http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KMK1BJ9HSw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KMK1BJ9HSw)
Needs moar outraged Xtians
should have put christianity in the tags
:lol:
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on January 16, 2007, 12:00:19 AM
should have put christianity in the tags
:lol:
.
When I've finished ep1 of Teh Baby Jesus Show I will. This is just a concept test to see if I could superimpose my mouth on the little bast but I was so chuffed I thot I'd share.
Update - nearly finished the trailer.
LMNO - check your pm - could use your expertise
:mittens:
Woo!
And while browsing, I found HIMEOBS propaganda as well: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ut8U1_yX2w
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 17, 2007, 09:02:38 PM
Update - nearly finished the trailer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvnce8l-Un8
LMNO - check your pm - could use your expertise
Check yours - I'll see what I can do.
Spent the whole day doing nothing but the BJ Show. :banana:
I've completely remodelled the head in hires so it looks better in the closeup shots, as you can see from these comparison pics
Note these are caps of the rigged model, in After Effects preview window, not shopped composites.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/beforeandafterheadshot.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/beforeandaftercloseup.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/baeye.jpg)
Teh head itself is 1342 X 1464 pixels and the red bits of the eye are 121x115 (not quite round)
I've also begun working on the Manger of Doom. Believe it or not the manger was taken from a really real chapel, called the chapel of bones. Google it if you don't believe me.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/asleepinamangerofdoom.jpg)
this is actually the very first frame of episode 1
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/BJS1.jpg)
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/Bang.jpg)
Silly how was that clip less disturbing than Daves avatars?
(other than that it was my lord talking)
Baby J is righteous, Davedim's avi is heinous and blasphemy.
:thanks:
That screentest was fucking hilarious. The eye movements are a crackup!
This is fucking awesome.
I want to write for it.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 22, 2007, 05:53:15 AM
This is fucking awesome.
I want to write for it.
But dude, you spit hate. Baby Jesus is all about teh lurve.
srsly - check your pm
It's gotten a bit complicated. In case anyone still gives a fuck - this is what I'm trying to get my head around here.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/WIP.jpg)
the Baby Jesus Show (sounded like a good idea at the time) :x
This Baby Jesus Show stuff is srs bidness, Silly.
You're raising our expectations, you know.
Quote from: Jenne on January 24, 2007, 10:24:00 PM
This Baby Jesus Show stuff is srs bidness, Silly.
You're raising our expectations, you know.
I see my tactic is working - Lay on the hype til they shiver with anticipation...
...then fire up the disappointment and bask in the hate.
Hey, didja get the tracks I sent?
Aye - didn't u get my email?
Lemme check.
Nope.
PM it to me.
Quote from: LMNO on January 25, 2007, 04:15:06 PM
Nope.
PM it to me.
I'll be home in 25mins. Chances are I forgot to hit send/receive before I went to bed last night.
*edit* done - check ur im
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KMK1BJ9HSw
LMNO - He's like free THX!
Thanks dude :)
It's sunday 28th Jan 2007.
I've got a headcold. I'm sitting at my pc enjoying waves of hot then shivery, a pallid, sticky sweat has permeated my entire being. I'm reminded of Crowleys description of the holy oil in Book4.
There are 9565 frames in the video of my lips I recorded yesterday. So far I've done 1701 of them. Moving 5-10 frames forward, till the shape of the lips is completely different to the mask then moving the mask, 1 point at a time til it matches up. If I'm lucky, when I move back through the frames I've skipped, the mask will follow the lines of the lips as they move, due to a process called 'tweening'. When the little bastard has got a lot to say this is never the case and you end up having to edit each frame.
I'm watching freezeframes of my own lips, saying things I wrote a week ago, but I just can't get away from seeing the little baby. I'm watching my own mouth and hating the cartoon character that's stolen it. Do I really want to go through with this? Is the shit even funny? Or, as some shitty little insecurity demon, all but beaten to a pulp, in the darkest recesses of my brain, keeps telling me; "Nobody is laughing with you asshole! It's a stupid pathetic, home made animation of the most tedious script ever penned. Those people who keep saying nice things about it are your friends ffs - their job is to encourage you and be extra fkin nice about every stupid piece of shit thing you do."
I give the little bastard another kick in the ribs before shutting off his incessant droning. I try to remember how funny I found the shit a week ago when I was writing it. Back when the words were just popping into my head and I was cackling like a madman, writing them down as I heard them for the first time in the solo dictation thing that is the creative process. Before I'd read it, again and again, making tweaks and shit that had ceased to make any kind of coherent sense to me about wednesday. Once something is done my objectivity flys out the window. The text is just black shapes on my monitor.
The baby Jesus show, when I watch the final cut, will make me laugh about as much as my best friends funeral. I'll have heard every joke a thousand times. I'll hate every line, the way it's delivered, I'll despise every stupid video effect, the lame animations and background effects. To put it bluntly, when I watch this it will suck! It'll probably suck more than anything else I have ever watched. I'll watch the Baby Jesus Show before anyone else in the whole world and I'll know just exatcly how much it is possible to hate it.
