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<p>[QUOTE="messydesk, post: 2770044, member: 1765"]Are your lights fixed such that you can't move them around the coin? Keeping the coin stationary and moving the lights instead would make the alignment step unnecessary.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think the speed is too slow and the change in lighting from frame to frame is too large. Also, the jump from last frame to first is no good. You need to go forward and backward as you mention above, because that's how you look at the coin. Look at the coin in hand and move it around in the light to see the luster. How long does it take to get the coin back to the starting position. A second or two, probably. Time your animation the same way so that it simulates looking at it in hand. My script that composes these uses 200 msec per frame if I have 6 frames, and 50 msec if I have 15. For the 15-frame composition, I additionally dwell on the first and last frame for 100 msec rather than 50.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="messydesk, post: 2770044, member: 1765"]Are your lights fixed such that you can't move them around the coin? Keeping the coin stationary and moving the lights instead would make the alignment step unnecessary. I think the speed is too slow and the change in lighting from frame to frame is too large. Also, the jump from last frame to first is no good. You need to go forward and backward as you mention above, because that's how you look at the coin. Look at the coin in hand and move it around in the light to see the luster. How long does it take to get the coin back to the starting position. A second or two, probably. Time your animation the same way so that it simulates looking at it in hand. My script that composes these uses 200 msec per frame if I have 6 frames, and 50 msec if I have 15. For the 15-frame composition, I additionally dwell on the first and last frame for 100 msec rather than 50.[/QUOTE]
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