Le Thé Chez Vierotchka

Depuis quelques mois, j'utilise DAZstudio pour créer des personnages et leur donner des visages, des expressions, des positions corporelles. Ensuite, je les incorpore dans Bryce pour leur donner un entourage à ma manière. J'ai aussi trouvé un site sur lequel on peut télécharger des images auxquelles il ajoute un effet de reflet dans l'eau. Voici donc une parmi les nombreuses images que j'ai créées de cette manière.

This is my third 3D animation. Voici ma troisième animation 3D.























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This is my second Bryce 5 3D animation. It took a lot of work and two sleepless nights... Creating the animation to get the results I had visualized took a few hours, rendering the one-minute animation to video took my computer sixteen hours... Editing it, finding the right music, fitting the video to the music and making it (more or less) synchronized with the music, then rendering it into a format that doesn't distort it took a whole day and half the night. More than 48 hours of almost non-stop work! I really need a new computer, a supercomputer (64 bits processor is my dream) with a gigantic amount of storage space, so that I don't have to wait for sixteen hours just to render a minute's worth of simple animation - each frame took a bit less than a minute to render, but some of my pictures which I would love to animate take much longer to render, and there are 30 frames per second, so if I were to make some of the animations I have in mind, it would take my computer over a week to render them to video, if not longer... Unfortunately, even a new and ordinary computer that is more powerful than my old machine is beyond my very modest income, especially as we now are two living on it.

Ah well, I will have to continue being patient and terribly frustrated (while my computer slaves away to render my animations to video, I can't use it for anything else, so I cannot continue creating all those pictures and animations which I have in mind, nor can I connect to the web), and the limitations of my old computer allow me to make only very short and very simple animations. It is always very painful for an artist not to have access to the materials he or she needs to fully express himself or herself, to fully allow his or her talent to blossom and skills to grow. But enough of my sob-story, I hope you enjoy my little beginner's creation!

The music is "Relax Your Soul A Second" by Epping/Reiter, from http://www.apmmusic.com























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While you are playing the video, the rest of your monitor screen might go dark or even black. This is normal, it is a feature of DivX to make viewing of videos more pleasant without anything else on your monitor to distract the eye.

Until I watched Freetutorials' video on Bryce animation on March 28 and 29 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WYg1swDORI - I had been completely intimidated by the animation functions in Bryce - and reading user's manuals makes my mind go completely blank... So, after watching that video carfully several times, I gave it a go, and here is the result. I looped it several times to make it fit the length of the music file.

Royalty-free music: "Guitar Musette" by Angelo Debarre, licenced from APM music - http://www.apmmusic.com























Requires DivX to be installed - you can get it free from here: http://tinyurl.com/2zuxrs

While you are playing the video, the rest of your monitor screen might go dark or even black. This is normal, it is a feature of DivX to make viewing of videos more pleasant without anything else on your monitor to distract the eye.

Tony est un ami et guitariste hors-pair que j'ai connu dans les années soixante. Mes nombreux voyages et longues absences de la Suisse ont fait que je ne l'ai plus revu pendant des décennies. C'est avec joie que je l'ai retrouvé récemment lors d'une répétition avec Dario et ses musiciens, et rencontré sa merveilleuse épouse. Il est venu remplacer un guitariste absent au dernier moment. C'est le guitariste aux cheveux blancs.

Tony is a friend and remarkable guitarist with whom I used to hang out in the sixties. My many travels and long absences from Switzerland resulted in my not seeing him for decades. It was with great joy that I met him again recently when he was rehearsing and jamming with Dario's musicians, and I also had the great pleasure of meeting his lovely wife. He was replacing at the last minute another guitarist who couldn't make it. He is the guitarist with white hair.

Jai Ma!

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Mes amis Alexey Kravchenko (guitare) et Kirill Parenchuk (tabla & percussions) de Moscou interprétant des compositions et improvisations d'Alexey au Buskers' Festival de 2007 à Neuchâtel, en Suisse, le 14 août 2007. Veuillez visiter la page d'Alexey pour plus de musique par ce guitariste remarquable: www.youtube.com/user/AlexeyGuitar

Voici la première de douze vidéos des feux d'artifice de Genève, prise depuis le toit de mon immeuble à environ 2 kilomètres des feux. Étant débutante, je ne connais pas encore toutes les fonctions d'une caméra vidéo, et la caméra était donc en mode automatique et, par moments, la mise au point devient floue car la caméra ne sait pas sur quoi se régler. Soyez indulgents... D'ici les prochains feux d'artifice en 2008, je serai devenue experte et pourrai vous offrir des vidéos impeccables de l'édition 2008 des feux d'artifices de Genève.