BrainLock
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Are you are talking about when you upload videos to Hash's A:M Films area?
A:M Films won't work on your iPad because A:M Films uses Flash to play the videos. The iPad does not work with Flash.
You may also have noticed that the Hash.com home page also does not display on your iPad. The upper half of the page is a Flash application.
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Nicely done, although I'm a little bothered that their feet/legs are cut off at the bottom of the poster.
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Looks like it will be awesome!
and reminds me of the old 20,000 Years Under the Sea Ride at Disney World, not to mention the movie.
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I think it would be the director's job -- define each character's physical personality traits and keep close eye on the animation work in progress to guide the animators and ensure each character is distinct and consistent through the film.
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One thing that strikes me is that Scarecrow and the king have very similar body language. They hold and move their arms and hands very similarly to one another. Is that in purpose?
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looks good!
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Is there anything 'legal' on Torrents?
I've seen a variety of materials legally distributed by torrents. Torrents allow you to spread the bandwidth load among all the people downloading a file instead of having them all try to get it exclusively from your server.
That said, I suspect the majority of torrents are used for illegal downloads.
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you are mr. wizard with this software. Next up, cumulonimbus with rain and lightning and maybe a tornado?
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TSM2
in TSM2 - Rig
Got it now. Thanks much!
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TSM2
in TSM2 - Rig
The ZIP for the last one, "Ogre," appears to be corrupted. Two un-archivers refused to open it for me.
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Thank you Rodney,
i only have two copies left. at the time i created the book, of 64 pages. i was doing trade shows with my fantasy characters. The book was to go along with them. So i only made 15 copies.
I wonder if you could sell it through Lulu.com or another such print-on-demand service.
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Why would you go thru CreatSpace.com when they just outsource it to Amazon...why not just go right thru Amazon? I see there are currntly NO movies in the animated categorie- this must be all quite new.
CreateSpace is part of Amazon.
I suspect a key question is whether the 50-50 split on the gross revenue and other terms are is acceptable. How much control would have to be ceded to Amazon?
On the other hand, if TWO doesn't have much of a money-making distribution option elsewhere, this could be a strong option.
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Who was Edmund Fitzgerald?
read all about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Edmund_Fitzgerald
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Because they don`t want to sell it to everybody.
WHY?
I think there were issues with the cost of tech support for Netrender making it unprofitable to offer to the general public, so the company now limits its sales. I was surprised to see that it is still offered to anyone.
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Strange... the larger ones looked more real, more natural. The smaller ones look like implants.
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According to this, the set that the actor jogged in was 38 feet in diameter and 10 feet wide:
http://www.palantir.net/2001/meanings/dfx.html
It was a 38-ton "Ferris wheel" with the set pieces bolted down and, in some scenes, the actors strapped down.
I'm not sure if 38 feet is small enough to fit The Discovery as portrayed in the movie.
I've read that it's common in science fiction movies for the interiors of space ships, as portrayed by the sets, to be too large to fit if the exterior dimensions as portrayed by the models, CGI, etc.
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NICE!
Will you be modeling the interior of what looks like the bridge, above the pod bay?
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Interesting that it's blocked in Germany. Perhaps it is copyright.
Meanwhile, when your video plays for me in the U.S., a window pops up offering me a chance to buy the song on iTunes or at Amazon.com.
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Just as I was really starting to get into it, I had to bow out early last year to handle a crisis in the "real world" (and I'm still dealing with some fallout from it). And my main computer broke down.
But I hope to pick up the bat again soon. Nice to see that TWO is finished and another movie is on the way.
I'd like to change my screen name. Can anyone advise me on that?
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Thanks. Interesting.. Now I just need to interpret the odd characters produced in the export
I submitted this as a bug report on v14 in December. It also shows up in the tool-tips and in the drop-down menus.
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I will start at it tomorrow (Sunday). Also, Rob, look for a PM from me. I'll need some guidance.
