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Tutorials
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Video Tutorials
Camera Mapping in 3dsMax
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04 Nov 2006ok, gang, here's my first video tutorial.
it's very unprofessional, and very long (1 hour, 11 minutes), and I had tons of problems with the audio. I ramble on pointlessly alot, but I wanted to show everything I did.
It covers my cheesy, crappy camera matching technique (all by eye), making (and cheating) geometry to match the picture, applying the mapping of the original still to all that geometry, and using Photoshop to quickly throw in some fixes so you can see a little bit more than what's in the actual picture.
And it's 259 Megs, a zipped AVI.
http://www.mackdadd.com/tutorials/Camer ... 3dsMax.zip
Here's the picture I use, if you want to download it as well.
http://www.mackdadd.com/tutorials/dirty_street.jpg
And this is the final result. This is NOT how it looks at the end of the tutorial. I took the rendered movie into AE and added a little handheld jiggle, a black frame around the edges, some specular glowing to the sky to give it some lightwrap and atmosphere, and some grain. None of those are major things (or what I was trying to show with the tutorial), but if anyone has questions about them, I'll make a supplementary tutorial on taking it that extra little bit.
http://www.mackdadd.com/tutorials/camer ... l_xtra.mov
Hope someone can get something out of it! I believe the same techniques will work in any other 3D program, as long as you know where all the equivalent tools are in your 3D program of choice.
And please feel free to give me ideas for more tutorials, if there's something you think I might know how to do and could share!
edit: April 24, 2010. Wow, this tutorial is 3.5 years old! Took down the old EXE file, replaced it with a ZIP file. -
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04 Nov 2006wow, a plug!
thanx!
got another tutorial coming in a second... -
04 Nov 2006Sweet, I use Maya, but i'm downloading anyway!
Btw, the ends result video link doesn't work for me -
04 Nov 2006fixed it Mike! thanks for pointing that out!
i accidentally copied it over twice, then deleted both of them, then had to wait an hour while my other tutorial uploaded.
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04 Nov 2006Other tutorial?!?!
Thanks Sean
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04 Nov 2006OMG - Hype that finished vid is stunning!!! So solid I had to double check myself and make sure I understood what was going on... that's 2D?!
Now... I will be honest and say that I probably won't be downloading the tut since 1) my internet is steam powered and 2) this teqnique is far from anything that is relevent to what I do... but I will be passing this gem over to some of my friends here that do FX and advertising.
Thanks a lot for doing this!
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06 Nov 2006Haha, so it's finally there I'm going to download it right now, probably not the time to watch the whole thing but I will soon!
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07 Nov 2006Man, it looks cool from the render, but yeah. I guess you're not really a Mac person now are you? .exe files. blasted .exe files.
I'll get it when I go home I supose.
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mahmoudnahmad 1,159 posts07 Nov 2006 -
17 Nov 2006looks really cool, downloading~~~~~~~~~
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mechis 520 posts22 Nov 2006Cool tute!
What do you do when you don't have obvious perspective lines like the buildings in a shot? For example, in your other photo, the field with the car, there don't seem to be any perspective lines.... What do you line up your ground to?
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23 Nov 2006i was using the car as line-up. there's enough perspective dimension in the car to get it close enough. and besides, the whole technique of camera mapping is a complete cheat (you're essentially cheating a whole environment!), so cheating an angle or perspective is fine, as long as it isn't noticable in your final render. maybe i'll do a quick version of it, and screen capture it. I won't record sound or explain anything, but you'll see basically how it could be done. would that be helpful? i could do that pretty quickly.
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mechis 520 posts24 Nov 2006That makes sense, Hype... I didn't think about using the car as your reference. Thanks!
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lomaany 1 posts30 Dec 2008I'm having problems to save an animation on 3D Max Studio 9. I can't save it as a video. I'm having problems to save an animation on 3D Max Studio 9. I can't save it as a video. Can someone help me or tell me where can I find a tutorial explaining how to render and save an animation into video? Please. Thanks in advance. -
jemi 37 posts17 Feb 2009Hey sean!
I was working on some camera mapping this weekend and decided I was sick of how annoying it can be. My main issue with the workflow in Max is that when you move an object to tweak the position, you have to re-pick the camera, which means going into the modifier stack and picking for every single object. Lame, huh! This can be a huge hassle, especially if you have to shift the camera around.
This script lets you pick a camera and reapply the camera map to all the objects you have selected. You can also do this by entire layers if you'd like.
Also, another really big thing is that this can lock the camera, so you cant accidently move it and totally screw up your mapping
Any feedback is appreciated, and I hope it helps you guys out.
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verankey 1 posts01 Aug 2009What camera is good and do you have any tips? I've been doing photography for about a year now and I have a Cannon digital camera.. Is this a good camera to use? And how can I get a good lighting and any useful tips to make my pictures more mind blowing or at least beautiful?
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Mr.Schploog 1 posts16 Apr 2010Hi there Hype, when I download your tutorial .exe file and it tries self extract I get the error "(1) Files could not be extracted". Can you please post this file again just as an avi or mov file?
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25 Apr 2010I reposted it as a zipped AVI file, and updated the original post.
Jemi, your script looks great, I need to give that a test run!
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