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At 4/1/06 09:58 PM, yoddtacos wrote: Well damn, that really sucks...
Well I must waut for mine to get deleted than. It seems the lego manufacturing company wanted to get rid of them. And Tom could not fight it. Well maybe they won't find mine...

Thanks for digging all that up piepie

P.S. like your name...

eh no problem

I doubt they are going to delete yours because the hype went down.

On another note I have been experimenting with the Green Screen technique and well the way I do it is really sloppy and very time consuming so if anyone does it could you say how you do it to see if I'm doing it right or not.

heeheh piepie I wanted Pie but why just pie when it could be 2x the fun with PiePie..

I just saw and reviewed your "catch me if you can" film, and wow was that well done. Like if you keep stuff like that up you are going to be an awesome animator, no joking.

Keep it up man you are a talent! Unlike me who may one day stoop to your level, but anyway nice job.

(p.s. are we making a clay collab?)

At 4/1/06 10:15 PM, yoddtacos wrote: I just saw and reviewed your "catch me if you can" film, and wow was that well done. Like if you keep stuff like that up you are going to be an awesome animator, no joking.

Keep it up man you are a talent! Unlike me who may one day stoop to your level, but anyway nice job.

(p.s. are we making a clay collab?)

go watch Life As A Dreamer if you want some good animation skills...

Also I kind of feel that I did bad on those movies because there was no flash skills involved like my lessons in life 3 which had that intro and stuff done in flash to keep those pesky anti clay people at ease.

collab? I do not no how that will work plus im working on some stuff that is going to keep me busy until summer.

I liked chunga1's pic

At 4/1/06 08:24 PM, yoddtacos wrote: schorhr, how smart are you? Just be less smart you makeus all look bad, nice tutorial by the way but for some reson monkeyjam won't open... do you know hwy this is?

LOL, not smart, I just like stopmotion ;-)
I have no clue why its not opening- Any error message? Did you try clearing your cache and re-downloading it?

If everything fails:
Here an older version without the new icons and audio, still nice.
http://wap.cc/f/MonkeyJam_3.0b_040315.zip

On some computer I also needed to install a dll or a ocx, cant recall which one though.

guys sorry to say but my lego productions are gonna be starting a bit slow...my computer has a virus and is absolutely fucked...luckily i had my mp3 and stored evrything i needed on it while i could lol but ya no lego or klay for me just yet=(

At 4/2/06 06:09 AM, LoStIe wrote: guys sorry to say but my lego productions are gonna be starting a bit slow...my computer has a virus and is absolutely fucked...luckily i had my mp3 and stored evrything i needed on it while i could lol but ya no lego or klay for me just yet=(

damn shame lego would have been a hilarious thing to view

At 4/2/06 06:49 AM, grenade_launcher69 wrote:

damn shame lego would have been a hilarious thing to view

yes i know i know...but i should be starting soon! right now im experimenting with characters and stuff...

At 4/1/06 04:39 PM, schorhr wrote: OK :-)
........

wow that sounds like a lot of fun...
i saw the animation.. looks kool. but is there sound or my speakers are messed up?
cuz i didnt hear anything.
im gonna go work on my little clay thing and download that monkey jam!

At 4/2/06 08:03 AM, G_F_D wrote:

At 4/1/06 04:39 PM, schorhr wrote: OK :-)
........

wow that sounds like a lot of fun...
i saw the animation.. looks kool. but is there sound or my speakers are messed up?
cuz i didnt hear anything.
im gonna go work on my little clay thing and download that monkey jam!

No sound, it never got finished, since I moved and so I and my buddy could never finish the tv show.

hey PIEPIE u know that level thing in your sig well how can this be true

Level 29 -------21796 -----44612days ( 122 years 1 month 27 days )
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,exp^

i dont think its that long!!

At 4/1/06 04:39 PM, schorhr wrote:

No sound, it never got finished, since I moved and so I and my buddy could
never finish the tv show.

hmmm so if u had finished it you would have had your own clay show?!

At 4/2/06 08:06 AM, G_F_D wrote: hey PIEPIE u know that level thing in your sig well how can this be true

Level 29 -------21796 -----44612days ( 122 years 1 month 27 days )
,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,exp^

i dont think its that long!!

NG experiance calculator.
it is that long!!

At 4/2/06 08:11 AM, madknt wrote:

then how does that guy have level 30?!
wat the id is passed on ?

At 4/2/06 08:09 AM, G_F_D wrote:

At 4/1/06 04:39 PM, schorhr wrote:

No sound, it never got finished, since I moved and so I and my buddy could
never finish the tv show.

hmmm so if u had finished it you would have had your own clay show?!

