Awesome.
I'm not a huge Weird Al fan, but I enjoyed the video. Keep up the good work. I agree with you about the last reviewer; I don't think he watched it. ;)
Reviews for "Lost Rhapsody 2"
CapnBob responds:
Thanks, it's pretty easy for me to tell where a lot of these reviews come from. If someone dislikes it because they haven't followed the show, it's obvious from their comments. If they just hate Weird Al and didn't notice the big link on the left that says Weird Al did the audio before they clicked the link, then I don't particularly have much sympathy for them either. And if they complain that it was short then I know they didn't even watch it.
I FOUND A SECRET!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
During certain parts of this video, one of the bad numbers will flash in red or white for maybe one second. I found two: a red 8 is on the cliff when Micheal's head is on there and I found a white 8 when that guy was playing Connect 8 in the crazy house. How many can you find???
CapnBob responds:
Ah, you commented on the colors... Nobody else has mentioned the color of the numbers. Perhaps those may be important somehow...
lost for lost
me gustaron las graficas i como estaba empezzando todo, hasta que puso la musica i empezaron a cantar esa cosa rara y extrana.. pero bueno fuera de eso (que es todo) estuvo muy bien xD
CapnBob responds:
¡Mis pantalones se arden! ¿Puedes dirigirme a un tocador? ¡Te doy mucho agradezco por el regalo de este burro fino!
Well made
It was very nicely animated, loved the "PWNED" in the end of the countdown. Good ole net slang humor.
CapnBob responds:
I am certainly not above going to the net slang humor when it fits! Thanks!
I have my doubts. . .
This review will probably get deleted for no apparent reason, but here I go. . .
Just recently a movie has come out in cinemas and has this same style. You stated that you drew every frame again and again, just like the new movie that came out, but I'm not assured. In the cinema movie, it took a team of animators 500 hours for a 1 minute section of their movie. I ask you this: Did you actually re-draw every frame, or simply bitmap trace this?
But by all means, this was great :D
Penboy
CapnBob responds:
Tell you what. Open up your copy of flash, import a movie file, try to do a bitmap trace on it and see what happens. There's your answer.
I'll take it as a compliment that people are having a hard time believing the amount of work involved. If you understand what you're seeing at all, though, it shouldn't be difficult to figure out. A few of the images that don't move at all are automatic bitmap traces, which have indistinct edges to everything like it's kinda blurry, and the characters bleed into the backgrounds. All the lines are jagged and angular.
The rest has crisp edges with smooth and sometimes slightly wavy lines. Those are all hand-drawn on top of photos or video. Not all of it is frame-by-frame, as that is very time-intensive. The frame-by-frame segments took about a week to do each, and had to be redrawn entirely by hand. I had to actually draw entirely new frames that don't exist in the original show in some cases, and the detail has been simplified to compensate for this.
Most of the motion in the video is a combination of hand-traced pieces of characters and free-hand drawn bodies motion-tweened. I cut a lot of corners including a few relatively unimportant still images here and there, but having a computer program draw the whole thing for me isn't one of them. I don't think it's actually possible for a program to build the animation the way I've done it. If someone can find a program that'll do it this way and get results like this, please let me know. It would save me a LOT of time!