Simple guide to compositing and smoothing

#1

Jas

10 Frags – +

I prefer to keep my frag vids more frag orientated and less artsy but smooths are inevitable in trying to kill time, setup frags, show additional information. Although it can be hard in the source engine (since you don't have total control over how the engine moves the camera, you can only really create a few key frames) I try to keep some simple rules in mind in order to make sure my smooths are at least pleasing to the eye and a bit cinematic.

Here's some more advanced stuff that's used in the real movies

http://imgur.com/a/XrapY

http://imgur.com/a/97gdq#ISx0mHr

Here are the frag vids that I used as examples
http://vimeo.com/66836633

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drkrIeOpZGs

http://imgur.com/a/qSis8#0

I prefer to keep my frag vids more frag orientated and less artsy but smooths are inevitable in trying to kill time, setup frags, show additional information. Although it can be hard in the source engine (since you don't have total control over how the engine moves the camera, you can only really create a few key frames) I try to keep some simple rules in mind in order to make sure my smooths are at least pleasing to the eye and a bit cinematic.

Here's some more advanced stuff that's used in the real movies

http://imgur.com/a/XrapY

http://imgur.com/a/97gdq#ISx0mHr

Here are the frag vids that I used as examples
http://vimeo.com/66836633

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drkrIeOpZGs

#2

fsXD

-1 Frags – +

basically reddit posts

#3

Jas

0 Frags – +

fsXDbasically reddit posts

Hmm?

Yea those posts on reddit are what inspired me to look up some cinematography techniques that I tried to incorporate into frag movies that I've made. The rule of thirds however is pretty well known to any photographer.

The first album was something I made myself and have only posted here, also the two frag movies are both mine.

[quote=fsXD]basically reddit posts[/quote]
Hmm?

Yea those posts on reddit are what inspired me to look up some cinematography techniques that I tried to incorporate into frag movies that I've made. The rule of thirds however is pretty well known to any photographer.

The first album was something I made myself and have only posted here, also the two frag movies are both mine.

#4

dob

-1 Frags – +

interesting read, thank you!

#5

kirby

-3 Frags – +

Good stuff, although the frag video on YouTube that you linked has some pretty basic smooths. Those airshots, though, were beautiful @_@