Baby Jesus just spoke his first word

[LMNO]

I dunno.  I cleaned the cache, shut it down, left it alone for a couple of days, and it started working again.

Digidesign voodoo, ITT.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Here's what the fans are saying:

An ugly CGI baby is supposedly Jesus.  His voice is an adult's,
electronically pitched high with a distorter.  He's pissed off, ranting
about people not keeping the commandments, and says "fuck" in damned near
ever sentence.

If you're laughing just reading that, you'll love the video.  Other than the
things I mentioned, there's little if any actual humor content.

Remind me nevar to google my own work 

[LMNO]

I dunno.  I cleaned the cache, shut it down, left it alone for a couple of days, and it started working again.

Digidesign voodoo, ITT.

Oh, and apparently, ProTools doesn't like it when you name the audio files using "#" in the title.


LMNO
- Tried calling something "Guitar - F#" and crashed the system.

[P3nT4gR4m]

I've just spent 10 minutes agonising over exactly what a babies eyebrows are doing by way of adding expression to the line "Don't fucking say it", with the emphasis firmly on squeezing out maximum lulz.

I'm particularly pleased with the little 'uppy-downy' thing I have going on at the end.

Do I have a problem? That really needs professional attention?

Like urgently?

Welcome to the inside of my head.

The fact that I'm writing this, in realtime, from the scene of the impending travesty, should be indicator enough that ANY excuse is a good enough excuse to draw my attention away from this project right now. I HATE BABY JESUS!!!!

There - I've gone and said it. If they send my ass to hell it'll be a fucking holiday compared to this.

It can be fun tho. As long as I keep expanding the boundaries of what I can do with this video format, it keeps me ticking over, in that wierd state, somewhere between laughing out loud and pulling my hair out in frustration.

The infomercial is rough. It looks rougher every time I watch it back. I'm hoping a lot of it is down to accidental format switch - Jittery pal - ntsc conversion. I'm hoping to fix it over the weekend but It's prolly my best effort so far and so much richer in the creating that (if there ever was any doubt) I'm, 100% decided on dumping the studio format, after this episode, in favour of a more multi-camera, story driven format which, if you've been following this thread, will include such characters as pope ratty and the dalek guy.

This not only keeps it interesting for me but hopefully for my audience as well since, basically, I'm asking you to look at a small, potato shaped thing for, like 3 solid minutes. I'd be pissed if I had to do that. Come to think of it I've had to look at it for a fucking sight longer! I know what you guys will feel like in a hundred years time and, trust me, it aint a goodvibe.

I don't think the original format had much more life in it. I'm wondering if that died somewhere during this episode. As usual I'm unable to watch it objectively so only feedback will tell. Gloves off - stuff everyone if you don't mind. Anyone with a better practical knowledge of visual comedy (read - almost anyone other than me probably) let me know where I fucked up  and shit like that. I might hate you for pissing on my parade but the chances are it'll help me produce better content. Plus I hate most of you anyway, so what the fuck?

So all that's left, before the hype machine kicks in, like a steroid pumped up, gigantic hypeasaurus, is just under one minute of expression animation and a recompile of existing footage - couple of hours work, then a couple more, tweaking and it's announcement time.

All going well, sunday release. Impatience dictates, if it's done before then it'll be posted before then.

(LMNO - will you be able to get the sound file done if I send you it 2morrow morning?)

[LMNO]

Maybe.  I might have a chance Friday evening.

What needs to be done?  Just the standard eq, etc?

[P3nT4gR4m]

I think so. Is it okay for you to work with a pitch shifted, reverbed version this time and kinda smooth out some clipping? Cos I kinda forgot you'd have to process it and I applied the shift and verb cos it's better for me to listen to when I'm animating. Problem is I did a lot of hack and slash and I'd have to do the same to the original, over again to make it fit.

For obvious reasons I'd rather not do this but if it's more hassle than the time you've got available allows then I'll wear it. Should only take me a couple of hours.

[LMNO]

If the original track is clipped, I'm not sure how much I can do.


BTW, That Other Guy is a Berklee wanker, too.  He might have better equipment.  YOu should PM him & see what's up.

[That One Guy]

Sadly, my personal equipment is non-existent (I keep up my skills with friends' gear) in favor of concentrating on my Bass rig (Ashdown 600W amp, Eden 4x10 cab and 5-string Fender Jazz atm) since all this gear is crazy expensive.

Although I am contemplating picking up either an MBox setup or an 002 depending on money situations in the near future.

In short, for now LMNO is your best bet, but definitely keep me in mind as this is the kind of thing I do pretty well 

[P3nT4gR4m]

If the original track is clipped, I'm not sure how much I can do.


BTW, That Other Guy is a Berklee wanker, too.  He might have better equipment.  YOu should PM him & see what's up.

TBH I'm not even sure if it's clipping, might be some kinda rough edge that's coming out wierd in the pitch shift. Whatever it is reverb and pitch seem to bring it out, but they did that a tad in the last one you edited, post edit too. Maybe if you have a look at the sample you'll have a better idea

[LMNO]

Cool.  I'll PM you with my email addy.

If you can, try to get it to me before 4:00 EST.

[P3nT4gR4m]

Episode 2 (sucks less than ep 1 because it doesn't last quite as long)

In the middle of youtube upload, meantime you can get it HERE

[Thurnez Isa]

 

I hope I was the first one that got to see it

[Payne]

Think you got there just before I did.

Filled with fuckin WIN!

Cheers silly!

And I think I just found the only Lily Allen song I give a fuck about...

Also:

[P3nT4gR4m]

Update - still cant upload this fkin thing to youtube, audio keeps going out of sync.

Try again after some shuteye

[Triple Zero]

that was freakin' awesome!!

just one thing, LMNO, you did the sound again, right? is it in any way possible to do a version without the church/bathroom/stadium level reverb? because i seriously miss about one in every five words because the echo of the previous syllable is drowning it out! maybe i'm a bit deaf, maybe i'd like subtitles, but i really need to point my ears to the max (how do you say that) to keep track of the talking.
it was the same with the LHX+beat you did some time ago. and some of the ear-fatigue rants, even if they don't have too much reverb, often feature so much background sounds it makes the actual speech hard to follow. i can imagine it's not as apparent if you've heard the speech already 15 times, and can basically dream it, but you wouldn't want to force your audience to have to listen twice, just to catch all the words, right?