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Posted by Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] on 10/05/46 11:51
I guess he never read to the bottom then to find out ;-P
Hey nice explanation `Nobody` BTW, quite interesting ideas.
Cheers - Neil
On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 10:11:39 +0200, "AmbrA" <ambra@bih.net.ba> wrote:
>Thanx for the breakdown ,but i was actually looking for the name of that
>thing, it looks cool to me and i think it would be a gret gift.
>Regards
>Niho
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>"nobody special" <msu1049321@aol.com> wrote in message
>news:1151376616.515679.115220@c74g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
>> I have seen this NIN video and while I am not a big fan of the band
>> ("closer" gave me nightmares and I didn't even see the unedited
>> version) it is very neat. It's been a while since I saw this last, so
>> I'm going from memory of viewing it.
>>
>> Without having the specifics from the production company, I can tell
>> you how it "might" be done. The pin frame and pins at least, and quite
>> possibly everything on the desk, are computer models. Though you could
>> composite the desk scenes from regular 2-d footage obtained from a
>> motion-control camera crane if you wanted to cut down on the animation
>> load.
>>
>> The footage of Trent screaming his lyrics was turned into data for
>> moving the pins around using a displacement map. How they derived the
>> map I don't know for sure, but he could have been mocapped
>> (motion-captured) by shooting him signing into a mirror while wearing a
>> lot of little dots on his face. The dots are tracked to derive motion
>> data to drive a 3-d scanned model of Trent's head. The motion data
>> drives the displacement map which drives the model of the pins as if a
>> guy was really pushing his face against it and there you go. They might
>> have skipped making a scanned model of his head and derived everything
>> from the mocap footage.
>>
>> You can cheat this effect a couple ways. One clever bit would be to
>> simply grayscale the Trent footage and use a variation of something
>> like the Adobe card dance plug-in in A.E. and the grayscale map to
>> animate variable pins. But to get the grayscale to work properly would
>> take soem extra manipulations first, and some tricky lighting to keep
>> showing the contours.
>>
>> If you were, say, spending a life sentence in prison with nothing but
>> time on your hands, you could stop-motion animate the pinboard by
>> looking at a composite of the footage and the pin board and manually
>> moving all the pins for each frame. At which point your condition would
>> tend to resemble Trent's:-)
>>
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