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New Wetcircuit dot Com!

DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,583
edited December 1969 in Carrara Discussion

Just saw this in the new Post your Renders thread:

holly wetcircuit said:
Website is UP! Please take a look!
http://www.wetcircuit.com

Really cool start!
Hint: Click on the 3d head to begin
Holly, could you perhaps explain a bit about the titles of the selections?
Also, unlike what bigh said, the site is perfectly fast for me, Vimeo as well as the rest. Perhaps it's because I recently (finally) got tired of Firefox taking forever for everything, and switched to Chrome browser.
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  • wetcircuitwetcircuit Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    :red: Oh, I don't think it needed a whole new thread but since you started it I will tell my secret is an HTML5 authoring app called HYPE by TUMULT
    http://tumult.com/hype/
    it is Mac only... I do not know an equivalent for Windows. This is my first serious Hype project. It is using HTML5 web standards and javascript to trigger the robot video with the button navigation.

    If you've ever used powerpoint or keynote, the concept is similar. You build a series of "tiles" or "scenes". In each one an animation is triggered or media plays by clicking on something

    The robot is V4 (and Cyber V4) and Mimic..., and despite the whole conversation we had in another thread about improving Mimic settings this is just V4's default DMC.... I tried to compress each video to about ~500k. Depending on what browser you use you might be seeing one of three different encodes (html5 "standards" haha).

    The voice is a text-to-speech voice that I bought, so a little better than the free ones that come with os...

    Here's the inside of Hype...

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  • TangoAlphaTangoAlpha Posts: 4,584
    edited December 1969

    I like it; it's really slick.


    I spent 10 minutes just making the robot blink! (simple things, eh? :cheese:)

  • That Other PersonaThat Other Persona Posts: 381
    edited December 1969

    Nicely done.

    I just got into Hype last month and am having a blast with it.

  • wetcircuitwetcircuit Posts: 0
    edited July 2014

    That Other Persona said:

    I just got into Hype last month and am having a blast with it.

    Ohh, anything you can show? Any weirdness you've run in to? I'm actually very impressed that everyone is reporting that it "works". It's been a while since I tried to build a bells and whistles website. I'd given up on FLASH and DIRECTOR years ago in favor of basic wordpress... Hype even works on my iPad although sometimes it gets fussy about hiding the animation's controls....

    Smoothest test is on Chrome, but OS X Safari also looks very good. Once the videos are loaded they swap out seamlessly, but I get a blink out when they first load... Firefox uses the Ogg Vorbis codec for its videos, and my Vorbis encodes are less successful, I may need to go back and re-encode... overall Firefox was the least cooperative in my testing.... I'm scared to look at Internet Explorer.... Worst possibility is something just doesn't load and someone gets stuck because I haven't built in exceptions or workaround links to get to a non bells&whistles; version....

    I spent 10 minutes just making the robot blink! (simple things, eh? :cheese:)


    Heh heh heh Yeah! I need more sound fx and the eyes need to do some kind of mechanical jitter and more gears spinning and whatnot, lol. After 15yrs of boring websites I want to go back to having a website that is fun to visit - at least it's a talking point.

    I don't think you can do anything as complicated as a full game, but a quiz or interactive tutorials are certainly doable... The robot animations *could* have been more complex, but I sort of wasn't sure where it was all going so I wanted to keep it simple in case I had to redo them all, even now I need a few more animations because I had to split some buttons to make more pages..... and I feel I might need a blog after all so I may restore some of my old wordpress site and try to integrate it with the Hype site... I'll maybe sex up those directory links so they aren't just text but more Carrara animations, some kind of steampunk control panel....

    Hype also exports for iBook, so I am wondering whether I can maybe build my graphic novel with it... All the examples I've found online of animated graphic novels honestly clunk. I think once you are no longer doing a silent comicbook using word balloons for dialog are ridiculous.... but once you have people talking you might as well go fullmonty and create a video. I'm not seeing examples of people who have found a good middle ground for "web comics" or "interactive graphic novel" however you want to call it....

    Smith Micro released software called MotionArtist that is created for this purpose, but it is still lacking certain necessary functions (like global variables) so you can make a "choose you own adventure" type game. I'm not sure Hype can do this either (probably with some javascripting, but I'm not there yet). It may require a jump up to Unity just to get that kind of function....

