Comments

JohnnyRoy wrote on 4/25/2004, 7:41 AM
Ben, I like the way you used 3D Motion to deform the shadow text and I’m a big fan of displacement and bump mapping noise textures. There is so much you can do with them and I don’t think most people have really appreciated it yet. I’m also not sure how many people realize that you can make perfect loops by splitting an event in the middle and swapping the two ends with a crossfade like you did. Perfect loops every time. There are a lot of good techniques in this veggie. Bravo. It looks great!

One suggestion: Add your personal information in the Properties (Alt-Enter) so that 6 months from now when we find this on our hard drive and can’t remember where we got it from all we have to do is check the properties and see its from you. ;-) I would also add the explanation from your post in the comments field. This helps us understand what each veg file is supposed to be teaching us. Thanks for sharing. I loved it.

~jr
Cheesehole wrote on 4/25/2004, 10:23 AM
Thanks jr - I took your advice and added a description to the Summary section. I also labelled the tracks so you can see the purpose of each track easily. Thanks for the feedback!

I feel like I've barely scratched the surface with this program.

Glowing Title Veggie
Glowing Title Screenshot


I was experimenting with the compositing hierarchy (lots of fun).

Pre-render the region and loop playback.  Looks best on a TV.



Noise Tex / Bump Map used for backdrop

3d Comp / Displacement used to simulate a rippling shadow.

Gradient used to mask shadow track. 

Overlap Cloned Events trick used for the seamless looping.

Text is cloned / Gaussian blurred for streak effect

Might be useful for looping DVD menus.
alfredsvideo wrote on 4/25/2004, 2:04 PM
Why do I get the message, "Unsupported Format", when I try to import your .veg file?
clearvu wrote on 4/25/2004, 5:31 PM
You probably just have to change the audio sample rate to 48,000
Cheesehole wrote on 4/25/2004, 8:30 PM
If you want to see something really whacked, modify the parameters of one of the noise generators (they are all linked so when you change one they all change)

Specifically, select the first keyframe and crank the "Max" setting down to .350 - you get some interesting looking artifacts in the patterns.

The cool thing about using the cloned media is you can mess around as much as you want with the settings and you still end up with a seamless loop - and the animated shadow displacement map will inherit the changes to the backdrop too.