I remember seeing the saber construction in the ROTJ novelization as a kid thinking it was a cool bit, but in the flow of the film it makes no sense. I can see why it was cut, or more likely why it was newly created.
If this had been in the film you would have the "big moment" of Vader informing his welcoming party the Emperor is coming to check on the Death Star 2 construction. Big fanfare music. Then Vader goes downstairs "Luke... Luke... Join the Dark Side...."
ending the scene on a much weaker note. After all, Vader says almost nothing but "Join the dark side" during the final act, so this is redundant.
Then we see Luke setting a plan in motion that undermines the tension when hologram Luke offers the droids as a gift, now that we have foreknowledge that he built a saber (as presumably gave it to the droids).
I wonder if this is an actual deleted scene or something new to build hype and sell Blu-Rays.
After all, Vader in a hallway that could have been built on a shoestring. I've seen bigger shots done for SW fan films. A possible outtake of him on an elevator, followed by an alternate take of him in his meditation chamber. Wipe to a very cloaked Luke, where we only see a hint of his face. Since we barely see his face and he never changes expression it could be Hamill's face digitally painted over a stand-in. The cave is nothing but shadow. The entrance, exterior, and C3PO could all be a digital composite.
My gut tells me this is more 2010 than 1982.
Exactly. It's like complaining that the Violin is difficult to learn.
People get results out of a tool based on the effort they're willing to put into it.
"...It's about time we get some competition, but especially it's time someone makes a 3d program the average slashdot reader can understand and use."
Ton Rosendahl
I personally cannot wait for Blender to become simple enough for noobs everywhere to start rendering pictures of spheres. The 3d world can never have enough "first renders".
Cluestick: Add a light and a camera, or your render will be black. Bonus points if you actually aim your camera at the object to be rendered.
The story submitter (gmueckl) also happenes to be the author of another peice of software (Moonlight 3d). He doesn't state this fact anywhere is the story, which in any other field of writing would be a serious breach of ethics.
Perhaps he's hoping to drive traffic to his empty user forum which has all of 20 posts.
Gmueckl can say anything he wants about Blender, but he should do so with full discosure. I think this story should be amended to reflects the bias of the story submitter.
I have suggested to my friend who helps runs the local LUG that we organize a BBQ/Installfest to coincide with the "final nail" for SCO. It looks like that will be March. I wanted to pass this idea along, so other LUGs might do the same. Bring along and burn any Caldera or SCO stuff, and cook some ribs too!
I use gtkpod for my music management, and GPixPod when I want to throw some photos on my pod. Rythmbox for the occasional podcast.
I like Rockbox. The quality of playback and the crossfading is nice. Volume can go higher than apple will allow using Rockbox. Themes are nice too. I don't like how it alphabetizes the track listings of an album. There's no simple way to make playback follow the ID3 track order. No video support either, so I dual boot my ipod between standard firmware and Rockbox quite a bit.
From the outset the 'look' of Elephant Dream and the creative process were given higher priority than the story telling. It is a movie by first time movie makers.
As such, it's visually amazing for a shoestring budget and small team that produced it. And every visual in the movie was created with Free software. That was the main point, Emo.
Or a piano? Why can't you make music with just hitting one or two keys? Oh yeah, there is such a musical instrament. It's called a radio.
Building 3d models is work. I spend months on mine. If you want to download a Tie Fighter and hit the 'render' button and pretend you 'know 3d', whatever.
The software isn't the problem. Your expectations of how easy/difficult 3d work is off the mark.
Yes it is a great interface. It takes practice, like anything worth learning. I have used blender to build two projects (works in progress) Superman and female mesh.
Open source program
open source docs
open development comunity
People need to stop bashing Blender. It's one of Open sources big success stories.
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I remember seeing the saber construction in the ROTJ novelization as a kid thinking it was a cool bit, but in the flow of the film it makes no sense. I can see why it was cut, or more likely why it was newly created. If this had been in the film you would have the "big moment" of Vader informing his welcoming party the Emperor is coming to check on the Death Star 2 construction. Big fanfare music. Then Vader goes downstairs "Luke... Luke... Join the Dark Side...." ending the scene on a much weaker note. After all, Vader says almost nothing but "Join the dark side" during the final act, so this is redundant. Then we see Luke setting a plan in motion that undermines the tension when hologram Luke offers the droids as a gift, now that we have foreknowledge that he built a saber (as presumably gave it to the droids). I wonder if this is an actual deleted scene or something new to build hype and sell Blu-Rays. After all, Vader in a hallway that could have been built on a shoestring. I've seen bigger shots done for SW fan films. A possible outtake of him on an elevator, followed by an alternate take of him in his meditation chamber. Wipe to a very cloaked Luke, where we only see a hint of his face. Since we barely see his face and he never changes expression it could be Hamill's face digitally painted over a stand-in. The cave is nothing but shadow. The entrance, exterior, and C3PO could all be a digital composite. My gut tells me this is more 2010 than 1982.
Exactly. It's like complaining that the Violin is difficult to learn. People get results out of a tool based on the effort they're willing to put into it.
"...It's about time we get some competition, but especially it's time someone makes a 3d program the average slashdot reader can understand and use." Ton Rosendahl I personally cannot wait for Blender to become simple enough for noobs everywhere to start rendering pictures of spheres. The 3d world can never have enough "first renders". Cluestick: Add a light and a camera, or your render will be black. Bonus points if you actually aim your camera at the object to be rendered.
Perhaps he's hoping to drive traffic to his empty user forum which has all of 20 posts.
Gmueckl can say anything he wants about Blender, but he should do so with full discosure. I think this story should be amended to reflects the bias of the story submitter.
I have suggested to my friend who helps runs the local LUG that we organize a BBQ/Installfest to coincide with the "final nail" for SCO. It looks like that will be March. I wanted to pass this idea along, so other LUGs might do the same. Bring along and burn any Caldera or SCO stuff, and cook some ribs too!
These settings have worked well for me.
fullscreen video:
ffmpeg -vcodec xvid -b 300 -bufsize 4096 -g 300 -acodec aac -ab 96 -i input.mpeg -s 320x240 -aspect 4:3 output.mp4
Widescreen (such as a DVD source):
ffmpeg -vcodec xvid -b 300 -bufsize 4096 -g 300 -acodec aac -ab 96 -i input.mpeg -s 320x190 -aspect 4:3 output.mp4
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I use gtkpod for my music management, and GPixPod when I want to throw some photos on my pod. Rythmbox for the occasional podcast.
I like Rockbox. The quality of playback and the crossfading is nice. Volume can go higher than apple will allow using Rockbox. Themes are nice too. I don't like how it alphabetizes the track listings of an album. There's no simple way to make playback follow the ID3 track order. No video support either, so I dual boot my ipod between standard firmware and Rockbox quite a bit.
Fuck the Zune.
From the outset the 'look' of Elephant Dream and the creative process were given higher priority than the story telling. It is a movie by first time movie makers.
As such, it's visually amazing for a shoestring budget and small team that produced it. And every visual in the movie was created with Free software. That was the main point, Emo.
Or a piano? Why can't you make music with just hitting one or two keys? Oh yeah, there is such a musical instrament. It's called a radio.
Building 3d models is work. I spend months on mine. If you want to download a Tie Fighter and hit the 'render' button and pretend you 'know 3d', whatever.
The software isn't the problem. Your expectations of how easy/difficult 3d work is off the mark.
Yes it is a great interface. It takes practice, like anything worth learning. I have used blender to build two projects (works in progress) Superman and female mesh. Open source program open source docs open development comunity People need to stop bashing Blender. It's one of Open sources big success stories.