Simple test animation with "external" camera

[Miri]

It's just cartoon-style and bad lightning as I wasn't patient enough to create a realistic looking scene and in spite of that "Cliff" is a cartoon character anyway. So...
It's a test animation for using a non-Bishop3D camera within Bishop3D.
Just if someone might be interested:
Cliff's body is made of superellipsoids and spheres, his head includes a CSG of superellipsoids and cylinders, eyes are CGSs of spheres and lathes, his antennas are BPs (as I'd like to animate them a bit more) as well as his side fins are, his back fin is a CSG of prisms...
Cliff is a mixture of a crab, fish, shrimp and something else, I can't think of at the moment. ^^

Regards,
Miri

[deloresi]

What would be a Creative and Grand opening ideas for a Animation and visual effects training school? We are planning to open a advanced animation and visual effects school in india for beginners and proffesional, what will be the best and grand opening ideas.
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[SMcA]

What would be a Creative and Grand opening ideas for a Animation and visual effects training school? We are planning to open a advanced animation and visual effects school in india for beginners and proffesional, what will be the best and grand opening ideas.

Hi deloresi and welcome,
I think that this post would be more appropriate in “Off Topic”

Do you intend to use PovRay/Bishop3D?

In the PovRay newsgroups someone asked a similar question about content for a three week course. You could look and ask there.

http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3Cweb.4a5119bb227c1b3a7c859cee0%40news.povray.org%3E/

[gladysila]

How can I make basic animation appear on home videos? I've seen basic animation done on wedding videos or baby baptisms. Usually in the form a fairy or baby cupid flying around. It usually looks a bit cheap, but how is it done? Or how can I do any type of animation? I have a brand new Mac.
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[SMcA]

How can I make basic animation appear on home videos? I've seen basic animation done on wedding videos or baby baptisms. Usually in the form a fairy or baby cupid flying around. It usually looks a bit cheap, but how is it done? Or how can I do any type of animation? I have a brand new Mac.

Hi and welcome gladysila
What you want to do is not really a beginners project but it would be a good thing to aim for. I can think of a couple of ways to do it.
1. Firstly you would need to find some software that allowed you to mix video files. (I don’t know what software there is available for a Mac. In fact I didn’t know that Bishop3D would run on a Mac.) Then you would need to find or create the animation that you wanted to overlay using an alpha or transparency channel. Then use this fabled software and mix the videos. Or.
2. Find some software that could strip out the individual frames of your home video. Use these images as a backdrop (for instance map them onto a thin box) then create the objects that you want to superimpose in Bishop3D. You would need to step through the video images using the Raw Script plugin as you rendered you animation. Use an orthographic camera and don’t forget to use the no_shadow keyword.

See, not really very simple.
If you have not done any animations before I would suggest that you start off with a ball moving around another object. Then you could make the ball roll by rotating one of the axis’s parallel to the ground (use a texture that will show the rotation). From there you can progress to more complex animations.