Posted by AmbrA on 06/30/06 13:50

Actually i did read it all the way and as i said i was looking for the name
of the thing.
thank you guys,sorry to have bothered you.
All the best
Niho
"Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media]" <neil@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:8c33a29ai6p7gj93utokbmu6a55vj6tlp1@4ax.com...
> 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
> >
> >
> >"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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