When I started this I was doing it for me. I'd bought a camcorder about 6 months ago and it'd hardly been out its bag. I had the idea for masking lips, talking then superimposing them on some dumb baby's head meme I'd come up with. Sometimes I just want to play with this kinda stuff and see what it looks like. When I saw him roar like the MGM lion it was exactly like I had imagined it would be, all wrong and kinda creepy but funny at the same time. I got excited! Note to self: Maybe lithium is the answer after all. Inspiration struck and my train of thought derailed into daydreams about a whole 10 min show with the little bastard I'd created ranting and raving.
Most normal people would prolly have thought "dumb idea. Thats too much work that I don't have a clue how to do." Most normal people woulda understood what a stupid proposition it was for joe fkin bloggs with no experience or training in this kinda stuff to produce something like that. To be fair tho - most normal people wouldn't be watching a 3 second clip of a baby roaring like a lion, pissing themselves laughing, knowing that they did that. Who the fuck am I trying to kid? I left the rank and file of most normal people somewhere between conception and birth, as far as I can tell. I'm not most normal people, I'm super idiot, flying through the web of possibilities that most normal people choose to ignore. I take a bite of any pie I see in any sky and 9 times out of ten it's a nice munch.
So It began with the words "I'm going to do this" and the notion of "I can't" really didn't play much of a part in it. Turns out it's easier than it looks. Funny it usually does. But fuck me is it ever boring. Next time I'm using facepaint to paint a thick green 'al johlson' circle round my lips then using chromakey technology to automatically isolate the mouth.
Yeah, I know, "What the fuck do I know about chromakeying?", right? Well I might know next to fuck all at this point in time but I'll tell you what - I'm gonna do it anyway.
you go silly! umm cheer up? :)
i can imagine the jokes and the lines getting fucking tedious if you're gonna hear them 1000s times over :-(
but i just wonder, as i've said before, see if you're going to put so many hours in it, why not spend a few of those hours on some research for finding out a way of doing this easier?
the chromakeying sounds like a great plan, and is going to save you loads of time, how about -- if not only for taking your mind off the endless tweening/masking for a while -- make a tiny teeny testrun with chromakeying for i dunno, a 5 second clip, and see if it'll be much easier or not?
that's what i always do whenever faced with a repetitive task. i'm a computerprogrammer, and repetitive tasks are not for humans but for computers/robots. when i see a repetitive task, i'll stop and think until i find some way to have a computer do it for me.
even if programming the thing takes me more time than just getting on and doing it.
and even if i'm sure i'll never ever use the program aftwards.
basically just because i'm not gonna numb my mind for that, because i'm lazy, because it sharpens my mind and generally cause it's more fun like that.
sure i can understand what you said before, doing a repetitive task can be therapy, can be meditative, but only for a while :-)
(after that while, the meditative thing is probably also good, but only if you're it for the sheer meditation concentration practice of it and not for the end result, because that's the moment you've past and go crazy :) )
also a few things:
- when chromakeying make sure the lighting is bright and clear for best masking. you can change the contrast to match the baby's lighting after you've applied the masking.
- does the lip-mask not have a "feather" option? one that fades the outline of the lip into the baby's face? if you use that you can probably cheat and use a wider mask that doesn't need to change as much.
- there must be other ways of doing this easier, except for chromakeying and feathering.
- how long is your video?
I'm actually quite happy about this. I was just kinda showing everyone the inside of my head. I reckon the c-keying is a goer but right now I know I can get this out the door by sunday if I keep doing what I'm doing so I've kinda committed myself to it. Sunday is important to me - that's the target I set. I like hitting targets. A lot of the time I'll do what I have to do to make them. This next 4-5 days is what I have to do right now and, if it turns out to be the road through hell I think it is It should be interesting. Tedium is my biggest fear and you know what they say about facing those.
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 27, 2007, 01:53:08 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KMK1BJ9HSw
LMNO - He's like free THX!
Thanks dude :)
Heh. Looks good.
Remember Silly, clever subversion is
really hard work. Don't give up the fight.
They have officially blocked Youtube at work. My existence is now meaningless.
Join the club.
Quote from: SillyCybin on January 28, 2007, 07:53:49 PM
It's sunday 28th Jan 2007.
I've got a headcold. I'm sitting at my pc enjoying waves of hot then shivery, a pallid, sticky sweat has permeated my entire being. I'm reminded of Crowleys description of the holy oil in Book4.
There are 9565 frames in the video of my lips I recorded yesterday. So far I've done 1701 of them. Moving 5-10 frames forward, till the shape of the lips is completely different to the mask then moving the mask, 1 point at a time til it matches up. If I'm lucky, when I move back through the frames I've skipped, the mask will follow the lines of the lips as they move, due to a process called 'tweening'. When the little bastard has got a lot to say this is never the case and you end up having to edit each frame.
I'm watching freezeframes of my own lips, saying things I wrote a week ago, but I just can't get away from seeing the little baby. I'm watching my own mouth and hating the cartoon character that's stolen it. Do I really want to go through with this? Is the shit even funny? Or, as some shitty little insecurity demon, all but beaten to a pulp, in the darkest recesses of my brain, keeps telling me; "Nobody is laughing with you asshole! It's a stupid pathetic, home made animation of the most tedious script ever penned. Those people who keep saying nice things about it are your friends ffs - their job is to encourage you and be extra fkin nice about every stupid piece of shit thing you do."