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Yeah, I think we may have to to drop the scarecrow-holding-his-nose shot.
So that gives us 6 photos on the front page.
How about these slight changes on the article headings...
"Winkies wonder, will Woodman weturn?"
"Skittish Scarecrow gives scoop"
Re: "Winkies wonder, will Woodman weturn" - I was playing with that idea (minus the "w" on "return." But with so many longish words, the headline was going to 5 decks. That's usually too much. I was trying to hold it to 4. Maybe I can make it work.
Re: "weturn" vs "return" - If the new hed comes in with four "W" words in a row before "return," I suspect many people will unconsciously say or think "weturn"
re: "Skittish Scarecrow gives scoop" - That could work but that makes the hed a lot shorter. I'll need to bump up the point size and probably have to reduce the size of the photos below to compensate. Otherwise there will be a lot of unnatural white space because each deck of the hed will be very short. Each deck is already a little short as it is. Maybe it would instead work as
Skittish Scarecrow gives
scandal-filled scoop
but the second deck is still a bit too short.
Answering other people's points:
- I didn't do a whole lot with the body type other than set it in 10-point Times. I have ways to tighten the kerning. I'll play with it.
- The "photo credits" were my best guesses on who animated the individual scenes. Send PMs with corrections or post them here.
- The text of the "articles" is from the original book, The Tin Woodman of Oz, published on May 13, 1918. The book is said to have revived L. Frank Baum's then flagging literary career and the Oz series. It's the 14th book in the series (therefore this paper is Vol. XIV, No. 14).
I'm a little jammed up until Saturday, so the updates probably won't be ready until then or Sunday.
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ack.. more criss-crossing in the Internet ether!
Dhar, thank you, too!
Rob, glad you like it!
re: the photo I took out (of the nose holding)... I wonder if we need to put it back in. The page is already pretty full and you only have 8 seconds. The audience saw Woodman hit the Scarecrow just a moment before and then saw Scarecrow in mid-fall in the lead photo... We've already given them the gag and a punchline. They should be smart enough to know Scarecrow's a little banged up and annoyed.
If we put it back, we ought to crop in tight on Scarecrow (completely crop out the waving Woodman). If we keep the Woodman, we lose focus on Scarecrow. We also already display two other photos in which Woodman is in very similar positioning/poses. Do we need three of the Woodman standing 3/4 to the camera? I struggled a bit with them before because the photos were so similar/repetitive.
EDIT: Another idea... keep the holding-nose photo (with fixed caption) instead of the freeze-frame. Using both images (knock down then holding nose) slightly slows the pace. The audience saw him get knocked down. The photo of him holding his nose, maybe a bit tighter, but still enough to see Tinman waving, is a punchline. Go from white-out of the camera flash to fade in on the front page.
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Thanks Nancy. It was fun to make.
David and Rob: I found and subbed in a knock-down freeze-frame image.
The blurriness I assume will be handled when we get a high-res render. I'm hopeful that when another render is made, the camera will be panned down further so that Woot and the Woodman's feet aren't cut off. There's a lot of dead space at the top of he photo.
Also, in the pitch in this thread, Rob specified using a different frame. It's the one right when the Woodman's arm hits the Scarecrow's face. The problem with that frame is that we can't see Woot's face. His head is bent down and his face is totally hidden by his hat.
The frame I grabbed, Rob specified in another thread, has nice poses of Woot and Woodman, but Scarecrow is so many frames past the one where he gets knocked in the head that he's almost horizontal with the ground. I hope it's OK.
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An idea for some added bit of interest/complication: The animators could attempt to coordinate their exits and entrances.
Example:
If Animator Andy has Thom leave a room by stumbling backward through the door, and Animator Jimmy has the next room, then Jimmy has to finish Thom's backward stumble/fall in Thom's entrance into Jimmy's scene.
It would be a good way to practice teamwork and continuity. But it may be a level of complexity that can be skipped for a fun exercise like this.