pixelmech Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 I finally got my 15-year old reel back from the guy who transformed it to a DVD-ROM AVI for me. Let me just say that upon further review - this isn't as good as I remember! Anyway, I promised I would post it so here it is. I did this in 1990 in my senior year at Columbia. I do remember it being a lot of work, the total time of actual animation is about 17 seconds, BUT much of it is reused/flipping cels and so forth to avoid doing too much work so the piece suffers from that. The actual animating of the duck is not too good either! But it was fun - and a lot of work - to do. In 15 years the film really suffered pretty bad. The color is all washed out and there are lots of artifacts and so forth. I have QuickTime Pro, I was thinking of downloading a trial of After Effects or Premiere to maybe tidy it up, but not sure if that would help. The film is 7.56 MB, I suggest right clicking and save it to your hard drive. Enjoy! http://www.pixelmech.com/rev/no_honor_small.mov Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:shortdog:. Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 That was interesting to watch...why is there a smiley face in one of the frames? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenH Posted February 24, 2005 Share Posted February 24, 2005 Nice! I look forward to seeing what you can do with AM today! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmech Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 That was interesting to watch...why is there a smiley face in one of the frames? That was an attempt at being innovative or something, I don't know. I think I figured it wouldn't be as noticeable as it was ...oops! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeadlessBill Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 I kinda liked it. It's rather cute. It might be interesting to revisit it in A:M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfirestine Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 I like it! You can do a remake in A:M.... George Lucas fixed his Star Wars film, so you can too... Kinda reminds me of my little claymation movie I did in the early 80's when I was a wee lad. Maybe someday I should show it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmech Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 Hey, I never thought of redoing it -- hmmm. My skills have a LONG way to go though before that happens. Still, it's a thought. Frankly some of it would be a lot easier than drawing it all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fleebag Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 Very fun. For some reason I especially like the coin falling on the ground next to the closeup of the foot. It's cool to look back and see how far we've come. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmech Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 Thanks - well I don't know how far I've come, got nothing done yet in AM Looking back I wish I had taken more time setting the key poses and doing the inbetweens. I do remember being under a time crunch (most likely because I procrastinated) and it was a big project. IIRC there were 300+ cels to draw, ink and color. The backgrounds are horrible too. It's just all part of my thing where I rushed through everything in school - man if I could only go back now! I'm going to try and clean it up somehow, I'm just not sure how... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuchur Posted February 25, 2005 Share Posted February 25, 2005 The face is surely a attempt to help the viewer enjoying the movie... Coca Cola did that a long time ago... if you went to the cinema, they shown you 1 frame in a minute or something with a nice coke-bottle. After the movie, about 80% of the people in the cinema wanted to buy a coke. This is not allowed anymore, but you tried to archieve a positiv feedback, right? Anyway: It worked... I like it too... *gg* *Fuchur* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pixelmech Posted February 25, 2005 Author Share Posted February 25, 2005 LOL Fuchur, I remember the Coca Cola thing too - maybe that is why I did it. Glad you liked it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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