I give the little bastard another kick in the ribs before shutting off his incessant droning. I try to remember how funny I found the shit a week ago when I was writing it. Back when the words were just popping into my head and I was cackling like a madman, writing them down as I heard them for the first time in the solo dictation thing that is the creative process. Before I'd read it, again and again, making tweaks and shit that had ceased to make any kind of coherent sense to me about wednesday. Once something is done my objectivity flys out the window. The text is just black shapes on my monitor.
The baby Jesus show, when I watch the final cut, will make me laugh about as much as my best friends funeral. I'll have heard every joke a thousand times. I'll hate every line, the way it's delivered, I'll despise every stupid video effect, the lame animations and background effects. To put it bluntly, when I watch this it will suck! It'll probably suck more than anything else I have ever watched. I'll watch the Baby Jesus Show before anyone else in the whole world and I'll know just exatcly how much it is possible to hate it.
When I started this I was doing it for me. I'd bought a camcorder about 6 months ago and it'd hardly been out its bag. I had the idea for masking lips, talking then superimposing them on some dumb baby's head meme I'd come up with. Sometimes I just want to play with this kinda stuff and see what it looks like. When I saw him roar like the MGM lion it was exactly like I had imagined it would be, all wrong and kinda creepy but funny at the same time. I got excited! Note to self: Maybe lithium is the answer after all. Inspiration struck and my train of thought derailed into daydreams about a whole 10 min show with the little bastard I'd created ranting and raving.
Most normal people would prolly have thought "dumb idea. Thats too much work that I don't have a clue how to do." Most normal people woulda understood what a stupid proposition it was for joe fkin bloggs with no experience or training in this kinda stuff to produce something like that. To be fair tho - most normal people wouldn't be watching a 3 second clip of a baby roaring like a lion, pissing themselves laughing, knowing that they did that. Who the fuck am I trying to kid? I left the rank and file of most normal people somewhere between conception and birth, as far as I can tell. I'm not most normal people, I'm super idiot, flying through the web of possibilities that most normal people choose to ignore. I take a bite of any pie I see in any sky and 9 times out of ten it's a nice munch.
So It began with the words "I'm going to do this" and the notion of "I can't" really didn't play much of a part in it. Turns out it's easier than it looks. Funny it usually does. But fuck me is it ever boring. Next time I'm using facepaint to paint a thick green 'al johlson' circle round my lips then using chromakey technology to automatically isolate the mouth.
Yeah, I know, "What the fuck do I know about chromakeying?", right? Well I might know next to fuck all at this point in time but I'll tell you what - I'm gonna do it anyway.
yo man
animation takes crazy amounts of work
im actually learning a lot about it just reading about you documenting the process
respect due
mumble ... mumble ... tail between legs.
I'm going to have to push the release out another week. I was shooting to finish the lip masking by friday/saturday (which is still on target) but that only leaves one day for the animations. Realistically this is not likely to happen or, if it did, the results wouldn't be pretty.
LMNO it means you have mega time to fuck around with the theme tune to your hearts content. That reminds me I'm gonna need to throw some titles together too. K one week on sunday it it is.
Actually, I'm heading to DC tomorrow for that scientology wedding, and won't have time to touch it until Monday.
Except, Cain's Apocrypha to The Vengevul Testament of Eris is up next on the audio chopping block. If anything, I'll be able to get to the guitar by Wednesday.
Damn, I gotta remind myself to the intro.... That shouldn't take too long, if I can remember to do it.
If I'd known discordia was gonna result in so much work I'da joined the fkin mormons instead. :x
I challenge you to find anywhere in the Principia that any of this would be easy.
I counter challenge you to find anywhere it says you'll have to graft like a f'kin navvy
http://www.principiadiscordia.com/book/85.php
QuoteIf you want to truly live in the heart of Eris, you'll have to graft like a f'kin navvy.
I smell bull shit :joshua:
Whaddaya mean? :halo:
Well that's it. The lip mask is finished as of half an hour ago and I've animated 30 secs worth of final cut on top of that. For the record - if the chromakeying doesn't work out for me this is going to be the first and final episode. I'm not going through that again. Fkin ever! I mean point a gun at my head, I'll take the fkin bullet before I'll touch another spline control. Srsly.
congratz Silly, you got a drink waiting for ya in the OB!
Silly, I have a suggestion for one of your later animations, should you not want to kill yourself by that point.
Basically, Mental as Anything did a song called Talk to Baby Jesus. I can send you the mp3 and these are the lyrics below for lip synching
When the bricks are burning and the harbour's on fire
You're sick of pies and drugs and all your friends are liars
You can talk to Baby Jesus down Tokoroa way
He welcomes every stranger with a handshake and a good day
Comparisons are made to Bob Dylans and Hope
He's got more fans than either and he'll never bludge
your smokes
You can talk to Baby Jesus he's the man for you
Got a red silk shirt - very big - muscles too
They call him Baby Jesus 'cause he's bigger than the Pope
He's a devil with the sheilas and a darling with the blokes
He eats like a Cadilac and wrestles like a champ
He's got his own Falcon and he drives it like a tank
You can talk to him any time you like
You can talk to him any time you like
Don't go to Europe for a caravan tour
It won't do much good for you and you
Take the great South Road past old Papakura
And talk to Baby Jesus 'cause he'll tell you what to do
hell yeah - email me the mp3, I'll stick it in my todo folder. Another thing I'd thought about was the intro to the rocky horrors picture show - that's got the lip synch already done :-D
Done, just sent it now.
