THRASH by Carl

I am very surprised this didn't go EP, this is extremely nice!

I can here Vlad saying no no to dark There will be an update through on Monday with away of controling the darkness and the age fade has been tweaked. Thanks guys

LOL oh Ron you cack me up .......... how do we get you onto that panel

I really liked your sample

I didn't want you to think I was ragging on your filter. My computer is the problem. I plan to get a new one after I get a little further along in my rendering/lighting education.

LOL no your right, it irratates me too. The original Thrash was rejected because of time [ 2.24 on my machine, 10 sec on Thrashes machine ] This stripped back version take 1.24 min on my machine, I always try and get them down to under a minute [ AO makes it hard ] but with all the new stuff I'm not sure what the drag is and how to speed up the filter more with out loosing the look

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Carl wrote: how to speed up the filter more with out loosing the look

Yeah, you would cry if you saw what I did to it.
I don't think ff should care any more if filters are slow or fast - some of ff's users have high-end equipment. Something like a speed rating would be nice. I mentioned this a long time ago but it went nowhere.

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Carl wrote: are they similar enough for easy cross learning

I'm going to try to pick it up as I go but it's a low priority - that could change as soon as I need it for something.
Haven't you done some flash related scripting? Does adobe have a scripting language that works with their entire creation(?) suite?

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Carl wrote: it's not really the final render time it's more the tweaking time

Exactly! it's unbearable.

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Carl wrote: your project

hmmm...
Hey, that reminds me. How is your project going?

Actually, things were going along fine until I stumbled on to this little thing called dynamics. Dynamics is a black hole that sucks you in with no chance of escape. The filter forge addiction pales by comparison. After I extricate myself from dynamics, I have tried and failed three times now, I will get back to work on my project.
Btw, my project has expanded in some areas but I have also decided to take a long-term approach to finish it. There are many things, just for the sake of practicality (food and stuff), that have to be done between now and when I get to really work on it.

Yes, but that's like saying filter forge is used for image processing - all its sexiness and awesomeness is lost. I’m at a loss to describe it.
Here are some demos done by Duncan Brinsmead, he actually wrote the current solver used in maya, not to mention paint effects - he's the man.

What did you do to it?

Hey Thrash ..... yeah it's quite amazing it hanging around the top, must have been a good idea