First Equine Video Logo
This is the last frame of an animation done in Lightwave for
the tape titles done by Equine Video. In the animation the
two words start from a position behind the viewer. The
words enter the view on their side at the top of the screen
something like the Star Destroyer at the beginning of Star Wars.
When the letters are just short of their ending position they rotate
to face the viewer.
I didn't really like this animation. I hadn't learned spline
control of movement yet, so the letters stopped on a dime
as if they has crashed into a wall.
I don't recall if the letters are a font turned into an object
by Lightwave directly or if it was first done in Pixel 3D and then
moved to Lightwave, or if it was a 3D object font I have for
Imagine that was then converted to a Lightwave object by InterChange.
(gee, half of the software I just mentioned is from companies that
haven't existed in years.)
The background is a screen grab Lynn did of tree bark from the back yard.
She was using a full screen version of it as backgrounds for various
graphcs and text pages. I used a copy of the picture, processed,
cropped, and tinted it in Art Department Professional. I used
ToasterPaint to add bevels and tile the image for the backgound.
The animation images were rendered to the hard drive and then I wrote an Arexx
script that uses the Art Department Professional to load each image
into the Toaster frame buffer and then the script talks to the
Sanyo GVRS-950 single-frame editing deck to write the frame out to video
tape.
Second Equine Video Logo
This is the last frame of an animation done in Lightwave for
the tape titles done by Equine Video. This is similar to
the first version, but much improved. In this animation the
two words start from a position behind the viewer. The word
"VIDEO" starts below the camera's view, moving on its side
toward its destination. The letters are VERY close to the
viewer, so the illusion of something huge is very evident.
At the same time the letters in "EQUINE" each begin flying from
above and behind the viewer, entering the picture at the top.
The letters are staggered in time and fly their own paths toward
their destinations. The first "E" starts from the right instead of
left side of the view. The last "E" starts from the left side with
the other letters interspersed across the screen, so each letter also
travels diagonally across the view toward their destinations.
Each letter rotates to a readable position when it arrives. Because they
are staggered, they arrive one after each other, "E", "Q",
"U", "I", "N", "E". Just after the last "E" arrives the word "VIDEO"
finally reaches its position and rotates to a readable position.
I like this animation a lot more. We bought a much better rock music
soundtrack (courtesy of Music Bakery) for this one and the animation
is timed so that the word "VIDEO" stopped its movement on the last
chord. I had finally learned (or at least become aware of) Lightwave's
spline controls for animation, so the letters' motion is smoother and
they stop gracefully.
The letters are the same objects used for the first animation, but
with brushed stainless steel attributes instead of gold metal
attributes.
The background is a piece of art I built and rendered in Imagine a
year or so earlier (1991 or 1992). There are a number of
evenly-spaced, diagonal cylinders with steel/chrome attributes laid
on a flat plane. The flat plane has several swirling textures
applied to it. A software author contacted me about using some of
my freebie pictures in the public domain (including this one) as
backdrops for a game he was writing. I said OK, but I haven't
heard squat about the game since then (1994?).
The animation images were rendered to the hard drive and then I wrote an Arexx
script that uses the Art Department Professional to load each image
into the Toaster frame buffer and then the script talks to the
Sanyo GVRS-950 single-frame editing deck to write the frame out to video
tape.
Horizon's Photo/Image processing
This is just a bit of photo mangling done in ToasterPaint.
Lynn was working on a project for a horse called Horizjon
(yes, the "j" is not a typo.) I had some time and played
around with pictures of the horse.
Realize that much of the image work that is done automagically
by so many paint programs today was done in this picture
entirely by hand: Making a beveled frame. Doing a drop shadow
of the frame. Clearing away the
background from a still frame shot of the horse, so that the
horse could be picked up as a brush. Cutting out the horse
to use as a brush. Applying a shadow for the horse, etc.
The pebbly-stucco background was a freebie from the public
domain. The picture of clouds came with some graphics
software we bought, but I don't remember which one. I think
the wood for the picture frame is the wood texture
included with the Toaster for use in Lightwave.
Tampa Equestrian Center 3D Rendering
This was a 3D rendering done in Imagine to support Lynn's
video work of a horse show at the Tampa Equestrian Center.
She didn't like it very much, calling it the "Stirrup Urn",
but it's all I had time for, because she needed it ASAP to
go at the beginning of her master edit tape for the project.
The "urn" has some bump maps applied to make a subtle
medallion shape to the front face. It looked much more boring
without it. The ground is a couple of layered Essence
textures -- one texture supplies the raised surface
for the colored tiles and the sunken lines for the grout
and the other texture provides the green marbled image for the
raised part of the tiles.
The text came from a newer font collection for
Imagine. The letters are already fully extruded, but they are
separate objects, so I still had to place everything by hand.
I wasn't thinking very much when I made the text for the
dates a green color. When this was dubbed to video tape the
date is almost lost in the green floor tiles. At least I paid
some attention to shading -- the date letters are tilted a little
relative to the light source in order to
provide more interesting light and dark shading on the letters.
The "sky" is a background image of a gradient fill done
in the Art Department Professional.
If you look at the reflections in the urn you can see some stuff
I added to the environment, so that the reflective surfaces had
at least a little something other than sky and ground to
reflect. The big billboards behind the camera supplying reflection
details for the urn are also textured with various gradient fill
images done in the Art Department Professional.
After rendering the image I used ToasterPaint to manually retouch the
horizon to make a blurry (and more realistic) horizon line.
Tampa Equestrian Center Logo 3D Rendering
This is another image done for Lynn's work at Tampa Equestrian Center
horse shows. This is the TEC logo done in 3D.
This began as a frame grab of the TEC logo painted on the side of one
of their barns. The frame grab was converted to black and white line
art (Art Department Professional).
First Prize Graphics
Fourth Prize Graphics
Rosie Photo Processing BEFORE
Rosie Photo Processing AFTER
Trotter Photo Processing BEFORE
Trotter Photo Processing AFTER
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