battle animation

[Legacy]

You can definitely tell they are new bridges, high poly count aswell by the looks of it.

~Jb06

JL Studios

Actually Mark's the stock bridge, strongly redone to our custom standards, mine is completely new, but it`s something to be discussed later.

Let's get back on topic, shall we?

[Nighthawk]

Actually Mark's the stock bridge, strongly redone to our custom standards, mine is completely new, but it`s something to be discussed later.

yours looks more canon than the stock one.
the XO and guest chair are where they are supposed to be.
as I said, I would do a better movie if I had time, but for starting it's ok, I think....

EDIT: playing around with lighting. I ALWAYS wanted to make a launching sequence myself........

[Nighthawk]

quick test of FX skillz 
surprisingly, I couldn't get the same thing in max 9. this is in max 3.
.bik format

[Nighthawk]

I ALWAYS wanted to make a launching sequence myself........

.... and I finally did it!.

once this is complete, converted and uploaded, it will go straight to BCFiles as intro mod. so stay tuned.

[Excal_Luke]

wow, looks amazing  :shock: well done!

[Creative Inc]

Hows the progress coming along on this?

[Adonis]

Nice work man, altho I do have one small suggestion. make the camera movement more hectic, expecially in the Defiant scenes. And you could also implement a la BSG battle scene typo camera movement too.

[Nighthawk]

Nice work man, altho I do have one small suggestion. make the camera movement more hectic, expecially in the Defiant scenes. And you could also implement a la BSG battle scene typo camera movement too.

tnx.
it's been a while since I made much progress in this. lately, it's on hold while I deal with work issues and school.
I never saw BSG, tho. what you mean by hectic?

[Excal_Luke]

I think he means that the camera should like be moving quickly, dashing from one scene to another, zooming in and out and stuff - to give a sense of speed, and everything dashing about etc..

BTW.. cant wait to see the final thing

[Nighthawk]

I think he means that the camera should like be moving quickly, dashing from one scene to another, zooming in and out and stuff - to give a sense of speed, and everything dashing about etc..

well, it actually does.
in fact, that's one of the reasons for the slow-down. I can't get a nice take for having to change the angles on every preview I do. every time I get a nice framing, a better one comes to my mind.
also, once I get to render a nice take, like that on the defiant, I find a nice effect to add and I have to re-render what I did, so..
I spent several nights watching DS9, TNG and TMP videos to learn how to frame takes.

BTW.. cant wait to see the final thing

so do I, LOL!!!

[Nighthawk]

*ahem*

 8)

[cordanilus]

Wow, that's excellent. You get a cookie sir.

[CaptainGMAN]

Wow, that's excellent. You get a cookie sir.

You can add my cookie to that.

[rengers]

have a cookie for that awsome piece of work

[Nighthawk]

oh, cookies has a tasties lolzorz 

had to remake the crew for the freakinthousandth time, but it's turning out fine this time.
and yes, I got rid of the annoyance. look how a nose lifting improves the looking. still not a top model, but much better than TG's, that's for sure.
 

[lint]

excellant work indeed,
i really appreciate a nice battle animation .
have another cookie!

[Nighthawk]

da shekshay ensign with a facelift, and an aproach to Miguel.
and I'm off to bed.


EDIT: Eureka.  8)  :shock:
test run of both morphing and dubbing

[Armondikov]

*ahem*

 8)

Quite sweet the ships look perfect. But I think you need to work on the lens flare at the beginning, it's slightly off and these things are fairly difficult to get right, starting staring into a star like that doesn't work unless you make it look like it's really bright and whites out the camera for a bit.

[Nighthawk]

Quite sweet the ships look perfect. But I think you need to work on the lens flare at the beginning, it's slightly off and these things are fairly difficult to get right, starting staring into a star like that doesn't work unless you make it look like it's really bright and whites out the camera for a bit.

I'll be putting a fade from black in the beginning, most to cover that part with the image steady
I did what you say the first time I made this, but couldn't get it right, it looked cartoonish.
maybe I can make the fading, then make the star appear from the right and continue the scrolling as it is now, so the whiting would last one or two seconds

[Billz]

oh, cookies has a tasties lolzorz 

had to remake the crew for the freakinthousandth time, but it's turning out fine this time.
and yes, I got rid of the annoyance. look how a nose lifting improves the looking. still not a top model, but much better than TG's, that's for sure.
 

Saffi now looks like Dr Mossman. (Half-Life 2)


But very good so far.