http://allbetsareoff.com/tutorials/rgtv-ep-21-creating-a-text-to-sand-transition

http://allbetsareoff.com/tutorials/rgtv-ep-23-peel-away-vortex-transition

I was working with a full production team (4 on set, 1 actor, 2 animators, 1 audio engineer, 1 VO artist, plus myself) – and a very limited budget. Clarity keeps you from spending extra money due to miscommunication.

But if you’re working with 10 professionals and they can use your 1 hour of prep work to do the same job that my 3 did for me, who am I to argue? All I can say is, it wouldn’t work for me.

Well I think we are just goning to have to agree to disagree,
I think that 3 hours to storyboard a 22 sec clip with five angles is way overboard,

Please consider; my mehod, only needs a cheap 720p SDcard videokamera, and since we dont care about the output quality, we can crop it how we like, eliminating the need to change the angle of the camera for most of the clips, scale, rotate, to fake camera moves (you get the point)

And later just adding some graphics like for instance the holo-interface, arrows or even a text “telling” what BG there is going to be, all of this in AE. No need for keying or BG replacement, just shoot against a neutral BG. All of this surely one hours work at the most.

Now please note that I would use YOUR method every time if it where for a client id like to impress, hands down, (maby id draw it by hand instead) but why go through all the troubble if YOU are the client?

PS: Well since you have acting skills youre aaaaall set when can we se them?

PS: You know I love you man, i’m not trying to pick a fight with you or anything, Ive been with you ever since you started at he holyCreativeCow, even bought some of your training DVDs
And some of your tips and tricks have saved my ass a lot of times during tight deadlines, so thank you!

Cheers

There’s more to a storyboard than just a person’s position or motion. Accounting for the 8 different camera shots and angles would have been very difficult. Also, with poser, I had complete control over the timing of it. If I had done it myself, I’d have to worry, in the moment, about my timing, facial expressions, the lighting (for clarity of image), the camera angles and the actual filming.

Furthermore, I would not be able to composite elements behind me (like the screen) unless I shot on green screen. Then I’d have to do a rough key. That means lighting good enough for a halfway decent key.

By the time I was done converting, keying and editing, that would be a full days work – probably more until I was satisfied. With Poser it took me less than 2 hours to render the stills (and note that they were all still images), and then arrange them in AE. Maybe an hour more to play with the timing.

And BTW – I actually have acting skills, thank you very much.