The Tale of the Computer-Generated Set
In Video Basics 2, the biggest challenge to our
ability to pull rabbits out of hats was Herb's request for a computer-generated set
incorporating real props. It was the last figure in the book, and also the last piece
still marked TK (to come) in our art list.
I had a photo of some chairs in a studio, but no idea where
to acquire the virtual background. The answer arrived one day in our mailbox. The
cover story of the National Association of Desktop Publishers Journal was
on 3-D graphics, and the illustration looked like it might be just what we were looking
for. I contacted the artist, Joseph Kelter, via e-mail at BadCat Design, Inc., and
explained my problem. After a few more rounds of electronic correspondence, we decided
that he could provide something within my limited budget by simply removing the arch
from the original scene and adding more floor tiles, then rerendering. He uploaded
the finished file to our FTP site, I grabbed it, and married the two images in Photoshop.
Voila!
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This page last updated on 10 January 2000.
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