Here in germany, at least in most regions, there are public tv stations.
Except for some laws & limitations everyone can go there, and produce / broadcast shows, even live.
You can "rent" studios, cameras, sometimes even a video-bus, for free.
It is payed from the tv fees we have to pay by law for the public stations.
Its great for kids & students/schools, unfortunaly most stations are beeing taken over by bad holiday-videos, wedding videos and so on.
A few friends and I produced a live computer show every other month, and then I and a buddy started a pre-recorded show, where we build a computer, in another episode a r/c airplain from scratch using hardware-store-utilities, and one about green/bluescreen video.
The clay one never got done...

At 4/2/06 08:17 AM, schorhr wrote:

green/bluescreen video.

The clay one never got done...

green screen?

please do tell your technique if it is quite easy to explain?

and yeah it does take 100 years to get to level 30....

please review this:

At 4/2/06 09:41 AM, chunga1 wrote: please review this:

kind of sloppy looking, looks very hard to animate because from the picture it doesn't look like there are some armature wire in there...

Also everything looks kind of smudged and stuff. The arms are a bit to small.

6/10

I'dd also say that its not good for animating; The arms for example look to tiny, the face seems to be hard to animate too.
Unless its very light clay, it will be even harder without a sceleton- sometimes pipe cleaners will do the job, those are basicly fuzzy wire ;-)

At 4/2/06 09:23 AM, PiePie wrote:

At 4/2/06 08:17 AM, schorhr wrote:

green/bluescreen video.

The clay one never got done...

green screen?

please do tell your technique if it is quite easy to explain?

We did it a while back, when they still used analog equipment in the studio; We explained how the technique works, and made some fun samples...
(See attached image below.)
I once made a tutorial for Zweistein 1 to test wink (a screen recorder), so its neither good nor up to date since there is a new version.
http://www.nottoxic...orials/zweistein.htm

http://www.nottoxic.com/trash/key.htm
Also, another great free program which is able to do this would be "wax 2" or maybee avid.
As you can see on the pictures we used a blue curtain mostly.
What I do not have images of is a scene, where one of my buddies comes out of the toiletbowl. We sat there laughing our heads of after watching the edited clip.
Another thing I do not have a shot of is a matrix scene, where we replaced Neo's head (in the fighting scene where he passes the guards and fights his way to the elevator)

At 4/2/06 11:08 AM, schorhr wrote: What I do not have images of is a scene, where one of my buddies comes out of the toiletbowl. We sat there laughing our heads of after watching the edited clip.
Another thing I do not have a shot of is a matrix scene, where we replaced Neo's head (in the fighting scene where he passes the guards and fights his way to the elevator)

woo lol thanks I used to have zwienstien but then I find that moviemaker does better job.

LOL I like my technique better with using Flash 8 to do it...

I'm going to be making a movie, little Blobs like in Life as a Dreamer and Catch Me if you Can and the problem is the lip syncing. Should I just cut some clay off to make it look like a mouth and when they talk I just move the piece on top back and forth.

OR

do I make like 10 different mouth pieces and after like every 2 frames I change the piece to make it look like he has a mouth that moves?

You guy's have any idea on which one to do what do you think will look better/ more funny?

Great movie, watch it! Movie! :):)

Hey pyro how was camping?

At 4/2/06 01:16 PM, yoddtacos wrote: Hey pyro how was camping?

it was ok except for the other campers...So annoying

Is there any lego movie out there ?

At 4/2/06 01:35 PM, Sepultura123 wrote: Is there any lego movie out there ?

I have some, go watch them! and review, especially my favorite of mine danceing 'till dawn

At 4/2/06 09:41 AM, chunga1 wrote: please review this:

No offense but it looks kinda crappy. To me it looks like you threw clay into a blob and made a face on that blob. How the hell did you animate this?

At 4/2/06 12:00 PM, PiePie wrote: I'm going to be making a movie, little Blobs like in Life as a Dreamer and Catch Me if you Can and the problem is the lip syncing. Should I just cut some clay off to make it look like a mouth and when they talk I just move the piece on top back and forth.

OR

do I make like 10 different mouth pieces and after like every 2 frames I change the piece to make it look like he has a mouth that moves?

You guy's have any idea on which one to do what do you think will look better/ more funny?

Some people draw the mouth over the existing movie ;-)
Well, in most animationstudios they either use a movable mouth, or even multiple heads with different expressions.
Its up to you; My advice would be to make a few seconds of animation trying the techniques you are thinking about using.

At 4/2/06 02:28 PM, schorhr wrote: Its up to you; My advice would be to make a few seconds of animation trying the techniques you are thinking about using.

yup Im doing that now, I even tried using monkeyjam but eh I just don't like it Im used to ImageStudio...

Well at least today I got my idea down I just have to make the storyboards now and come up with some good script.

Well, as long as you are happy with the application you are using, dont worry.
Its just that many people use moviemaker or SMA/Anasazi, which do have some disadvantages (such as project management, editing, and so on).

Heck, I even made a short clip with my cellphone ;-) Its possible with almost anything.

Make sure you'll keep us up to date (snapshots!) :-)

At 4/2/06 08:11 AM, madknt wrote: NG experiance calculator.
it is that long!!

i dont think that thing is right...