Videocracy Blog

I’m pleased with some progress I have made in my ability to animate in 3D…I’ve been using blender 3D for some time now…and I am doing a simple animation of a company logo flying in and landing, which will ultimately go on that companies website…

The logo has a metallic shine to it, which is no easy task…briefly touching on color theory, something like silver or gold is not necessarily a color, it’s a reaction to the environment surrounding it. Just as an example, when I was in my first art class in high school we were given the assignment to paint a chrome ball bearing…and I heard a fellow student ask “Where’s the silver paint.” Silver isn’t a color, in order to paint or create the effect of silver, and make the object look 3D, you would have to paint objects and images that reflect in the surface of the silver object.

And if you look closely at a silver object you will see a lot of little detail in there that you would never have noticed before…the objects on the table, the room around you…these elements create the illusion of silver…it’s the reflection, the light bouncing back that creates that look…

But what is color anyway but the amount of or lack of light hitting an object…

So one thing I forgot to mention that the only hope to end the confusion of the two formats is a combo player…

I just read this article that shows that Samsung is releasing their second generation combo player…for $599

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/patterson/11038

So if you are into tech related things you may have been following the war between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD, and at this point I find that it’s not worth getting too up in arms about…I mean which one is the better format? The cheapest? The most long lasting?

I’m listening to a podcast, and they are discussing some interesting things about archiving video…they are talking about how in order to archive a digital copy of a feature length film, costs upwards of 2000 dollars to archive the film, versus 500 dollars to transfer it to film and store it in a vault…

And they are also saying that film will live for 100 years, whereas the digital copy will only last 20-30 years…plus with the ever changing technology, we don’t even know if we are able to read these archives 20 years from now…

They also proposed that with the technology changing and now that we are moving to tapeless cameras, how are we going to preserve these digital files if they are not being backed up to tape initially…

With all the people scrambling to convert their 8mm films to digital…they are better off leaving them in 8mm, or at least hang on to them once they’ve been archived onto digital…

A few years ago, while I was in college we had a brief talk about the digital television change over…and initially we had talked about how we would be seeing an all digital signal by the end of 2007.