nisus Posted October 9, 2002 Share Posted October 9, 2002 Hi All, Just wanted to add that it's always better to shoot any texture on an overcast days because your texture won't have additional lighting and shadows incorporated rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yz1 Posted May 29, 2003 Share Posted May 29, 2003 I too am in need of quality 2d people for my visualisations. Specifically people in gym/swuim wear and casually dressed "funky/cool" people (for lack of a better term). The collections i have seen with rpc, marlin and image cells dont appear to suit what i need. Anyone know of other good people resources? Any help appreciated as deadlines are looming. Thanks Andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyril Posted August 29, 2003 Share Posted August 29, 2003 Related to this topic. I might be needing sprite people for a project in the middle east. I remember seeing some people in the traditional Saudi headgear and robes. Would anyone know who sells this or if it is available? RPC, Archivision, and Marlin don't seem to have this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzy Posted September 9, 2003 Share Posted September 9, 2003 Hi everybody, I am also looking for some walking people or RPC. Here is my two cents.. I am thinking to set a bluescreen and shot my friends and create squences like marlin studios. My first try will be people just standing and reading or speaking or doing little motions.. I do have little experience in bluescreen, I think I can do it. Since I am still a student, I have hundreds of classmates to use in front of bluescreen My second idea is using ARCvision's RPC creator for stills so that I can use them in every angle. I will shot my friends in several angles and convert them to RPCs. I have no idea how the solution will be but I will try.. Here is the link for downloading RPC creator RPC creator If any of you tried one of those ideas , please share your exprerience. When I do myself, I will share it for download :angecool: If those ideas already thought elsewhere so sorry... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psyanide Posted September 11, 2003 Share Posted September 11, 2003 Probably the safest, most legal way, would be to create figures in poser and render them out. Take the resulting images and RPC them with the RPC creator. No model release forms required Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demo38 Posted September 22, 2003 Share Posted September 22, 2003 One thing that we've started doing to avoid the "that one is the same as that one???" is using silhouettes instead. We have Marlin's walking people, and we use the alpha channels without the color maps to get walking silhouettes that way... It seems to work well, you get the scale figures you need, without the distracting freak factor you get when people are in the 3d scenes... IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzy Posted January 25, 2004 Share Posted January 25, 2004 Hi, It took a long time to post this.Here my custom green screen solution for architectural animation. All of those people are my friends in the school. I did this to my advisor for a paper in a conferance. One of the undeleted shots. Animation 320x 240 Divx 5.1 (500 kb) Guess which is me ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzy Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 No one interested using himself & friends instead of RPC & marlin studio people ? Check the animation link above Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted January 29, 2004 Share Posted January 29, 2004 The animation is interesting. You do a very good job of keying in the figures without them looking out of place or having extra movement on their placement. Congrats for both. Getting people to pose and having the space and time to shoot this sort of stuff is the problem for me. It is easier to buy pre-packaged content than create it, most times. I also have avoided adding figures at all to my animation projects--gotten away with it so far, won't forever. I guess I'll face that when I must. But your results are encouraging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexg Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Very well done, muzzy! Planning to sell the sprites? :ngesmile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzy Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 Thanks for your nice comments. Actually, when we were starting to do green screen people research, idea was low-cost technique for architectural animations. All of us architects, not film studio owners. Before we started, we were thinking exactly same as Ernest Getting people to pose and having the space and time to shoot this sort of stuff is the problem for me. So we decided to go with the things that we have and not to spend too much money. We tried everything with simple stuff at a corner of our classroom. Green screen fabric is only 7 yard length & cost us 20 $ from Wallmart. We hang it as shown above posts. No worry about wrinkles.. Mini Dv camera is a Panasonic Mini DV camcorder 350$ probably most of us have this kind at home. All the people are our students and they only acted once or two. We didn't train them, they are my friends. In the first tries of editing, I had a lot of issues to delete green screen, but later tries & research gave us milage. The solution is working for DVD size animations ( 720X 486) I contunie my research by expending it along this line as a master thesis. Last thing , it is really fun to do. Thank you again for your critics & comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad Warner Posted January 30, 2004 Share Posted January 30, 2004 In the first tries of editing, I had a lot of issues to delete green screen, but later tries & research gave us milage. That would be my main concern-How did you end up getting the green out? Can you share your techniques (what software, etc)? -Chad Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gander0 Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 Discreet Combustion and Adobe After Effects have good keying (Removal of specific colors) effects, well i have only actually used After Effects and its very easy. I believe Abobe Premiere has this facility also. Obviously there are also more expensive film studio software. I believe the tricky bit is the lighting; first on your green/blue screen and also getting the light of the subject to match that of the environment. Gander Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muzzy Posted February 3, 2004 Share Posted February 3, 2004 In the first tries , I used Adobe premiere it didn't work for keying. I used Adobe After Affects 6.0 with keylight plug in which is Hollywood style keying plug in. It is free with After Affects 6.0 version. You can try Adobe Premiere but it is not working that good. I haven't tried ombustion. Room light is enough for most cases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomankubik Posted July 26, 2004 Share Posted July 26, 2004 hi I'm using people from http://www.got3d.com or http://www.animax.it...but I'm going make my own linrary from friends and family it will be absolutely free..so I will share with you also...but it will take me about month...to busy today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edub Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 One thing that we've started doing to avoid the "that one is the same as that one???" is using silhouettes instead. We have Marlin's walking people, and we use the alpha channels without the color maps to get walking silhouettes that way... It seems to work well, you get the scale figures you need, without the distracting freak factor you get when people are in the 3d scenes... IMO. Hello! I'm reviving this old thread because I'm looking for alternatives to Marlin Studios' "People N Motion". I've been using the alphas as silhouettes (as in the post above), but I'm limited to the few animated people in this, somewhat old, collection. Are there any newer animated sequences of people available anywhere? I'm on Mac/Cinema4D, so RPC is not an option for now. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiGMa Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 We are also looking for more people to use. We've got Marlins 'People N Motion' too but its limited in the variety of people. NiGMa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtutaj Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 maybe we should start a list of what types of people everyone is looking for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxlee Posted January 3, 2007 Share Posted January 3, 2007 I see there are avi animated people uploaded on Turbosquid: http://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/Index.cfm/ID/242607 I would like to know the difference in rendering speed between : avis, animated rpcs and marlin people. I also see pre-animated low poly people, but somehow do not like their cartooniness or would that somehow blend better with architecture? Would one use the avi sprite on a plane to always face the camera.That could take quite a bit of time to set up. In which case Marlin and 3d lowpoly is probably easier to set up. All of these has free downloadables so its probably better to download and compare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sopwith Posted January 7, 2008 Share Posted January 7, 2008 Hello guys, Anyone know of a place where you could buy individual Animated People Sprites (pref 2d image sequence or avi)? Not bundles with 70 loops for 300 buckaroonies. Any help or direction is very appreciated! -Sopwith Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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