Well, we don't have a model of a real axolotl, so we have to use this krill as Gary.
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Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Friday, September 18, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Sunday, August 2, 2009
Doing More Testing
I was just experimenting around getting the clouds to move and girl to do things and lighting set and camera angles on Stonehenge to see what it would look like. Then if I use the scene on the Lammy blog, I'd have to make voices and try to lip sync the mouth. Then the computer makes 30 pictures for each second of video which means about 2000 individual photos for one minute which is then compressed into a video format. I didn't put any sound on this, just make a quickie to get some general idea of what it looks like.
Labels: Stonehenge, Xin
Sunday, July 12, 2009
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
Checking Sound F/X
I was just trying to learn to put the right sounds in the right places with the movements of the characters. Also I had been messing with various morphs of Lammy and a new character I call Wikki Wakki. In the first clip, it was really the voice of Sarah Palen, or Palin, however you spell her name.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The Camera and Characters
Everything in the movie is programmed or scripted. I noticed that the camera can be set to move, and one of the settings was to fix it on a particular subject so that when the character moves, the camera moves so it constantly points at her. In the first scene I set the camera to always point at Filthy Fae's head, so whenever she moved her head, the camera kept the head exactly in the center of the frame which made the background move and look sort of strange. I was just curious how that would look. The character's moves are in blocks and the blocks are dragged onto the timeline of the movie with the mouse. We put several blocks together, and can even edit an individual block that scripts how the subject moves. The blocks are from a second to several and sometimes up to ten seconds. The sound is also in little files which I have downloaded from the net. The first one Lammy speaks is from Sex In The City, I think. I'm not sure where most of the sound files came from. Many from movie clips. In the last scene, Lammy, which is an Aiko 4.0 doll, is without her wig.
Monday, July 6, 2009
More Testing
For these little tiny videos for a post, I used 15 frames/sec and got the video down to under 2 Mb. That uploads fast. But I also made one for dvd to play on a tv. The voices are hard to understand because I was trying a text to speech program along with a voice changer program. My microphone is broke, I spilled coffee on it.



