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# 3 16-03-2010 , 03:07 AM
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Hair's great

Hi Dave

How are you? The hair is great! I have a black man and a white man in this space scene (so they're wearing one of those Star Trek uniforms) and the objective is to do a short conversational dialogue between them. So minimal hair movements but some! The 2nd objective is to try to make the scene as photorealistic as possible. Both heads have quite a high polygon count (for the photorealism) plus the hair. I dunno whether to use nCloth for the uniform coz its just a head shot. I haven't done the blend shapes yet but I dread that given my low end PC. I'll be doing the blend shapes of both heads separately and then composite them. I've got separate mb meshes for teeth and eye and I just texture them differently for both heads.

One thing about the eyes - do I need to cut (a hole) in the eye slot of the head mesh and then insert the eye mesh or I just place the eye mesh half embedded and half extruded in the eye area of the head mesh ?

Here's a brief on the space scene (short clip) :

SCENE 01
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1. Intro fade into a remote, deserted, desolate northernmost space outpost (embedded into the mountains) in heavy snow blizzard / rain thunderstorm on an alien planet - the space base had been attacked by the enemy leaving few survivors

2. Flythrough a dark, desolate maze of caverns within the space outpost (very dark scene) with a couple of live wires and sparks fizzing here and there now and then. Metals clanging. Some destroyed equipments and some smoke in the background

3. Flythrough ends in a large cavern (used as a radio room). Closeup shot of an injured hand (of a radio controller officer) creeping up towards an SOS button of the radio transmittal controls (still works) and finally succeeds in pressing the SOS button which is overheard by a passing space ship

SCENE02
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1. A modern futuristic space vehicle (based on an Apache helicopter mb) (back on earh) hovers and lands vertically kicking up sand and dust.

2. Closeup of a woman's shapely thighs wearing high heels getting out of the helicopter and finally mid distance shot of the (sexy) woman getting out escorted by a few army gentlemen and
walks straight to base

SCENE03
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Space battle involving several single seater ships taking place just above a major O-ring space station

Would appreciate your comments on the Maya approach to take for the scenes above.

I'm using Movie Maker to do the wmv (STOIK then converts it to AVI and tmpenc then finally converts it to a small-sized mpg!)