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Post by Rodak on Oct 15, 2005 16:31:45 GMT -5
Here is a long promised piece of stop motion animation. This one is the parody I did of The Incredible Hulk 1960s cartoon opening credits. The visuals closely follow the original and the theme song is original. s63.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1MIZY50NQ28SE1BQBJL4JPJ6ZZIt is a 9Mb file in a 4.2 Mb folder. Should be OK for those slower modems out there. Hope you like it. Or hate it. As long as you're not indifferent to it! Oh yeah, that 's a temporary link. If it expires and you want it renewed, Just post here! Peace.
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Post by Bigfoot on Oct 15, 2005 16:53:13 GMT -5
I watched the video and it was a delight to watch It was very well done, and I hate using this word, but I found the cow to be very adorable.
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Post by Rodak on Oct 15, 2005 17:21:29 GMT -5
Thanks! It's a favorite of mine. I decided to digitize much of my stuff. It is on ancient VHS tape and needs to be preserved. Here's another of those temporary links. As usual if it expires and you want it renewed, Just post here! s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=05N0UV5JE8P1D32BIXBAPU5BOLThis one is a bit bigger. It's a 24Mb file in a 10 Mb folder. It is a Stuffed Cow Jumping Rope. All of my stop motion stars Stuffed Cows. I have no idea why. {moo} Watch for the little deer in the corner who takes a drink from the stream then get eaten by a cave monster. It's in the background. Peace.
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Post by Dungeon Warden on Oct 15, 2005 19:16:55 GMT -5
Those looked like they were fun to do. You seem to have a good sense of fun.
I put my own stop motion animation up in my own topic it you want to take a look.
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Post by Doan the Nado on Oct 16, 2005 0:01:21 GMT -5
Ahh... seeing that brings back memories. In 5th grade, we did a group project in which we had to do something about The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (I later read the whole series and loved it), and our group decided to do a claymation using stop motion animation. I think it turned out pretty good. One person in the group's mom owned an art gallery, and she made all the clay characters, and then we spent countless time setting up, recording for a second, stopping, moving a little, and repeating until we had a reenactment of the entire book.
Anyways, the first one was pretty cool. The second one is downloading rather slowly, but maybe yousendit doesn't appreciate that I was downloading 3 files from them at once.
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Post by Rodak on Oct 16, 2005 5:26:38 GMT -5
You seem to have a good sense of fun. My God, Man! What else is there? And Doan, C. S. Lewis is a big hero of mine. If you liked that series, try Piers Anthony's Xanth series. I have a game planned set in the land of Xanth, but it is quite a ways off yet. I've got a couple tapes full of these short things ranging from 30 seconds to 4 minutes. They were done with a full sized VHS Camcorder, so that explains the choppyness. I am now in the process of digitizing them for preservation (these are 10 - 15 years old) and thought I'd share. If people like them I'll post a few more of the better ones. I've got two "Big Ones"... a 3 1/2 minute Pro Wrestling parody (Hulk Holstein vs Bessy for The Cottonweight Championship of The World), and of course, a Cow vs Monster fight (The Feathery Eyeball Thing From Hell). That one is 4 minutes. Thanks for the comments, everyone. Peace.
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Post by Doan the Nado on Oct 20, 2005 11:48:07 GMT -5
I look forward to that. I'll give those books a look-see if I ever get some spare time.
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Post by Rodak on Oct 22, 2005 14:33:36 GMT -5
I had such a nice response last week that I may make this a weekly ritual. Here is a short of a Stuffed Cow eating his Veggies! And Doan... Beware of Xanth. It is light hearted sillyness and the first trilogy is 27 novels. Piers thought the book count needed to be 3 to the third power to be a trilogy Peace.
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Post by Dungeon Warden on Oct 23, 2005 13:20:19 GMT -5
Another great animated short. There are a few seconds at the end that show the camera cutting off. If you want I can use premiere to remove this.
The Loonie Toons begining was a nice touch but there should be some credits or something at this point. It would be nice if something was happening. Other then that it was very good.
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Post by Rodak on Oct 23, 2005 15:43:18 GMT -5
I am getting better with my editing thingy and am sure I can trim the ends now... I just didn't notice or forgot.
Thanks for the offer, though!
It has a great double time feature which makes the animation really smooth and the files a lot smaller, but I need to pay to unlock it. I have no credit cards I can use online.
Right now it shows the company logo (transparent) and gives a beeping soundtrack.
