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zook_one
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"Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Monday, June, 12, 2006 11:41 PM
Too funny, you're a little wizard huh? I lauged when you bleeped the swear words and bumped your head on the MCP... very nice job.

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Sketch
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Monday, June, 12, 2006 11:44 PM
Why don't you fill us in NoExcuses on some of your process for creating the video? I'm sure everyone would love to know.

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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Tuesday, June, 13, 2006 3:40 AM


Hah! That was great! Nice work, NoExcuses!



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DaveTRON
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Tuesday, June, 13, 2006 12:00 PM
Excellent. Just wish your audio level was a bit higher. I got a good laugh though.

Can you tell us more about how you made it?

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NoExcuses
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Tuesday, June, 13, 2006 12:09 PM
Argh! I got a bit scared then when I checked the I/O Tower, I wasn't expecting this thread... thanks for the kind words, people!

Well Sketch, Dave, you asked for it. And you're going to regret it, too!

Don't bother reading this if you're in a rush...

Err, let me see... I filmed myself on a greenscreen, but unfortunately my only decent lamp blew when I was setting up lighting, so I had to rely on my room lights and the sun outside, hence the jitteriness of the chroma key.

Then, I imported the soundtrack into a sound editty program, and recorded the Giant Face's lines in the gaps I left when I filmed myself. Then I booted up my Giant Face model (which isn't necessarily the MCP, see bottom of this post), and by playing the lines frame by frame, I synced his face to his lines, and rendered them.

After that, I processed the Giant Face's lines (thanks to Fretnoize's advice in this thread), exported the whole soundtrack, and exported the soundtrack and the Giant Face clips into a movie program. I then assembled the background clip together, first with the blue city thing, then the little cylinder thing, then the Giant Face, then the cylinder again and the city again, and matched the Giant Face movie clips up to his lines. I exported this clip with the soundtrack and left it for a moment.

Then, in the movie program again (I'm sure other video editing guys out there like Todd know what all this is like...), I imported the original clip of me on the greenscreen, and painted green over the edges of the clip that the greenscreen didn't extend to (it was a small greenscreen, about 1m width x 2m length), and exported it, but soundless this time.

Then, in another movie program, I imported both clips, and spent the next 30mins - 1hr trying to get the right chromakey settings to minimize spill and all those annoying little blips and blops that you can still see all over the place.

For the power cycles bit, I just keyed out a bit of my hair, added a cycling coloured blur to the edges of the clip, and faded the effects on and off. And I suppose that's pretty much it...

I think making crazy movies is all I do with my spare time... although it'll take me a long while to get anywhere near Todd's standard...

Fun fact: What I bleep out is actually me saying 'FACE!', which is just a word me and my brother shout at each other when we can't think of anything to say.

Fun fact 2: This movie was a test for the TRON spoof me and some friends intend to make. The 'Giant Face' is going to be known as the CARDIGANN in the spoof (I forget what that stands for) - the equivalent of the MCP, except in the real world he's a sentient car. One of my friends (joined the Sector as Evil_Tom_Gu), told me to upload it here, and after some persuading, I did.

Well, thanks again for what you've said everyone, it really is appreciated!


 
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Tuesday, June, 13, 2006 12:53 PM
We look forward to more video experiments. The more you do the more you have to put in that bag-o-videotricks.

Keep up the good work.

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FreedomForever
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Tuesday, June, 13, 2006 5:59 PM
Wha? Where is this video viewable? It sounds interesting...


 
zook_one
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Tuesday, June, 13, 2006 6:41 PM
it's posted on the front page.

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TheReelTodd
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Tuesday, June, 13, 2006 7:11 PM


Great job, NoExcuses!

You cracked me up with this one. Great use of TRON visuals/theme with a comedic feel!

NoExcuses Wrote:I think making crazy movies is all I do with my spare time... although it'll take me a long while to get anywhere near Todd's standard...

Don't sell yourself short. You're light years beyond where I was at your age! You keep working on those "experiments" and soon you'll be amazing the masses with your video amazing wizardry!

One more thing. When you make stuff like this, you really should make a post about it! Don't be afraid to toot your own horn (show off your stuff). We're all TRON loving nerds here - we want to know what cool TRON creative projects (and even non-TRON) people have to offer! If zook_one didn't start a thread about this - I might have missed it entirely! I saw the link on the main page this morning, but was in a rush and didn't click it. I'm glad this thread reminded me about it!




 
FreedomForever
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Tuesday, June, 13, 2006 10:49 PM
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Wednesday, June, 14, 2006 12:08 PM
Thanks everyone!

And thanks for thinking the video was deserving of a thread, zook_one!

TheReelTodd Wroteon't sell yourself short. You're light years beyond where I was at your age!
Perhaps that's true, but back then would it even have been possible to make a video like that, without widely available computers?

Anyway, thanks again everyone! Your comments have made me want to make another sometime - batten down the hatches! Run away, before it's too late!


 
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Wednesday, June, 14, 2006 1:02 PM
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I want to do a Tron vid just like that once I get the right appz.




 
clu_backup
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Monday, June, 19, 2006 6:40 PM
Is there a link to what in the world you guys are talking about?


 
TheReelTodd
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Re: "Giant Face" by NoExcuses

on Monday, June, 19, 2006 7:01 PM
clu_backup Wrote:Is there a link to what in the world you guys are talking about?

It was on the main page a short while back... actually, still is, just down a little further.

Here:

http://www.tron-sector.com/archives/default.aspx?do=gallery§ion=1&category=9&group=NoExcuses%20Clips
These are NoExcuses' video clips. Click on The Giant Face video link and enjoy!



 
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