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Subject: Less boring animation test -- Poser reflections


Little_Dragon ( ) posted Sun, 07 April 2002 at 8:16 AM ยท edited Mon, 13 April 2026 at 11:47 PM

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[Video clip](http://205.122.23.229/littledragon/SabMirror.mpg) (MPEG format, 758KB)

Same credits as before:
Music -- Chopin
Motion -- BVH file downloaded from LocoMotion Studios

This was rendered entirely in Poser with no postwork, and before you start singing, "They're cousins, identical cousins," let me tell you that there's only one figure in the scene.

I rendered the scene twice. For the first render, I positioned the camera behind the mirror. I fed the rendered video through an editor, flipped it horizontally to create a mirror-image, then imported it into Poser as background footage. I rotated the camera back in front of the mirror and positioned it so that the scene lined up with the mirror-image (the mirror is transparent, so I could see the background footage behind it). Then I rendered the sequence again, and Sabrina danced with her reflection.

It's still faster than raytracing. :)



davidm ( ) posted Sun, 07 April 2002 at 2:11 PM

Wow LD! VERY, VERY COOL! :-)) That character by the way is brilliant, reminds me of an Eric Schwartz creation from the halcyon days of the good ol' Amiga! In fact, I bet that's who she is! :-) Dave :-)


Little_Dragon ( ) posted Sun, 07 April 2002 at 4:44 PM

It is indeed Eric Schwartz's Sabrina. She's very much alive and kicking (and still using an Amiga); her comic strip is headed toward its sixth year online!

I'll render this sequence in a complete Poser environment (a dance studio with mirrored walls) later, with shadows enabled, etc. For the test, I just wanted to confirm that the process would work, so I used Current Document Settings for the quick renders (hence the ground shadows). But the wireframe reflection looked kind of cool, so I thought I'd share.



wolf359 ( ) posted Sun, 07 April 2002 at 5:20 PM

Clever indeed!!
thats what i like to see
people using their brains to find workable solutions
with their software instead of complaining about features that it does not have.

Good work LD :-)



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davidm ( ) posted Sun, 07 April 2002 at 5:39 PM

Almost six years at Sabrina-Online.com? WOW! Good to see Mr Schwartz still doin' his thing! I fondly remember a big stack of blue PD disks containing all those great Schwartz animations made with MovieSetter. :-) Can't wait to see the final version of your sequence, complete with mirrored walls! Brilliant! Dave :-)


DarkSkills ( ) posted Mon, 08 April 2002 at 8:31 AM

Nice job!

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