I love this in the sense of how much work was put into it. I apriciate all the work you put into it exept your stop-motion. It worked for the consept of this video but it lacked life. Like at the beginning, it was basicly snap shots that were plopped together, and if there was any movement, it went from one spot to another and that was it.
I did notice though that by the end you tried to work on that but it still needs some work. Stop-motion is probobly the most time consuming styles of film so I can understand why you may have, or wanted to rushed it, but for future projects, try to put some life into it.
Also, what was the hardest scene to do? I can see the filming around the hand at the end to be a bit of a hastle but was there a scene where your clay wasn't cooperating? or kept falling? I'm interested.
Well there were definitely the time constraints that everyone knows about but one of the big reasons why the puppet's movement seems stiff is because I didn't have a program to help me capture the stop motion frames.
With the program I can toggle between frames to see how good the movement is and to see if anything unnecessary moved. I didn't have the benefit of the program so I had to do it all by eye and the small touch screen of my camcorder.
In terms of stop motion, the toughest scene was the movements that Rat Man does that was supposed to loop "seamlessly." Like the frames where he's running and the part where he drags himself on the ground while facing the camera. I was surprised they looped as "good" as they did. If I had the time I would've re-filmed those frames but my time for the video and my time in Korea was short. (I had the perfect set up in the living room of my family's apartment.)
In terms of compositing, the part where he falls through the ground was the hardest. I had to mask out where I wanted the ground chunks to be "in front" of Rat Man and the Companion Cube as they fell. Spent days masking those layers in After Effects.
I hope this response is helpful.
(also if you want to see the puppet with more of a "life" to it, check out a short I did on my youtube entitled "To Rid Oneself of Ennui." I'm probably going to test out the limits of this puppet more during school to see exactly how much I can express through it.)
(inside joke?) I'm going to guess that the CR! is supposted to be CRAP, but they get so angry that they just yell.
It's really cool how you put everybodies personalities into this project. I'm guessing that everybody is happy for it and that you are happy that it's done.
I was on the bottom floor and I jumped right under the mine on the floor above me and it killed me. I didn't try it again to see if it would do it again but I didn't like it. :)
Liked the simple art that you put into this, and the controling took a bit to get used to.
It was hard to follow because there was no reference or focal point to follow the characters. So it was hard to tell how fast the characters were really moving or how far they have travelled from start to finish. You tried to show this with the background moving and sliding by the characters, but there is no frontal focal point to help the audience follow the action.
I don't know if the characters ended up in the same spot or ended up 200 yard from where they started.
I thought this was very easy and didn't get any real challenge out of it. I was able to beat all the levels within 2 tries and never had a problem that stumped me.
On levels 25 and 26 I was able to beat without using all the pieces. On level 30 I created a loop to see what would happen and after it told me "The level contains an infinite loop. Please try another setup." then the music started to dub play over itself.
I have 2 glitches. one can happen at any time. After you die, if you click the hawk (W) botton before the your guy refreshes to the beginning, it will do a weird move both of them but the hawk is the leader. I don't really know how to explain it but it's not hard to do. the other is on survival mode. I only did it once. If you grab onto the ledge right when the platform comes up, it will send you off the screen and to a bottomless pit. I wasn't able to do it again but it is there.
I didn't like the fact that the people just gave you all your battle moves. It just made it to easy for me. If we had to find them, and we missed one, it would bring on a little more of a chalange.
if you could lose some data core at some level and then at the next level you only start with how much you have left from the last level. Make it so you have to to make it all the way.
nice upgrades, wish I could do double upgrade like stacking damage on each other. I didn't like the color changing when I wanted to put somebody down, little annoying waiting. Nice levels. I thought the last level was way to easy. Like how to get better upgrades.
All together a solid peice of work. Not to hard to beat but difficult to master.
Polar bears live in the North Pole and penguins live in the South Pole. but we get the point.
Like the creativity in it. You went crazy with it, and it disserves the credit it's getting.
that was intence.
anyways, very nice, very smooth. I think it would be cool if after upgrading both of the same colors, another upgrade thing pops out and you can start upgrading that. also, I beleive that it would be nice to have an extra upgrade for health. not to maximize it but if you are almost dead you can click the upgrade and your health is full again. and it can work like the other upgrades where the first time you use it its 1 point the the second it's 2 points and so on.
wish to see a second pluge.
i believe that it would be better if it was drug out a bit longer. going staight to the daughter asking who was on the phone didn't give enough time for the humor to fully come out.
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Rated 4 / 5 stars September 1, 2011
Lacks something
I love this in the sense of how much work was put into it. I apriciate all the work you put into it exept your stop-motion. It worked for the consept of this video but it lacked life. Like at the beginning, it was basicly snap shots that were plopped together, and if there was any movement, it went from one spot to another and that was it.
I did notice though that by the end you tried to work on that but it still needs some work. Stop-motion is probobly the most time consuming styles of film so I can understand why you may have, or wanted to rushed it, but for future projects, try to put some life into it.
