Sorenson 360 Cloud Computing for You

July 30th, 2010

Sorenson 360 is a member of our ‘cloud computing’ family that will soon take over the world and charge rent to Bill Gates.

What ‘cloud computing’ really is, Sorenson 360 is pretty cool, behind their acclaimed compression tool you do have a storage hub where you can share, review, access from all your sites -

nice mpeg4, use their skins

there’s even an SEO component to their 360 services … so you might want to check it out

waterflow

Cinema4D waterfall

July 29th, 2010

one of the fun things about animation is …. relationships intended to produce a certain ‘look and feel’ … a certain effect .. might work just fine for something completely different.

Using the cloth tag and some friction/gravity relationships you can create a pretty friendly waterfall with plane layers sliding off one another. Play with the timing, surround with a nice cartoon landscape, get some bright reflective material for your bubbly water surface and …

together they produce a nice starter for your wild paradise wonderland.

so ah … where were you last night ?

July 27th, 2010

Paul in Nashville

just think, you could’ve been in Nashville …..

and don’t worry about the sound quality either …. you’re back in the USSR

Cinema4D – Landscape primitive

July 26th, 2010

you can have a lot of fun with C4D landscape primitive. Creating a diverse landscape with definitions for ‘furrows’, sea level, plateau it is very helpful to begin to create your own landscape model.

Create material that portray your land realistically,

you can animate your land dimensions if you want to do a universe creation gig – very flexible and C4D has all the goodies to go with it. Pyrocluster will help you create your volcano, smoke, if you like trapcode it is very easy to migrate to AE and add more pyrotechnics there.
I wanted a mandala sun using some of the geometery in AE than mapping trapcode’s ‘Shine’ to my sun object’s positions with the simplest of expressions binding shine to our sun.

Try a little sorenson – squeeze … that is… don’t forget 360

July 17th, 2010

http://www.sorensonmedia.com

is pretty cool – we all need to squeeze these media monsters but

360 http://www.sorensonmedia.com/video-delivery-network/

is much more with their own world of skins, players, a review section to share, statistics, SEO, one stop shopping …. central satellite view …. wow … that’s a lot of alliteration …. but then again … SorensonSqueeze are one

playlist

another cube

July 11th, 2010

with a little timing, a  little more preview of these short animations, it was much easier to coordinate the faces,

and with a some marble columns, a little more Roman too. Pick the marble material from the Cinema4D library, or create your own if you like, map your movies to your cube faces, choose ’separate faces’ before you make your cube editable,

and you’re well  on you way to a simple way to let your 3D share multiple movies with your viewers

Cinema 4D video cube

July 10th, 2010

borrowed this from C4D Cafe  http://www.c4dcafe.com but it reminds me of the little glass boxes you pick up in souvenir shops when you were a kid. The fun part

is what you populate it with and how you tune your animation. Since most of mine come from the woods, my cube sports baby ducks, full moons, hummer, and water spiders. Pretty cool – your sister will love the water spiders

Cinema 4D makes this very easy importing an image, in this case a movie as your material luminance channel. Create a new material, ‘uncheck’ the default color channel, add luminance to radiate your image,

then play with the timing and mingling of your cube faces and their children.

1st Red ripe tomato before the 4th July

July 4th, 2010

good luck to get your first ripe tomato before 4th of July.

… and I feel pretty lucky this year

Clover

Clover Springfed

the Magician C4D

July 1st, 2010

I’m sure Anne won’t mind that I borrowed a few of her children ….

for the Magician

Honorable mention to Acoustica Mixcraft which I love so much I got copy for long lost friend for his birthday

sounds, sound effects, strings and a little help to get you started …..

for us non musicians … who love music

Clover and Sorenson

July 1st, 2010

I like cartoon to blend reality and have recently been using Sorenson. Squeeze mp4 over flv

we’ll see ~