Nice one. Dunno about the lip synch - be kinda tricky but the tune is defo getting used. On another note - anyone seen Teh Ballad of Ricky Bobby? Mega BJ Lulz in there!
Well I just watched ep1 (minus opening titles and a couple of spot sound fx)
As expected I hated every second of it but I've got a feeling it's kinda okay for a first attempt. All going well I'm on target for Sunday release.
Stay tuned...
I was going to push you for sooner release, but I suppose it's only fitting that it come out on Sunday.
We need a jesus smiley.
(http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a139/ThornIs/dancing2.gif)
(http://moblog.colorado.edu/archives/24/jesus.gif)
Mainly because i have absolutely no patience threshold and partly because I had no other way of showing it to a mate who I haven't spoken to for ages I've gone and released it early. Yeah sue me!
As expected the show totally sucks but the titles are quite good and LMNO put in a sterling performance.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ2p0aTL8r4
humm...
not working for me
just starts then stops
You broke it!
Not working for both of you?
you tube is blocked at work.
and i broke it
:oops:
silly,
the show is funny. keep making more of these. oh and get yourself some merchandise.
:D
its seriously not working for me
i gotta take off to work right now and do some cloak and dagger union politics
if you get the time silly could you upload it to megaupload.com so i could download and watch... please
Quote from: Mangrove on February 09, 2007, 05:09:17 PM
silly,
the show is funny. keep making more of these. oh and get yourself some merchandise.
:D
Cheers. Get ur merchandise here: http://www.cafepress.com/redeeminator
There's only 1 design available right now but I make $1.23 on every one I sell so if I sell enough I can upgrade my account and add millions of new designs. Capitalism FTW
OMFG! 23!!!!!
Couldn't resist. TBH technically I make 1.24 but it was the only way to get all the prices to come out at 23 cents
Quote from: Thurnez Isa on February 09, 2007, 05:12:56 PM
its seriously not working for me
i gotta take off to work right now and do some cloak and dagger union politics
if you get the time silly could you upload it to megaupload.com so i could download and watch... please
Done http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YVHSZ9Y2 its a big fecker tho - 64 megs if anyone else is interested this is the HQ version before youtube raped and pillaged the quality
:lol:
i really liked it
classic
thought commandment 4 was really well done
Fuckin' A.
2 Days early to boot.
His voice freaked me out at first, because it sounded like Verne Troyer (who gets on my nerves), but the material carried it.
Pat Robertson, however, found it in poor taste.
Especially the bit about murder. The Baby Jesus is not a hypocrite!
Anyhoo... :mittens:
Heh. "I swear on my mother's intact hymen"... that got a giggle out of me. I've linked it via my LJ, so at least a couple more folks will be traumatized. Probably not as many as if I didn't warn them about the language, but oh well.
i just watched the HQ version, it's FUCKING SWOTE/AMAZING/AWESOME/ETC
have some scrittens:
(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g213/05136/scrittens.jpg)(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g213/05136/scrittens.jpg)(http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g213/05136/scrittens.jpg)
btw, the "the baby jesus does not find that shit amusing" gag worked really well IMO.
My computer and sound are having a troublesome relationship of late. Once I've scared enough IT students into fixing it, I'll watch and give applause.
A lil' late (my internets are broken), but I loled. Great job.
New Baby Jesus show supporting cast announcement thing!
I'm in the middle (read 3rd line) of episode 2 but I'm hoping to start featuring these guys around ep3 (like mr attention deficit is gonna pull of 3)
Any ideas for things you like/you hate/"he'd look better in a wetsuit"/suggestions for superpowers - laser eyes, nostrils of fire... etc, then let me know and I'll steal your ideas and palm them off as my own.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/tehEmperor.jpg)
Teh Emperor has a mouth that works like a ventriloquist dummy (dunno if that counts as a superpower but it's sure as hell easy to animate so he's been giftet that ability anyhoo)
Next we have the prophet mohammed, whom I think might work as an action figure, with fully posable limbs and realistic flashing bomb timer.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/Mohammed.jpg)
I tried goatse, you gotta believe me, and tubgirl, but there was just no way I could see to even hint that it was meant to be mohammed. Also by choosing a tusken raider I've cut down on the animation required for speaking. He'll prolly just vibrate, like a nokia, when he's ready to go off.
When he does go boom boom he will summon allah akbar
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/AdmiralAllah.jpg)
Who's face will magjguikelly appear in the smoke
damn that pope looks awesome
i wish i could be a pope
o wait
Don't worry; I expect you'll get fatwas enough for this depiction of Mohammed.
OFUK DOOM
Sweet Silly. :D
silly,
i would like the pope's little beanie hat to have a propeller on it.
otherwise, excellent job.
as for mohammed. well....it was nice knowing you. perhaps once they've cut your head off on the internet, we can posthumously use the footage for episode 4.
