After my far too lengthy exploration of Monkton & Sarre Mills in my last two posts, I decided it was time to get back to some movie making. Assuming that when finished my Smuggler’s Leap movie is going to be of somewhere between 5 – 10 minutes duration, will it hold attention for that length of time? […]
“Smuggler Bill Dashes round by the mill That stands near the road upon Monkton Hill” My searches of the internet for information about Monkton Hill, seemed to suggest that such a place exists in Chippenham, Wiltshire, but I could find no trace of it in Kent, except in references to the Smuggler’s Leap story in […]
When I started constructing this set, my terrain was a plain flat grass covered field. When I began adding houses, it looked a bit unnatural to have nice undamaged grass streets, so I decided some detailing needed to be added. I considered purchasing some cobbled streets and may still do so for some sets. The ready made ones […]
I decided that I will need to pepper my scenes with at least a village or two and the odd lone house for Smuggler Bill and Exciseman Gill to ride past. There are plenty of suitable buildings in the Google / Trimble 3D warehouse, but I decided to get started by buying an iClone content pack […]
I mentioned in my previous post that I needed some chalk cliff face to line my pit and cover my cliffs. Here are the steps I followed:- Opened Bitmap2Material program. The following sequence of actions is numbered as per the image above. 1. Dropped a jpg image of a section of chalk cliff face into the […]
I have not really been satisfied with some aspects of my terrain. In particular, while I was OK with the flat grass covered surface, I was not really satisfied with the vertical sides of the chalk pit, which appeared to be somewhat blurred. Although I don’t expect the sides of the chalk pit to feature […]
OK, so Bill is on his horse and ready to go. Gill is also on his second and final horse and ready to catch Bill. All I need now is the scenery for the action to take place in. Yes, I know, this means I will be shooting the end of the film before the […]
As mentioned in an earlier post, my first attempt to build Reculver was done entirely in iClone2 and did not take into account that in the early 18th century (early 1700s) that St. Mary’s would have been a complete church not just a couple of towers. I did some internet research and found a small […]
I wanted to try out the Trial version of Earth Sculptor before committing to buy it. The problem is that certainly at the time, there was no trial version of the iClone Earth Sculptor plug-in, so I had no way of knowing how terrains would look after they had been transferred into iClone. For the trial […]