Also, what was the hardest scene to do? I can see the filming around the hand at the end to be a bit of a hastle but was there a scene where your clay wasn't cooperating? or kept falling? I'm interested.
I had a feeling someone was gonna notice that...
Well there were definitely the time constraints that everyone knows about but one of the big reasons why the puppet's movement seems stiff is because I didn't have a program to help me capture the stop motion frames.
With the program I can toggle between frames to see how good the movement is and to see if anything unnecessary moved. I didn't have the benefit of the program so I had to do it all by eye and the small touch screen of my camcorder.
In terms of stop motion, the toughest scene was the movements that Rat Man does that was supposed to loop "seamlessly." Like the frames where he's running and the part where he drags himself on the ground while facing the camera. I was surprised they looped as "good" as they did. If I had the time I would've re-filmed those frames but my time for the video and my time in Korea was short. (I had the perfect set up in the living room of my family's apartment.)
In terms of compositing, the part where he falls through the ground was the hardest. I had to mask out where I wanted the ground chunks to be "in front" of Rat Man and the Companion Cube as they fell. Spent days masking those layers in After Effects.
I hope this response is helpful.
(also if you want to see the puppet with more of a "life" to it, check out a short I did on my youtube entitled "To Rid Oneself of Ennui." I'm probably going to test out the limits of this puppet more during school to see exactly how much I can express through it.)
Rated 5 / 5 stars May 19, 2011
Very interesting and creative
(inside joke?) I'm going to guess that the CR! is supposted to be CRAP, but they get so angry that they just yell.
It's really cool how you put everybodies personalities into this project. I'm guessing that everybody is happy for it and that you are happy that it's done.
I'm very satisfied with how it came out, thanks. (A CR is a report that our residential advisor, StAndrew, gives for misconduct and stuff)
Rated 3.5 / 5 stars May 5, 2011
on level 16 or as you put it 4^2
I was on the bottom floor and I jumped right under the mine on the floor above me and it killed me. I didn't try it again to see if it would do it again but I didn't like it. :)
Liked the simple art that you put into this, and the controling took a bit to get used to.
Rated 3 / 5 stars January 24, 2011
It's ok
It was hard to follow because there was no reference or focal point to follow the characters. So it was hard to tell how fast the characters were really moving or how far they have travelled from start to finish. You tried to show this with the background moving and sliding by the characters, but there is no frontal focal point to help the audience follow the action.
I don't know if the characters ended up in the same spot or ended up 200 yard from where they started.
Rated 3 / 5 stars November 28, 2010
easy
I thought this was very easy and didn't get any real challenge out of it. I was able to beat all the levels within 2 tries and never had a problem that stumped me.
On levels 25 and 26 I was able to beat without using all the pieces. On level 30 I created a loop to see what would happen and after it told me "The level contains an infinite loop. Please try another setup." then the music started to dub play over itself.
Rated 5 / 5 stars November 10, 2010
loved
I have 2 glitches. one can happen at any time. After you die, if you click the hawk (W) botton before the your guy refreshes to the beginning, it will do a weird move both of them but the hawk is the leader. I don't really know how to explain it but it's not hard to do. the other is on survival mode. I only did it once. If you grab onto the ledge right when the platform comes up, it will send you off the screen and to a bottomless pit. I wasn't able to do it again but it is there.
I didn't like the fact that the people just gave you all your battle moves. It just made it to easy for me. If we had to find them, and we missed one, it would bring on a little more of a chalange.
Rated 5 / 5 stars October 29, 2010
that would be cool
if you could lose some data core at some level and then at the next level you only start with how much you have left from the last level. Make it so you have to to make it all the way.
nice upgrades, wish I could do double upgrade like stacking damage on each other. I didn't like the color changing when I wanted to put somebody down, little annoying waiting. Nice levels. I thought the last level was way to easy. Like how to get better upgrades.
All together a solid peice of work. Not to hard to beat but difficult to master.
Rated 4.5 / 5 stars October 27, 2010
one flaw in this
Polar bears live in the North Pole and penguins live in the South Pole. but we get the point.
Like the creativity in it. You went crazy with it, and it disserves the credit it's getting.
Rated 5 / 5 stars October 23, 2010
level 36
that was intence.
anyways, very nice, very smooth. I think it would be cool if after upgrading both of the same colors, another upgrade thing pops out and you can start upgrading that. also, I beleive that it would be nice to have an extra upgrade for health. not to maximize it but if you are almost dead you can click the upgrade and your health is full again. and it can work like the other upgrades where the first time you use it its 1 point the the second it's 2 points and so on.
wish to see a second pluge.
Rated 4 / 5 stars October 8, 2010
like it
i believe that it would be better if it was drug out a bit longer. going staight to the daughter asking who was on the phone didn't give enough time for the humor to fully come out.