"allah akbar"
:lulz:
Quote from: Mangrove on February 22, 2007, 02:42:38 PM
silly,
i would like the pope's little beanie hat to have a propeller on it.
otherwise, excellent job.
as for mohammed. well....it was nice knowing you. perhaps once they've cut your head off on the internet, we can posthumously use the footage for episode 4.
Take a fucking sight more than a couple of million raving turbaniac's to shut me up. I pwn seven shades of shit out those retard fucks!
so is that a 'no' to the propeller idea? :lol:
Quote from: Mangrove on February 22, 2007, 08:16:08 PM
so is that a 'no' to the propeller idea? :lol:
Actually I think I will use it for the dramatic entrance. But if you're gonna claim it was you're idea you're living in a dreamworld :evil:
Quote from: SillyCybin on February 22, 2007, 10:35:51 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on February 22, 2007, 08:16:08 PM
so is that a 'no' to the propeller idea?  :lol:
Actually I think I will use it for the dramatic entrance. But if you're gonna claim it was you're idea you're living in a dreamworld  :evil:
i don't want your filthy royalty cheques, anyway!   :p
ps. if you could get the pope to fly in, like he was his very own pope-o-copter, that might be quite fun.
Quote from: Mangrove on February 23, 2007, 03:02:24 AM
Quote from: SillyCybin on February 22, 2007, 10:35:51 PM
Quote from: Mangrove on February 22, 2007, 08:16:08 PM
so is that a 'no' to the propeller idea? :lol:
Actually I think I will use it for the dramatic entrance. But if you're gonna claim it was you're idea you're living in a dreamworld :evil:
i don't want your filthy royalty cheques, anyway! :p
ps. if you could get the pope to fly in, like he was his very own pope-o-copter, that might be quite fun.
When you said 'propeller' it was the first thing that popped into my head
Well I got my face paints today and lo and behold the chromakey seems to work. Totally different look from ep 1 but I guess that's progress for ya.
*Warning* this clip may creep you out completely so I added michelle marsh in the background. If you find yourself feeling uneasy just focus on teh blonde.
CLICKY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZemE6p3lKCE)
I find you dont really sound scottish
:sad:
whoa that in fact almost looks better than ep1, sort of.
btw did you paint your lips black/blueish for ep1 or was that edited afterwards?
I shot ep1 in really crap light and my lips just kinda came out that colour in the edit. With the ch-key I have to shoot in good light or it doesn't work right, hence the song about teh bathroom - only place bright enough in my house.
And I do have a scottish accent (honest guv) I just don't tend to use it much.
YAY - That is fucking awesome.
just saw ep 1. It was cute. Props on making something.
Ep2 is more than half way there. Without giving away too much I had a complicated montage seq to do (always wanted to do one of those since I watched Team America) That's wrapped now so I just got the holy brat part which, thanks to chroma, should take a lot less of my time than the first one and then (hopefully) Kaou Suu will have her part done and I can drop that in and release. I'm on hodilay next week so, all going well, I'll be releasing next sunday.
LMNO - I'll have some hissy audio files for ya midweek if you can help me out again
I'm having some troubles with my ProTools, but I'll see what I can do.
Me being the lazy fuckhead that I am I opted to spend most of this week shitfaced on birthday beer and playing ps3 with a joint hanging out my mouth rather than get busy with redeeminator. Good news is I recorded the lipsync today and am just about done with masking and keying. Means I'll be pushing out release one final week - Sunday 14th april.
Suu - need video imminently if possible.
*update - here's me in my 'makeup', getting into character :lulz:
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/lipcap.jpg)
suu can't reliably read you here since --afaik-- she is still having troubles with this server having banninated her IP
Hey LMNO - what's the trouble you're having with ProTools? I might be able to help with troubleshooting.
AAAAHHHHGHGHH
ANCIENT MUMMY CURSE....
CAN'T.... RESIST.... MSPAINT...!
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a95/discordman/avatar/lipcap.jpg)
*panting and wheezing*
SILLY I MADE A NEW AVATAR FOR YUO
EDIT: MYSELF
Quote from: That One Guy on April 05, 2007, 06:19:18 PM
Hey LMNO - what's the trouble you're having with ProTools? I might be able to help with troubleshooting.
"ProTools has unexpectedly quit."
Mac or PC version? Are you running a lot of plug-ins at once? Sometimes it just quits rather than gives the memory error if you're overloading the processor while not running out of RAM. Alternately, you might want to defragment the files since ProTools can get wonky if it has to skip around the disk a lot while reading the sound files. Worst case scenario is reinstalling ProTools. What version are you running?
Mac, 6.4 LE, quits upon opening the program.
Bought the original protools for 9.0, upgraded to osx, can't unintsall/re-install because the mac doens't have "classic" on it to re-install & upgrade.
Basically, I need to get a digirack with ProTools for 10.4, but I'm strapped for cash.
Hmmmmm ... generally I've had version compatability issues pop up while it's doing the plug-in loading part. Is that where it's crashing (IE, before it finishes loading ProTools it crashes - no menus etc.)? Has it worked since you upgraded to OSX or has it been an issue ever since the upgrade?