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  • JoepingletonJoepingleton Posts: 746
    edited December 1969

    very cool site and thanks for the info about hype.

  • EddyMI3DEddyMI3D Posts: 365
    edited December 1969

    Great work. I like it!

  • DartanbeckDartanbeck Posts: 21,583
    edited December 1969

    Very cool. So I was wondering if you could tell us a bit about:
    What does the Projection Mapping video mean towards Projection Mapping? What did you do to come up with this video? Did you make the video?, etc., Band Visuals, 3D Interactive... could you perhaps tell us a bit about what of these is 'you'?
    Just being curious as a pal, not some sort of critic. ;)

  • That Other PersonaThat Other Persona Posts: 381
    edited December 1969

    I use Hype to make interactive teaching materials, nothing too fancy yet and I am still in the experimental phase. I am a mere language teacher, not an artist or programmer, so anything I create pales in comparison to stuff posted here on the forums.

    For example, I can have vocabulary items (some created in Carrara!) with triggers for audio. Same for phrases. Video can go in as well, but Hype doesn't have many controls for video, yet.

    I needed the ability to create HTML for offline viewing and distribution and many of the website creation apps require some kind of URL. Hype permits saving to html without any URL.

    I do want to be able to do better roll-over mapping... Hype currently only has fixed shapes for this.

  • SileneUKSileneUK Posts: 1,975
    edited December 1969

    I guess I'm a Flash & Dreamweaver antiquarian... oh well.

    I love the site, looks great!

    :-) Silene

  • wetcircuitwetcircuit Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    Dartanbeck said:
    Very cool. So I was wondering if you could tell us a bit about:
    What does the Projection Mapping video mean towards Projection Mapping? What did you do to come up with this video? Did you make the video?, etc., Band Visuals, 3D Interactive... could you perhaps tell us a bit about what of these is 'you'?
    Just being curious as a pal, not some sort of critic. ;)

    Anything that looks like visuals or video projection (which in that particular video means all the lighting and anything animated on the walls and on the people).

    I don't edit video. I'm a VJ. Projection mapping refers to aligning video projections with existing architecture to create an animated environment.

    Eventually I'll replace the example videos with more of an edited "reel", but these are all good samples of my work so I'm keeping it simple for now.

  • wetcircuitwetcircuit Posts: 0
    edited December 1969

    That Other Persona said:
    I use Hype to make interactive teaching materials, nothing too fancy yet and I am still in the experimental phase. I am a mere language teacher, not an artist or programmer, so anything I create pales in comparison to stuff posted here on the forums.

    For example, I can have vocabulary items (some created in Carrara!) with triggers for audio. Same for phrases. Video can go in as well, but Hype doesn't have many controls for video, yet.

    I needed the ability to create HTML for offline viewing and distribution and many of the website creation apps require some kind of URL. Hype permits saving to html without any URL.

    I do want to be able to do better roll-over mapping... Hype currently only has fixed shapes for this.


    I assume many of the limits of Hype are limits in HTML5, but I could be wrong.... With enough javascript knowledge I think you could probably run the world... ;D
  • That Other PersonaThat Other Persona Posts: 381
    edited December 1969

    30 years ago I could manage a couple of lines of BASIC. . . .


    Sometimes I regret not keeping up a little more.

  • DADA_universeDADA_universe Posts: 336
    edited December 1969

    Sad.to.find.out.Hype.is.only.available.for.Mac.users.
    Was curious enough to take a look....but, oh well....
    Congratulations on your new site Holly Wetcircuit...I find what you're doing with stage scenery and projection mapping (didnt know that's what it was called...;o))pretty interesting. This was the first video that introduced me to the idea, I was really tripped with the possibilities, I still am. The second video is the making of the first:
    http://vimeo.com/16722030
    http://vimeo.com/16722548

  • eyeseeeyesee Posts: 172
    edited December 1969

    For windows you might want to look at Hippo Animator 3

    https://www.hippostudios.co/?S=Animator&P=AnimatorHome

    Eyesee ( Jedi Tea Master - Green Tea, Yoda's favourite)

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