overheads?

[Steve Laramie]

How do you do overhead plans for pre production? Is there any type of software that will make it easy for you?

 

[bcheong]

Adobe illustrator is pretty good for that kind of thing. You can pre-make your fixtures and save them for future layouts.

 

[RyanT]

Yeah, Illustrator is what I use for blocking.

 

[puredrifting]

OmniGraffle is a great program for this, tons of great items available.

Dan

 

[j]

OMG!

Google Sketchup: It's Free, easy, works in 2d and 3d, draws to scale and has thousands of free elements, and hundreds of film related elements (cameras, jibs, kinos, sandbags...)

Here are some screen grabs from a shoot I'm planning for next week.

 

[puredrifting]

That is pretty damned cool. Makes the other programs seem like toys in comparison.

Thanks for the tip.

Dan

 

[Drew Ott]

How long have you been using SketchUp?

Is something like that easy to create if you know what you want? It seems pretty difficult. I guess I should try it out. I tried to make my room in 3d using the software a couple months ago but failed.

 

[j]

It's unlike any other 3d software, it's a little weird, but once you figure it out, you can fly fast.

I spent about a day going through some online tutorials.

 

[ilauzirika]

Thse diagrams can't be called diagrams....... Thanks for the tip.

 

[j]

>Thse diagrams can't be called diagrams

Heh? What do you mean?

 

[ilauzirika]

>Thse diagrams can't be called diagrams

Heh? What do you mean?

uh sorry the rest of the sentence disappeared.....
these are more than diagrams, they are great 3d plans, that can even be used for stagging and blocking and etc.... that is what I meant to say:thumbup:

again thanks for this find.

 

[Steve Laramie]

wow sketchup is really nice thanks allot.