I'm not as familiar with bridging the pre- and post-OSX Mac versions unfortunately.
It's been working farily well for the past few years, and just recently would crash immediately upon opening the program.
Any other programs installed or plug-ins installed recently then? If so, try removing them and see if that helps. If that's not it, maybe back up all the sound files on CD/DVD or portable drive so ProTools isn't looking at anything that might have gotten corrupted. AFAIK ProTools loads the files of the last session you ran, and if any of those files got FUBARed that might be causing the issue.
Good to know. I was in the middle of slicing up samples, and the comp may have gotten confused. I'll clear everything out & see what happens.
You might end up getting a whole bunch of "File X not found" errors - you should be able to just hit OK about a thousand times and get ProTools to load once it's done not finding what you put somewhere else. If you DO get that error a bunch, that's a good sign that that was the problem, rather than a plug-in or other program causing the crashing.
Yeah, no new plug-ins for me.
I'll see how it works out.
I could still use a digirack, tho'.
Couldn't we all. I got super spoiled in college using 888 racks and a pair of OS2 digital consoles. Scaling back to the 002 (or even the M1 2-channel in/out "portable" unit) was so painful. When I graduated I had a brand new G3 (when THAT was brand new) and a 4-channel in/out card that could only handle 8 tracks of playback at a time. A few years back a friend of mine got a new G5 with the 002 rack and we did a dozen songs for the band we were all in at the time.
Still workable, but ... :|
If only I had a spare $20k lying around.
Y'know what spoiled me?
That fucking Lexi-whatever-it-was reverb/echo machine that needed an entire separate room for itself and you could dial in with that playskool-looking remote.
Goddam, that had some of the tastiest reverbs imaginable.
Oooooh ... Lexicon reverbs. The best there are. There are Lexi reverb plug-ins now that do an absolutely AMAZING job. Pricey, but if you can get your hands on them (not that I'm advocating stealing the plug-ins or anything like that ... not at all ... not me ... no way) they are WELL worth it.
Silly,
Baby Jesus probably should have a Scottish accent.
Mang'
Quote from: Mangrove on April 05, 2007, 09:19:24 PM
Silly,
Baby Jesus probably should have a Scottish accent.
Mang'
Blasphemy.
In fact, I think Silly should learn Aramaic.
I know aramaic. But my audience is too dumb to read subtitles so I did it in generic american.
(did I just say that out loud?)
I'm all set for my close-up, damnit. I just need my cameraman to dismount his hobbyhorse for more than a piss break and tuna melt.
I think Mang has something. Just once, randomly, BJ should drop into some whiney glaswegian ned accent like he's been posessed. In fact, how about BJ's little 'pal' Beelzebaby(?) being Scottish.
I still haven't settled on a voice for akbar. Or maybe Ratty (was thinking something along the lines of nazi germany but ned could work.
Quote from: Kaou Suu on April 05, 2007, 10:13:41 PM
I'm all set for my close-up, damnit. I just need my cameraman to dismount his hobbyhorse for more than a piss break and tuna melt.
I have no idea why, but i found this post to be oddly arousing.
It was the tuna melt, wasn't it?
i'm afraid it might have been the hobby horse and the implied "mounting" of it
STFU, you ruined mah funnay.
You'll never know...
::fap::
Quote from: Kaou Suu on April 06, 2007, 04:27:49 PMSTFU, you ruined mah funnay.
i COULD have said it was the piss break, you know..
Golden shower, itt?
Quote from: Kaou Suu on April 06, 2007, 04:34:23 PMGolden shower, itt?
for your close-up appearance in the babyJ vid?
go for it
it could be the combination of any number of sexual fascinations, each of which in itself is insufficient, that as a sum total are arousing.
Example: nearly naked girl yanks rope attached to right foot to expose her vagina. Guy takes giant piece of frozen meat hanging from a hook and touches it to her vagina. Girl screams, meat removed, meat reaplied, repeat.
Do it on stage for additional effect.
Sounds like someone found the 99th mind archives.
Quote from: saint aini on April 06, 2007, 04:47:47 PM
it could be the combination of any number of sexual fascinations, each of which in itself is insufficient, that as a sum total are arousing.
Example: nearly naked girl yanks rope attached to right foot to expose her vagina. Guy takes giant piece of frozen meat hanging from a hook and touches it to her vagina. Girl screams, meat removed, meat reaplied, repeat.
Do it on stage for additional effect.
I'd ask for pics, but I'm at work.
Quote from: Kaou Suu on April 06, 2007, 05:06:52 PM
Quote from: saint aini on April 06, 2007, 04:47:47 PM
it could be the combination of any number of sexual fascinations, each of which in itself is insufficient, that as a sum total are arousing.
Example: nearly naked girl yanks rope attached to right foot to expose her vagina. Guy takes giant piece of frozen meat hanging from a hook and touches it to her vagina. Girl screams, meat removed, meat reaplied, repeat.
Do it on stage for additional effect.
I'd ask for pics, but I'm at work.
There's video.
