The Golden Idol said:
TMBTM said:
The Golden Idol said:
Looks good, but... a bit too CGI-ish, I think. Good work, but maybe something could be done for the CG to not look so clean?

You are right. It's difficult. I made a version with a shaky camera movement, I think it looks better. I also added an orange tint to the smoke bursting from the eye.

http://rapidshare.com/files/256940038/DISINTEGRATE_4.mpg

Still CGI-ish. But I think that's all I can do on this shot for now.

I think that's better, but you should take out the green lens flares, they scream CGI. Also, the background looks way too smooth and clean, as do the lights. Maybe it should be color-corrected to match the look of the originals? Otherwise, good job.

yeah, the lens flares maybe are a bit too eye catchy, I'd like to keep them, but bring the opacity down could be good indeed. It will be a quick shot anyway, so in the end of my shot where you can still see the lens flare spinning it will probably be cut.

About the background, it's a 3DSMAX scene so I can change it easily I'll see what I can do (for now I'm working on the disintegration/teleporation of other shots), but the original UFO walls of the movie are also quite clean and blurry and have changing colors from one shot to another (dark blue, bright orange and yellow...) so fr now I tried to make it quite simple indeed.

Thanks for the interest!