Mer bootvideo (under water theme)

[claesbas]

I got asked if I could do a bootvideo for the Mer project, so I gladly did. I tried to follow the awesome underwater theme created by wazd and came up with this:

avi xvid/lame dl:
http://castus.dnsalias.com:8080/share/mer_bootvideo_800x480_mstrcomp_draft1.avi

ogv Theora/ogg:
http://castus.dnsalias.com:8080/share/mer_bootvideo_800x480_mstrcomp_draft1.ogv

Please give comments and suggestions for improvements.. thank you!

[ArnimS]

I love it.

Animation might even look good played back unnaturally fast, total time 1 second.

Might look good if the m e r text fades-in without the bubbles, and then the bubbles freeze in-place at proper position while bleaching to white.

Some people might prefer more bling-lighting from waves/sun above.

Also perhaps a different fade-in effect for logo; at start, logo is strongly blurred and dark and sort-of appears coming out of the deep blue.

- just ideas if you want to play more. looks fine to me as-is.

[Aweb]

Nice video, I like the water effects

[MSHAH]

can't open the link, but looks great from the stills. any info on getting custom boot video running on n900?

[Aweb]

1- Copy the video to /usr/share/hildon-welcome/media
2- Go to /etc/hildon-welcome.d/ and edit the default.conf file or create a similar one (the videos will play by the alphabetic order of the .conf files)

From this thread : http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=32935

[joppu]

That is just beautiful!

Is this made with After Effects or what?

[icbolsh]

I like it. When will the OS be ready to be the only OS on my N800?

[claesbas]

I love it.

Animation might even look good played back unnaturally fast, total time 1 second.

Might look good if the m e r text fades-in without the bubbles, and then the bubbles freeze in-place at proper position while bleaching to white.

Some people might prefer more bling-lighting from waves/sun above.

Also perhaps a different fade-in effect for logo; at start, logo is strongly blurred and dark and sort-of appears coming out of the deep blue.

- just ideas if you want to play more. looks fine to me as-is.

Thank you, those are all great suggestions. I think it would be cool abit faster too. Its very calm and dreamy in this phase, but that is good too. I will try to tweak those bubbles abit faster..

That bubble idea with some actually freezing in place forming the logo is great. I see if I can mange to keyframe those bubbles seperatly from beneath to inplace. Should work..

More shine from the surface is possible. I usually put on more from start but then in the finishing process cut down on most of them.

I agree that logo entrance does need some work. I will see what I can do there..

can't open the link, but looks great from the stills. any info on getting custom boot video running on n900?

link should work.. please try again..

That is just beautiful!

Is this made with After Effects or what?

thank you, yes its AE all the way..

[JustNick]

That's really nice :)
Is there some sort of hard-coded time-constraint limit to boot-up video's duration (apart from good common sense)?

[Tomaszd]

That is amazingly beautiful. Thank you. :)

[wizbowes]

I love it - but some constrcutive criticism.

The whole thing is very realistic but the main bubbles look a little fake and that spoils it. I think they're too sharp and in focus and could be a little softer. The general water effect looks very natural and the bubbles not so.

That said I'll be putting this on my N900 if it ever arrives.

[claesbas]

That's really nice :)
Is there some sort of hard-coded time-constraint limit to boot-up video's duration (apart from good common sense)?

thanks, I don't think there is a time limit. This one is 10sec.. thats the longest as bareable I would say. Maybe even abit long..

I love it - but some constrcutive criticism.

The whole thing is very realistic but the main bubbles look a little fake and that spoils it. I think they're too sharp and in focus and could be a little softer. The general water effect looks very natural and the bubbles not so.

That said I'll be putting this on my N900 if it ever arrives.

thank you.. I agree with the bubbles. They don't look very realistic, there is a Finding Nemo feel over them.. I think they are to big.. smaller and as you say abit mote out of focus would give it a more realistic look.

[RichS]

That's awesome definately should be the stock Mer boot screen. I'd actually reboot intentionally to show people :P