On 11/24/2011 10:01 AM, turquoiseb wrote:
> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu<noozguru@...> wrote:
>> On 11/23/2011 10:28 PM, raunchydog wrote:
>>> --- In [email protected], Bhairitu<noozguru@> wrote:
>>>> This is my latest Captain Bebops video "Occupy the Future":
>>>> http://youtu.be/EuVxn0RdLNc
>>>>
>>>> Enjoy!
>>> Thanks for posting. I like that your characters are from
>>> all walks of life. My favorite video on your channel is
>>> "Night of the Dreadful Republicans" Very funny. What
>>> program did you use to make that?
>> Thanks. For "Night" I used iClone 4 for 3D scenes and Crazy Talk
>> Animator for the 2D. They're from Reallusion.com. I use Magix
>> Movie Edit Pro 17 to assemble those files. With this video I did
>> one thing a little different and that was to upload a super high
>> quality HD version of it that was almost 300 MB. Seemed to make
>> a real difference especially with the low resolution versions.
>> YouTube re-encodes the file for all resolutions.
> Neat. Good work. For those of us who have never gotten
> into computer animation and music creation, how long do
> you reckon such a project took you? I can only imagine
> that it was considerable, and I for one appreciate your
> efforts. I've forwarded many of your Captain Bebop
> episodes to friends, and had them say that they did
> the same thing. Don't know if that contributed to your
> hit count or not, but I hope so.
>
> Like Raunchy, I'm a big fan of the Repub Zombies as well.
> It just seems the proper metaphor. I mean, looking at the
> whole scene from afar, from over here in Pussiesland, it
> seems that the Repubs are beyond embarrassment. I had a
> chat over dinner the other night in which we all (3
> Americans, 1 Brit) agreed that the current crop of Repub
> Presidential hopefuls make Dubya look like a member of
> Mensa. One can only imagine who they'll be promoting in
> the next election.
>
> There is a point at which "bottom of the barrel" becomes
> so obvious that people stop dipping into it. The American
> Republican Party, in its ardor to supplicate the 1% who
> keep them in fancy cars and fancy houses and fancy titles,
> seems to have dipped below that point. They seem to really
> not *know* how appalling these people are.
Thanks. That video probably with music about 12 hours of work over 3
days. Sometimes it's deciding that I don't like a music track and
re-recording that track. I made one motion file for the chorus to rock
back and forth in time to the music so it was merely loading in those
characters, applying the motion, in some cases changing the faces and
adding a prop. I'm always open to figuring out ways to do these in less
time.
Being in the software industry I've always felt that iClone in fact most
of the Reallusion products were a bit imbalanced. I think iClone is a
hack built over a hack. There appears to be some design flaws that
probably require a complete rewrite. Those flaws also make the product
less friendly for casual users. One thing they did is instead of
creating additional content themselves they opened it to customers to
create content and sell it on their site. Neat idea but some of those
artists overvalue to their work and probably don't sell much. The
orange hooded sweatshirt was purchased but the person had the good sense
to price it right.
One of the hard things to do in iClone is the motion animation and now
they sell a plugin that works with the Xbox Kinect which allows users to
do their own motion capture. I haven't upgraded to that yet but it
should make the animation easier.
I still go with my theory that the Republicans don't want the White
House in 2012 because the economy will be further in the dump by then
and not salvageable by anyone. They don't want that on their watch so
they're running these freak shows ("debates") every week. I know I
sound "doom and gloom" but anyone who has learned something about
economics will see the mess. I can just imagine a scifi short story
opening with aliens talking about what went wrong with the civilization
on earth. And I think you have to think about it from that perspective
to get a handle on it.
Thanks for forwarding the episodes. Funny thing is that YouTube has a
"monetize" icon next to "Republican Cry Babies" which means that I can
put paid ads over the video. I thought that was a weird selection other
than maybe the GOP wants to buy ads to put over it. ;-)
