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November 13, 2006
superNOVember - 10
by sven at 10:55 pm
Today's stopmo progress:
- used Papagayo to analyze the first 14sec of sound
- printed out a list of keyframes for lipsynch
- created X sheets for the first 14sec of the film
- reformatted the photo storyboard so it'll be easy to refer to while filming
- discovered I need to get my copy of FrameThief registered
- shot my first test clip (using AnimAide XT)
Papagayo is pretty darned quick and easy to use. But it doesn't output X sheets -- only a list of keyframes. Transferring that info to X sheets is annoying. (If someone's really interested in what Papagayo's output looks like, speak up and I'll post an example.)
There's a lot more sound analysis to do... But I figured I should try animating using my new X sheets before spending huge amounts of time to analyze the whole soundtrack.
By the time I got set up in the garage to film, it wasn't going to be long until quitting time -- so I only got out one quick test clip. I'm not happy with the animation. But this marks a turning point: filming has officially begun!
I was thinking that I'd want to do some random test clips with the pups, to get a feel for how they move. Now I realize that I'll probably want to do more than one take for every shot -- so I can work at learning how to make the pups ACT. Thus, I should be shooting every test clip as if I intend to use it in the final cut.
In life news: I wrote a letter to a lawyer regarding my dead dad's probate case (not fun). I got the DMV info I need in order to get the Svan retitled as "reconstructed" (also not fun). I got the estimate on how much it'll cost to tear the closet out in my studio room. I need to follow up with a few questions, then we can schedule.
Oh -- and I watched the first disc of Robot Chicken Season 1. (Ah: FUN.)
Last week I started a push to get some big, difficult, important tasks out of the way. Made good progress. This week I'm basically picking up where I left off.
...I think I'm going to put off the computer upgrade until I'm done shooting this film. I'd like to get the "Quick & Dirty" project done before Thanksgiving -- or at latest, by the end of November.
posted by sven | November 13, 2006 10:55 PM | comments (6) | categories: stopmo
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Sven, you are SMOKIN!!! Man, you got so much done on the project and important life things, and managed to have some fun as well?! Were there 84 hours in your day?
I LOVE the test clip!!! The dad moves so fabulously. That wired jaw is brill. And I would like to see the output, at some point, no rush, because I haven't ventured into the sound area yet. There's so much else to try that's new that I shoved sound off for the time being. But I'd love to have a Sven tutorial when the time comes!!
Rock on with your rocking on.
Posted by: shelley Noble at November 14, 2006 9:56 AM
"Papagayo is pretty darned quick and easy to use. But it doesn't output X sheets -- only a list of keyframes. Transferring that info to X sheets is annoying. (If someone's really interested in what Papagayo's output looks like, speak up and I'll post an example.)"
yes, yes! i'm interested! in part because i have no idea what x sheets are. :)
Posted by: gl. at November 14, 2006 10:21 AM
OK: Here is the Papagayo list of keyframes. You do lipsync analysis for each character separately -- so what I've done is cut and paste Dad's dialogue over into Jimmy's document. (His line is "Grrrrr.") Also, Papagayo doesn't write out what the actual words are -- only phonemes -- so I've added the text of the dialogue in, too. And I've put some spaces in, to make it easier to see where phrases begin and end.
And: Here's Magpie's X sheet output. The demo version of Magpie only allows you to print 16 frames, so there's not a lot there... But you can see that the waveform is included; there are columns for each actor and the physical parts of the actor that I'm analyzing; and the dialogue (which I included in a comment field) is transfered over.
Posted by: sven at November 14, 2006 2:30 PM
A clip!! A clip!! :D and a great one at that, can't wait to see more, but of course you know that already.....
Robot Chicken Seas.1...I love 'Real World Metropolis' :)
Posted by: ubatuber at November 14, 2006 10:25 PM
Yikes. All beyond me. Thanks for showing tho.
Posted by: shelley Noble at November 14, 2006 11:00 PM
the sound keyframes are fascinating! thanks for adding those!
Posted by: gl. at November 15, 2006 3:34 PM