I ought to come up with a few schticks like that.
www.99thmind.com
Obviously NSFW
Silly, my friend is being a twat about filming me. He doesn't think that the Mini DV will be sufficient and that I can't convert it from NTSC to PAL.
I TOLD him that you are doing this for Youtube, so that it doesn't fucking matter, but yeah...Unless I find a camera soon I don't know if I can pull this off.
If it helps any I'm mastering in ntsc format, the lipcap was shot on pal mini-dv and most of the source footage was ripped from various 16:9 and 4:3 source clips.
Format really isn't an issue here, I'm using everything from hd-pal to 320x200 15fps
I think he's just trying to get out of doing it...Do you think you can find some ditzy stock photo and add lips? I can at least still record my voice.
TBH it's not the end of the world I can run okay without your segment - this is gonna sound harsh but tbh if I can't get the video there's really no point in going with a voice over, since the whole segment is VO anyway, I was going to use your bit to break that up but I can just as easy cut it short.
Anyway don't beat yourself up over it. I never leave myself relying on other people to pull something off so there was always a contingency there - FFS don't worry about fucking the whole thing up or anything. I got it covered. You tried your best I appreciate it anyway.
If you are interested in doing a VO seg in the next ep tho I got a hell infomercial in the pipeline that I'd be more than happy to give you a crack at. I'm sure by the time this is over people will be getting sick of the sound of my voices :)
I'm totally in for PSA. :evil: I did a mock one in my audio production class back in college. I have to see if I can find it. It started like, "This is for all you low-life, scum-sucking dirtbags out there..."
Quote from: Kaou Suu on April 13, 2007, 12:24:50 AM
I'm totally in for PSA. :evil: I did a mock one in my audio production class back in college. I have to see if I can find it. It started like, "This is for all you low-life, scum-sucking dirtbags out there..."
Or, you could do something like this: hxxp://www.99thmind.com/html/csl.html
Shit, aini, I know you like my friends' old work, but really.
Also: what about mini cell phone movies?
Quote from: LMNO on April 13, 2007, 01:50:03 PM
Shit, aini, I know you like my friends' old work, but really.
Also: what about mini cell phone movies?
does she have any new work?
I'm very much inspired by her and The Zombie Cheerleader to plot my own short film.
She's putting together a reel to shop around for work, so maybe. I'll ask her about it.
Best PSA EVAR:
http://kaousuu.net/AMVs/PSA2002.wma
I'm the female voice. Obviously. I know there's a lot of loops and such, it was an assignment and we had to do so many things in 1 minutes time. This way you can hear my voice, Silly.
Update.
Bet yuo all thought this bastard was dead huh? Not so I'm afraid. I just had to get my motivation back. And also some teething troubles with facepaint. Next time I do my chin too! In fact prolly my whole face (eyes included) just in case. I have the first minute of ep2 rendered now, plus a 4 minute sequence that I won't go into in too much detail here cos it'll spoil the surprise.
About 3-4 more minutes of BJ to animate then it should be good to go.
As usual I really can't see any redeeming features in this fucking thing, whatsoever but people said nice stuff about the last one so if they were lying to be nice then hell fucking mend them - thou shalt not bear false witness!
also: I'm glad I have 800gigs of storage on this tub cos so far this project has made a fair dent in it.
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/bj/Monster1.jpg)
Oh, I got my ProTools running again, if you need any audio processed.
Slight threadjack - what ended up being the issue with the ProTools?
Back on track - can't wait to take a look at the next episode Silly :mrgreen:
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.
Here's what the fans are saying:
Quote
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 :cry:
Quote from: LMNO on April 23, 2007, 08:22:24 PM
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.
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?)
Maybe. I might have a chance Friday evening.
What needs to be done? Just the standard eq, etc?
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.
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.
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 8)
Quote from: LMNO on April 26, 2007, 08:50:42 PM
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
Cool. I'll PM you with my email addy.
If you can, try to get it to me before 4:00 EST.
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 (http://www.p3nt4gr4m.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/video/BJS%20Ep2%20final%20cut.wmv)
:lol:
I hope I was the first one that got to see it
:lol:
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:
(http://i171.photobucket.com/albums/u289/PayneAlpha/sillyshirt.jpg)
Update - still cant upload this fkin thing to youtube, audio keeps going out of sync.
Try again after some shuteye
:mittens:
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?
I didn't do the verb. Silly did that, & the pitch shift, before he sent it to me.
"Ya works wiff what ya gots."
okay
Also, I hear ya about the stuff in the rants. Then again, I'm hacking it together in about 15 minutes.
I'm not getting any sound on the one downloaded from your site, Silly.
Kaou Suu, apparently, i got your sound extra but misinterpreted it as reverb :)
LMNO: most easiest solution would be to simply have the dry sound mixed in a littlebit louder compared to the background sounds. slightly more technical (and thus more awesomer) would of course be to add a (subtle!) compressor.
Yeah, yeah. Why don't you record some rants then, and show me how it's done?
Speaking of which, I just finished up the rough version of my GothIndustrial satire, "Too Many Goddamn Vampires", so I'll probably record another rant tonight.
Quote from: LMNO on May 03, 2007, 02:15:06 PMYeah, yeah. Why don't you record some rants then, and show me how it's done?
hey, sorry i didn't mean to come across patronizing or anything. i was just trying to be helpful.
