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From: hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.graphics
Subject: Re: Todd Rundgren at Siggraph/JPL 3/12/91
Message-ID: <8026@crash.cts.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 15:46:31 GMT
References: <7989@crash.cts.com> <61813@masscomp.westford.ccur.com>
Organization: Crash TimeSharing, El Cajon, CA
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In article <61813@masscomp.westford.ccur.com> mark@calvin.westford.ccur.com (Mark Thompson) writes:
>In article <7989@crash.cts.com> hrlaser@crash.cts.com (Harv Laser) writes:
>>So he took an S-VHS camera and himself into a dark room at his
>>house and photographed himself eight times singing the song. The 
>>frames from the camera were then digitized and mapped, in LightWave,
>>onto the tumbling,rotating, and morphing 3D objects.  If you watch the
>>video VERY closely you'll notice that the animation is moving at 30fps
>>while the singing Todd face is doubled up from 15fps.
>
>So are you saying that there are only 8 different frames of Todd singing
>or that he made 8 complete videos of himself singing? If he made complete
>videos and didn't just capture single frames, do you know how he digitized
>the image sequences from the videos which were to be mapped into Lightwave?
>The method that comes to mind to me would be to play back the video on
>a good industrial or better VCR capable of good quality single frame playback
>and frame grab the images one at a time with the Toaster. This is very
>tedious though. Also, what did he do to sync the rendered images to the music?

Yes, he taped himself singing the song 8 separate times. Sorry for my
my cumbersome wording in my original post. He framegrabbed his image from
the S-VHS tape with the Toaster's software. Syncing the rendered images
to the music was another problem he encountered towards the end of the
process... he admitted he hadn't given it a lot of thought beforehand
and was quite lucky that it came out so perfectly synced since he hadn't
rendered any extra or spare Lightwave 3D frames. 




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