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After rendering a scene in Bryce from
a movie I wanted to present it in a unique and fitting way. I made
a frame for the image that looked much like a film frame but not a negative;-)
I knew I wanted to have the image stripped as if actual film stock but
how to get it to bend or warp?
Finally I hit on using KPT's RadWarp. |
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As in all of the MetaCreation/Kia tools the key to success is to play and experiment. What works on one image may not on another. I have tried to allow you to duplicate my steps and to play some with this fun tool/toy. |
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You can create your own
film strip or use the one I've created for this tutorial. The image
to the left links to the full sized strip. Just right click on the image
when it finishes loading and save it to your hard drive. You'll need to
hit your browser's back button to return.
I've found that the larger the image the longer it will take for the completion of the pixel warping. Some of mine are over 3800 pixels by 3800 pixels! So be patient, find the look you want, click the check mark and go brew a cup of tea. When you come back your image most likely will be finishing for you. The file I have supplied is at 25% of the size I used for the full sized example. It should be about instantaneous in the warping. Those of you with more RAM will not have this problem. I'm working with 64 RAM right now. For those of you like me, RAM poor, I work with just the strip. Not the image comprised of the layered strips. This uses less memory and my computer doesn't freeze up. I save them in the PSP format and just put the files together after refreshing my system. I got into this habit when I only had 28 MBs to work with.
The presents that come with the program show a square image being warped. Long strips need wiggle and twisting room so first you'll need to enlarge your image/canvas. I try to make mine a square and add some extra at the top and bottom for some flaring that sometimes occurs. |
| RadWarp warps
in two directions, "Alpha" and "Beta". These are along the X and y axis.
Remember those from math class?
You will find you can set the centers for both the X and Y axis in addition to rotate the imported image. |
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| Playing with
the rotation slider will make each setting's effect change a bit.
Remember the alpha and beta sliders change the amount of warping along
the x and y axis.
The x slider moves the center of the x axis and the same goes for the y slider. If you are a more hands on type, you have that option too. Just place your "hand" (curser) in the previewing screen and move the centers. They'll be shown by a + sign. |
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| The zip file contains my settings in a set for you to start with. They are ready for importing to your settings in RadWarp. You'll have to make a new Group called Film then add them into the new group one at a time. These settings are for the film strip image as it is given in this orientation. If you rotate it before taking it into KPT for warping you will need to adjust the corresponding centers. Personally I warp them this way. Then I rotate them if I need to after warping in RadWarp. Its easier for me that way. I still use the deform tool after some warps to squeeze the film flatter if needed. Such as the rolling downward from the top as in setting #3. I like the top to have more of a vanishing point look to it. | |||||||||||