Actually, I was goading you into doing it.
No offense taken.
ah :)
since i'm working from ubuntu now, i don't really have access to soundforge (yet, gotta install WINE windows emulator some time).
it does have Audacity, i thought i heard a lot of good things about this program, but it seems awfully clunky and i had a lot of trouble to even simply extract a small loop from an mp3 in order to make myself a shiny new ringtone.
a rant. a short one. maybe :) you all can laugh at my dutch accent :)
maybe. i promise nothing.
Yeah, I'm trying to figure out Audacity myself, so my brother and I can work on some projects (hes about 600 miles away, and doesn't have ProTools. I figued we can share Audacity files over the net. Anyway...).
Hey--- you can make your own ringtones? How do you load them onto your phone?
LMNO
-thinks a wailing baby might be his new ringtone.
I've now compiled this under a dozen different codecs and every time youtube is throwing the audio out of synch. Anyone have any ideas?
Sue Google.
I figurd I had it sussed last night. Googled a forum where a guy was having the same prob. He basically ran the raw dump through windows movie maker. Tried that - no joy :(
I like youtube cos it gives me a hitcount that feeds my hungry ego but if I don't get a solution soon then fuck it.
Quote from: LMNO on May 03, 2007, 03:01:02 PMHey--- you can make your own ringtones? How do you load them onto your phone?
i got a datacable with my nokia6670 so i can just upload the mp3s with that (USB to phone)
but then i lost the datacable and the fuckers cost like $60 (cause it's special NOOOKIA hardware)
so i tried bluetooth, but when i was still running windows, all windows saw "hey a phone device, let's connect to the internets over it!" which is of course useless because my phone internets is expensive and slow as fuck.
now i'm running ubuntu and i had the idea to try the bluetooth thing again (because i know transporting files is one thing it can do, because it does work between phones) and what do you know, it worked (but i can't connect to the internet with it this time).
another method would have been to take out the little 256MB RS-MMC card, and put the mp3s on that, but i don't have a card-reader for it. .. but my gf just got a new laptop with a card reader .. (trying ..) which doesn't seem to work (at least not right away).
Quote from: SillyCybin on May 03, 2007, 05:33:33 PM
I figurd I had it sussed last night. Googled a forum where a guy was having the same prob. He basically ran the raw dump through windows movie maker. Tried that - no joy :(
I like youtube cos it gives me a hitcount that feeds my hungry ego but if I don't get a solution soon then fuck it.
can't you like, reverse desync the audio the other way, and see if that makes it line up correctly?
(i dunno, just throwing some possible ideas at you)
Ah. I don't think my piece-of-shit Motorola has a usb cable.
I have no idea how to do this, but I really want my ringtone to be the sound of an angry duck quacking. Or a goose. I think that would be cute as hell.
i have a different semi-fitting ringtone for every one of my friends/people/family that call me often.
my gf insists she wants a My Dying Bride ringtone but i keep telling her they have no ringtone-worthy bits of music and it all would come out as noise, mostly (at least the heavy guitar bits)
Finally got it uploaded to youtube
LINKY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xl7OzWxgzXI)
Had to run the source through virtual dub then run the (15gig!) result through windows movie maker.
Watched it again and I'm not quite as pissed off with it as I was a week ago. Still don't think it's as good as ep1 but maybe it doesn't suck completely. I hope not anyway.
In less than 6 months I've gone from THIS (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u6u1yxON9E)
to this...
(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i312/P3nT4gR4m/bj/MODPFA.jpg)
I'd like to do a bit more but I srsly can't do it meslef. There's totally too much work involved in what I want to do. If anyone here can do animation or scripts (especially scripts) or even if you know someone who might be up for this type of gig then let me know. I'm totally not wanting to sit on this but I think I gotta get a team together to work on it or it's never going to happen.
Help me PD.com, you're my last hope
I watched the youtube video, blew me away.
Talk to me about script ideas and we'll collaborate.
PM sended. Also read through the rest of this thread for an idea of where I'm planning on taking this with ep3.
Bump for classic goodness. Pent needs to get off his ass and DO THIS SHIT.
Quote from: Doktor Howl on May 06, 2010, 11:03:22 PM
Bump for classic goodness. Pent needs to get off his ass and DO THIS SHIT.
THIS. YES, definitely THIS.
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 15, 2007, 11:03:03 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KMK1BJ9HSw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KMK1BJ9HSw)
Bump.
Pent, get on the fucking stick, already.
Quote from: The Good Reverend Roger on January 19, 2011, 07:51:38 PM
Quote from: P3nT4gR4m on January 15, 2007, 11:03:03 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KMK1BJ9HSw (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KMK1BJ9HSw)
Bump.
Pent, get on the fucking stick, already.
I haven't seen him around in ages. :?
I'm still about. Just haven't had much to say recently. As for video I can't see me going back to it, it's fucking soul destroying work :sad:
There's a reason shit like that is usually produced by a team of 30 people.
On a side note the very first baby jesus youtube appearance ever (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u6u1yxON9E&NR=1) is still up there. I took it as far as I could.
Definitely some classic Grade A material right there.