[Bf-committers] 80 minutes film needs coding help!

[Ton Roosendaal]

Hi,

Note for interested devs: video texture is working in the game engine,  
via ffmpg. You could check on the code there and see how to copy it.

> Remember that this is a very early work I'm showing you, so don't  
> get scared!! The final project will look nothing like this.

Well, a mockup or render that shows how it will look instead could  
help then :)
It's especially difficult to imagine how these drawings will behave as  
video, layered in 3d window, and without alpha?

-Ton-

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Ton Roosendaal  Blender Foundation   ton at blender.org    www.blender.org
Blender Institute   Entrepotdok 57A  1018AD Amsterdam   The Netherlands

On 10 Feb, 2010, at 16:06, Juan Pablo Bouza wrote:

> Hey! Here is jpbouza reporting in!
>
> With the fundings of the National Institute of cinematography  
> (INCAA) here in Argentina we are going to start making a feature  
> film entirely with Blender and Gimp.
>
> This film will consist on a series of short stories by Julio  
> Cortázar (a very renowned Argentinian writer). The idea is that the  
> film will be 2.5D. Basically it will be based on drawings and  
> paintings made by important Argentinian artists.
> So we are going to use Motion Graphics techniques with Blender. In  
> most cases, we will be using  cut out characters imported from  
> gimp's XCF files, and those layers will be placed as textures over  
> planes.
>
> Well, the feature that we are missing is to be able to see video or  
> image sequence textures in real time over those meshes in GLSL view.  
> In other words, this textures should refresh in real time when you  
> hit the PLAY button.
>
> Initially we were thinking on using Blender 2.49, but if you find  
> that this is easier to code in 2.5 go ahead.
>
> In case you are interested in coding this feature, here is a blend  
> file with a very rough test of the technique.
>
> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1716042/cronos.blend
>
> We are using this very clever script for importing xcf layers into  
> blender:
>
> http://alexvaqp.googlepages.com/xcf_layers_suite_en
>
> Here is an early preview of the project:
>
> http://vimeo.com/5655926
>
> Password: cronopios
>
> The first video is a short film I did 5 years ago (I did it on my  
> own, and it was one of the first serious things I ever did so it has  
> a lot of things that could be better). The idea is to re-make that  
> short film too.
> At the end of the video there are two previews of the early artwork  
> of two of the painters involved in the project.
>
> Here is a very badly encoded version of the first video with english  
> subtitles:
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEebDhSxncU
>
>
> Remember that this is a very early work I'm showing you, so don't  
> get scared!! The final project will look nothing like this.
>
>
> The project will be starting on March presumably, so there is more  
> than a month to code the feature.
>
> For those who are interested, just contact me at jpbouza at gmail or at  
> #blendercoders channel and we'll talk about deadlines, money, etc etc.
>
> See you!
>
>
> Juan Pablo Bouza
>
> www.jpbouza.com.ar
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