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Windows movie maker would work great if you are running windows, otherwise I'm sure I can find numerous free ones which would work.

...That still doesn't work on Linux. It seems to me that something that worked for everyone (As in run for everyone) would be the best solution.

Camera tracking, lighting, and color correction were off, some places more than others, (What program did you use to camera track, or did you just animate all the camera movements in Blender?) but for a first try I can say that you certainly put in a lot of effort. What version of Blender are you using? As a tip for next time, try lighting the objects in Blender as they would be lit in real life, (Position the light sources in the scene in the same places as they were placed in real life) and also try learning about lighting (I would start here, and then go here) so that you know how to light the real life and Blender scenes. You should also look into color correcting your real life footage, a lot of shots were overexposed. But like I said, overall, for a first try, very good.

What I find most annoying is that you are unwilling to learn. Photoshop/GIMP/whatever is incredibly easy, said bluntly it takes very little skill to do with them what you did with Vegas. That said, you probably just used filters in Vegas to achieve those effects, which doesn't take much skill either (Or for that matter any more skill than doing it in PS/GIMP). As for the actual pictures themselves, they're just cliché over-saturated filter effects. But that doesn't disturb me as much as what I talked about above.

Why couldn't the OP have promoted something that doesn't require Mac/Windows to run... :| OMGPop.com has "Draw my thing", which is the same thing just written in Flash.

Once I start something I always feel like I have to finish it well, and then there's always something that gets in the way.

I tried to do a little bit of manipulation on one of them, just gamma correction, an unsharp mask, hue/saturation, and curves. I decided I liked the orange and purple. The gamma is wrong here (It's darker than it should be) but I can't be bothered to correct it again.

There's something like this on OMGpop called "draw my thing", it uses flash. My brother got addicted to it, and I'm planning to do that too when I get my tablet.

Looks even better than the concept with the animations :thumbup: The slide show works really well. I kind of forgot about that Nintendo DS that you modeled, TBH I was a lot more impressed with it then. :razz: But I knew nothing about 3D then. How did you make that planet?

Yeah, kind of OT but have you seen the new UI? It's pretty sweet. This, really. I can play 700mb movies on my twelve year old laptop with it.

You do realise that VLC can do this as well, right? ;) But can VLC write video directly to the framebuffer so that you can watch movies without an X server? Mplayer is crazy powerful. Blender - Free/Open source 3D content editor that rivals the big names like 3DS Max, Maya, Houdini and Lightwave. You can model, render, animate, create games... http://blender.org

Not nearly as complex, but it still meant maintaining a shape.

Rune tips and OT were complex compared to this, that's what was hindering us.

Well it's really easy to do in Ubuntu, I've done it a few times (Just a few clicks after downloading an ISO), but I don't know about Mandriva. Found this article (First Google result for "make a mandriva live usb"), and it doesn't look hard at all. http://www.pendrivelinux.com/make-your-own-portable-mandriva-flash/

Hah. When it's -27C/-16.6F and you have to bike to school, the sun rises at nine and sets at three, and there's nothing to do outside, I'd say that it sucks pretty hard.

It's 27C/80F here and really really humid. I'm boiling. ...But I'm fine with it as winter is worse.

It works because it is a Non-Newtonian fluid. "In a Newtonian fluid, the relation between the shear stress and the strain rate is linear (and if one were to plot this relationship, it would pass through the origin), the constant of proportionality being the coefficient of viscosity. In a non-Newtonian fluid, the relation between the shear stress and the strain rate is nonlinear, and can even be time-dependent. Therefore a constant coefficient of viscosity cannot be defined." I.e. just because you hit it hard doesn't mean that your hand will go through, but hold it in your hand and it melts. (Of course this stuff is probably more stiff than that) Like cornstarch and water.

You know what I think we should do? Unite and color the entire ball brown. No letters, no stones. Just brown.

It is already optional.

Gedit (Or nano) and bash are good enough for me in most cases (Web design needs Firefox + Firebug however). E: This reminded me of Eclipse, I thought I might want to do some Java programming when I'm bored on the train tomorrow. So I searched for it. The results make me want to cry.

Personally I'm more of a debian based OS user, I tend to prefer Ubuntu/Debian/Mint and as a lot of packages (30k+) are compiled for Debian based systems it seems best to me. But Mandriva is fine too, and the package manager is really the only major difference. Booting from a flash drive really works the same as booting from a HDD. The only difference really is what you're booting from. It could work well that way, however unless you are looking to support Mandriva development I would buy a good flashdrive and make the live disk myself. If you choose to go with using a flashdrive for Linux though, there will be a difference in performance and I think that certain features might be disabled. (Hibernation and sleeping, I'm not sure though) On top of that if you accidentally take out the flash drive bad things could happen. Alternatively you could install it on your HDD, and, like you said, you would get a choice at startup. The downside of this is that you would want to make a partition for Linux at least 10GB.

There's no denying that the resulting spectacle will be interesting. I'm all for the idea of two movies, as I have yet to see a movie that is faithful to the book. But like Tacodude said, how are they going to do it now that they've dug themselves into a hole?

Yeah that would suck.

Sure. I sent it to you, if I'm not here feel free to spread it.

Yes, quite drastically. How to tell everyone though? Argh.