I may post some of it anyhow.
That is the cow who ate The Feathery Eyeball Thing From Hell, you know.
Thanks for watching! I am glad you liked it.
Peace.
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Post by Dungeon Warden on Oct 23, 2005 17:28:54 GMT -5
Well, I don't have to pay to use the editing tools here (other then the cost to come to college in the first place), so you can save some money (and the trouble of getting a credit card) if you allow me to edit it. It's up to you what you want to do, but the options there if you want to take it.
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Post by Doan the Nado on Oct 24, 2005 9:01:28 GMT -5
I liked that one the best so far... it really looked like he was eating the stuff, although I agree about the trimming/credits/faster play speed.
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Post by Rodak on Oct 25, 2005 5:04:28 GMT -5
I think I might as well take Dungeon Warden up on his offer. Feel free to edit away as you see fit. And Thanks Muchly for the kind offer. I think all the links have current versions. I guess I'll show ya what my thingy does with a double time version of A Labour of Unrequited Love... Hulk Holstein vs Bessy. What more need be said? It's the wrestling match of the century (last century)! The original is a monster 36 Megabyte Zipped folder with a 62 Megabyte mpg file. NOT dial up friendly. This one is a 17 MB Folder with a 28 MB file. I don't know how friendly that will be. The double time looks great, but is still locked. In fairness to Pinnacle, they advertised it as a Video Capture device and the editing suite is just there. Locked, but previewable. It is actually a decent salespitch. It also does chroma key (bleu screen), distortions, and much more. So shut off your speakers or turn down your volume because there is a constant beeping they place there to get you to buy it. And a transparent Logo advertising their company. But I ain't payin' to unlock the thing yet, so tolerate it. Or not. The original audio track is probably best ignored anyhow. You see, this was a Christmas present for the Woman I loved at the time. She used a silly voice to puppeteer stuffed animals and that is my impersonation of it. It's embarrassing, but I left it there anyhow. She also had a love of pro wrestling. She watched it for the same reasons men watched Baywatch. This took 13 1/2 hours of straight work (running downstairs to prepare microwave meals in stages in between frames at mealtimes) (the camera would sit on pause for 3 minutes before stopping, thus ruining the hope of smoothness in the thing). And she still married somebody else. Bitch. That's OK, it didn't last.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2005 6:44:27 GMT -5
You have an odd but good sense of humor.
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Post by Rodak on Oct 26, 2005 4:44:36 GMT -5
Thanks, Will! Over at the pavilion I got an indirect request for this with sound. So here it is for us as well. But I warned you... My announcing is irritating as hell. I never followed pro wrestling and based it on my exposure while being with the woman for whom this was made (see previous post). I did go to great lengths to get an audience and appropriate music. I even use the nWo music when Hulk Holstein makes his appearance in his M-Double-O T shirt. Plus, it looks better at double speed, and may be a huge download at "real time." {DungeonWarden: This would be a great item for editing... Double speed looked good, but if you have decimals you can use feel free to set it as you see fit!} I'm gonna go stick my head in a hole in the ground now. Peace.
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Post by Rodak on Nov 13, 2005 13:32:18 GMT -5
I seem to have skipped a week on this thread... Oops. Busy. Anyway... My sanity was questioned when I made this one. And it has a nice story to it. I decided it would be a great idea to go to NASA's Goddard Space Center (only a 2 hour ride from home at the time) with a pile of stuffed cows, and my camera, and do some stop motion in the Rocket Park. I never claimed to be sane. Nobody'd believe me anyway. I stopped in the gift shop on my way to the Rocket Park and saw two Teddy Bears wearing blue NASA jumpsuits. So I bought them and headed for the park. So, there I am with my camera all set up on a tripod and this big back sack full of cows (I needed a bunch to choose from because I was not sure what I was going to do until I got there) trying to find two cows who would fit in the jumpsuits when this security guard asks me what I'm doing. He was confused, but left me alone. So I set up this thing where I would pan around the park, and end up with the camera pointing at the base of a rocket with the two Teddy Bears on guard. Then The cows would jump them and take over. I'm in the middle of this when a woman with a young child asked me what I was doing. I explained about stop motion and the general plot of the thing I was creating. She was genuinely interested. Then she asked me what "They" were going to do with it. I told her I did not understand. She wanted to know why NASA would film such a thing. I told her that I was just doing this for fun. It's a hobby. A look of terror came over her face, She grabbed her child by the hand and left very quickly to the sound of me laughing hysterically at her actions. That story makes the mediocrity of the clip less bothersome to me. In fact it is one of my favorites. Not because it is any good, but because of that story. It's another piece without a soundtrack. I never did make one for this, although I let it run a little long because after the animation ends I speak a line of explanation of what just happened. If the file is too big for some of you and you still want to see it, I'll break it into two at the point where the panning around the park ends and the animation begins. But you'll have to ask... That's this week's offering. Enjoy. Or not. Peace.
