work for me.
The highres AVI was broken and the site refused to let me dl the mov or not highres avi versions...
Hope I get to see the final movie then.
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#3 January 16, 2010, 8:51 pm
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Re: Movie Rendered in AOI at Anderson Valley Film Festival
sorry about that, I seem to be experiencing hosting/update issues. Hopefully these will be resolved in the next 24 hours.
check out the new renderfarm software at http://gc-films.com/renderfarm/! Version 0.3 now out.
Watch the movie rendered in AoI http://unicornschool.org/imagination/imagination360.avi!
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#4 January 19, 2010, 10:34 am
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Re: Movie Rendered in AOI at Anderson Valley Film Festival
An updated link is posted above to a 640x360 version.
check out the new renderfarm software at http://gc-films.com/renderfarm/! Version 0.3 now out.
Watch the movie rendered in AoI http://unicornschool.org/imagination/imagination360.avi!
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#5 January 19, 2010, 1:56 pm
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Re: Movie Rendered in AOI at Anderson Valley Film Festival
WoW!
I´m impressed - very niche story and nicely done with the voice of the kids.
Good job and for sure a nice experience.
I do like especially the train sequence - but other are fun to watch, too.
Now I remember what imagination is!
Thanks for sharing
Harald
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#6 January 19, 2010, 2:34 pm
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Re: Movie Rendered in AOI at Anderson Valley Film Festival
Enormous amount of work in there and sure worth it, every second!
I have heard, that one animator can produce in average about 15 seconds of animatable sourcefile in a working day. Just curious, but did you keep record of your hours on this one? 
...there's more to the picture than meets the eye...
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#7 January 19, 2010, 3:38 pm
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Re: Movie Rendered in AOI at Anderson Valley Film Festival
Working on and off it took me from the beginning of December 2008 to October 2009. I definitely spend a lot of hours, some days (weekends etc) I probably spent 8-10 hours. I did it by scenes. Some came together pretty easily, not much more than the modeling, others, especially the train in the mountains took weeks and weeks and weeks. On average this sounds about right. I didn't use poses at all in the film, if I had that might have taken longer. I also used a huge amount of scripting, don't know if that made it faster or slower.
check out the new renderfarm software at http://gc-films.com/renderfarm/! Version 0.3 now out.
Watch the movie rendered in AoI http://unicornschool.org/imagination/imagination360.avi!
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#8 January 20, 2010, 10:05 am
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Very nice! My favorite bits were when the top was touching down to the waves, and the battleship's explosions.
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#9 January 20, 2010, 3:16 pm
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Re: Movie Rendered in AOI at Anderson Valley Film Festival
I am particularly fond of both those scenes, and especially the photo/cg integration in the top scene.
check out the new renderfarm software at http://gc-films.com/renderfarm/! Version 0.3 now out.
Watch the movie rendered in AoI http://unicornschool.org/imagination/imagination360.avi!
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#10 January 21, 2010, 7:15 pm
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Excellent! Very impressive and a lot of work for one person. I liked the bit with the white portals best, and the fountain at the end, maybe because it is farthest away from reality. The spinning top was funny, the way it slid on the bridge wire and jumped on the water.
Thanks for showing it.
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#11 January 21, 2010, 8:15 pm
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Re: Movie Rendered in AOI at Anderson Valley Film Festival
Congratulations Edward! The team made a great work with the sound too. The child voice is really good, and so the music, and them together sounds just fine!
The water effects are something very good to see. I wish it could be seen in youtube or other server, because downloading 100mb is something i'm not amused to (for videos). I prefer the quick view 
I wonder what is the renderfarm software . My english is not as good as i wish, and i sometimes just can't comprehend the concepts. What is it, in few words?
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#12 January 21, 2010, 10:44 pm
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Re: Movie Rendered in AOI at Anderson Valley Film Festival
Because the film was so computationally intensive, and because I have (intermittent) access to a number of different computers, I wrote a series of python scripts and a startup script for AOI to manage renders across many machines. I don't think it saved much time, but the startup script in particular is interesting.
check out the new renderfarm software at http://gc-films.com/renderfarm/! Version 0.3 now out.
Watch the movie rendered in AoI http://unicornschool.org/imagination/imagination360.avi!
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#13 January 22, 2010, 3:01 pm
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Re: Movie Rendered in AOI at Anderson Valley Film Festival
Just wow - I really like it. The parts with the train are my favourites.
Good luck for the Anderson Valley Film Festival!
Kind regards
Siri
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