Tetris Attack

My final project from filmmaking class at high school. The teacher encouraged us to make a simple plot, and that’s what I did. But he didn’t mention to keep the effects simple too :s It took quite a long time to make – I had to learn some new skills, etc… But surprisingly, the 3D blocks and stuff wasn’t the hardest part – it was pen-tooling the outline of my friend’s body OVER 9000 TIMES to keep him in front of the Tetris bricks I edited in at various scenes. Honestly, there’s no quicker way to start hating your friend than to have to trace the outline of his body thirty times for each second of on-screen footage XD. So many hours spent doing this that I nearly gave up at times :/ Quick notes: I made the Tetris interface and all special effects from scratch. You may see the wrong thing on my friend’s screen now and then – just a minor continuity error. I will not make a tutorial on this, at least not any time this year, if ever. You can learn from dozens of existing tutorials, but one I found extremely helpful is here: fictionality.co.uk Programs Used: Blender 2.52 (epic free open-source 3D graphics program): Used for all Tetris bricks (including on the computer screen) and animation involving them. Voodoo 0.9.4 (freeware camera tracking program): Used to “reverse-engineer” the camera’s movements and generate a virtual camera with proper motion for 3D programs (so the bricks seem to move with the camera). Fireworks CS4 (epic, but expensive, web/game graphics program by …
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