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Post by Doan the Nado on Nov 14, 2005 8:01:30 GMT -5
That story is pretty hilarious. The idea that an adult could do something for fun? Preposterous!
As for the video, I liked it. The "sneaky cows" were pretty neat, and it was pretty cool when they carried off the bears. I can certainly see why it is one of your favorites, especially with that story that you have attached to it.
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Post by NASH7777 on Nov 14, 2005 20:08:10 GMT -5
Heh i liked it once it got going. Are you sure your as old as you claim to be btw?
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Post by Rodak on Nov 15, 2005 3:10:27 GMT -5
Are you sure your as old as you claim to be btw? Premature Senility, I guess. Thanks for watching that. I'm glad you liked it. Besides, I thought it was pretty much exclusively us Old Hippies who still close conversations with Peace.
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Post by Rodak on Dec 4, 2005 8:48:04 GMT -5
Here is my very first bit of Stop Motion! Oddly, I never gave it a soundtrack. So I just dubbed a few effects in where the music would have gone all choppy. Here ya go... Another in the SCTV Series (Stuffed Cow Television). Peace.
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Post by Doan the Nado on Dec 4, 2005 22:54:39 GMT -5
Not bad for a first one. Gotta start somewhere, right?
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Post by Rodak on Dec 5, 2005 5:03:39 GMT -5
Thanks! That started a long time hobby with less to show for it than I would like, but there's still more... I may just need to get a new camera. I miss doing this stuff. I refreshed the NASA link above (per request), but here it is again if anyone missed it last time: Peace.
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Post by Rodak on Dec 18, 2005 8:50:25 GMT -5
Here is a effort which moved very slowly so I made a double time version. Mute you audio!! It beeps and has that logo thing I still have not paid to unlock. [/url] It is also a play with forced perspective. The camera is rotated 90 degrees. Have fun... Peace.
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Post by Rodak on Dec 25, 2005 17:41:31 GMT -5
It's Christmas and The Stuffed Cows are on Vacation, so here is Professor Blueteeth and His Martian Gelatine! Both images lead to the same file, I just could not pick a favorite... And I have no idea why they are showing up so small. I'll try to fix that later. This is clamyation... after a fashion. It is cheap dollar store clay and kept breaking so the movement is not what I would have wanted. But is is something different for the Holidays. Peace.
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Post by Rodak on Dec 26, 2005 8:39:02 GMT -5
It's Christmas and The Stuffed Cows are on Vacation, ... Well, the vacation has been interrupted by The Feathery Eyeball Thing From HELL! (Damn Him!) It's up to The Hungry Cow to Save The Day! (Remember him? He's the one eating veggies above) Can He Eat The Whole Thing? Is The Cow's Holiday Camping Trip RUINED? Can your Internet Connection handle these huge files? (if not ask and I'll cuttem in half for you) (or drop the video quality down a bit). Here is the opening credits file: The titles were made with the good old Tandy 1000 and the video camera is just pointing at the screen. The sweep rates were remarkably close and the flicker is not bad. It is a 25 MB file in a 13 MB Compressed Folder. And here is the actual movie: Both images link to the same file again. I couldn't choose... The soundtrack is just me making silly noises for SFX and doing some Narration. This was a fun effort and did not take as long as the Wrestling Match (no strings attached!) (sorry, I'm still subject to Sacralepsy). It is a monstrous (and feathery) 78 MB file in a 35 MB Compressed Folder. So download these one at a time for the sake of your computer's sanity. Theses two parts were on separate tapes and this is the first time they have been put together! OK, technically they are still separate, but they are closer than they've ever been... I am now convinced that my New Year's Resolution will be to get a new-ish camcorder type thing capable of allowing me to continue with this long abandoned, but wonderfully silly hobby. Your positive reactions to my sharing this effort at digitally archiving 15 year old VHS Video tapes played a big role in that decision. Thank you all. Peace.
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