New Video

I decided to go ahead and take the pictures I created in Poser associated with the Music Studio I built and weave it into a small story and create a Video. The video was created in powerpoint and has no animation. It is a series of about 80 shots I took in Poser interspersed with some slides that do a small bit of narration. I mixed it in with a Rough Cuts original song called "For the Last Time" that Ron Jones and I wrote and performed. I created the slide show in a couple of hours and loaded it up to You Tube.

The video is a tour of the Music Studio and then follows my virtual band doing a recording in the studio. The studio tour shows the Lobby, Hallway, Control Room and Studio. It has a number of scenes that take place in each of the rooms. I created a number of characters as part of this project. They included:
- Mojo - Guitarist
- Herb - Singer
- Rasta - Bass Player
- Vicki - Piano Player
- Ben - Conga Player
- Hiro - Drummer
- Rick - Organist
- Sydney - the Agent
- Simon - the Producer
- Aiko - Simon's Secretary
- Elvis - Executive Producer

I am sure you will see the characters again in the future in other scenes along with the musical equipment. What I noticed about the scenes when watching the video when it was done was how uneven the quality of the work was. A lot of this due to the learning curve I was coming down. I learned as time went on what made a better composition in terms of putting together a picture. You can do a lot with the lighting, camera angles, focus, etc within Poser. In fact it is a little on the daunting side in terms of the options.

Also, I learned a lot about how to pose figures, texture them, place them in scenes, fix problems associated with their movements (skin pokeouts, unnatural positions), etc. This was a very good learning experience and I look forward to my next projects. I have planned to do a scene of the musicians in a club setting playing next with animation instead of still "photos". It will mean another learning curve to come down, but, it should be fun. I also would like to do a video as part of a Christmas Video that would feature my Virtual Family including a grandson character.

But, first I am doing some upgrading of software and hardware. Rather than buy a new computer, I decided to upgrade my RAM to 8G, load a 64 bit operating system (Vista Home Premium) and also bought Poser Pro which has more power and options than the Standard Poser I am using today. This will hopefully help with the animation rendering which I have read about on the internet as a potential time drain, as well as, other challenges.

You can see the video on You Tube at:

http://www.youtube.com/user/mojoDallas
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