2nd Moho Contest Submission - Charley Loses His Marbles

grimble67 · Post by **grimble67** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:05 am

Here is my entry, I hope you enjoy. It's about 3m20s, and I'm hoping the judges will permit my slight overage.

Charley Loses His Marbles

Banterfield · Post by **Banterfield** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:17 am

That was really fun and well done! Lots of nice work on the character shadows throughout.

b15fliptop · Post by **b15fliptop** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:37 am

I love it! Very creative and original.

"Nobody put an eraser to your head"... lol

Nolan Scott · Post by **Nolan Scott** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 5:19 am

Excellent little story, good idea and very cute.

Cheers
Nolan

Hiddicop · Post by **Hiddicop** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 10:21 am

Hey, this was wonderful. Great!

nobudget · Post by **nobudget** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 2:09 pm

Good job! I also liked the sound design, very well done. It looked a bit like a more cute cousin of the "Number 5 Is Alive" animation I did for the previous contest, with the combination of live action and animation. The "escape" from the paper was fun with the shadows, good eye for detail.

Did you combine video with animation in Moho or externally? Was the white edge on the silhouette characters on the kitchen table on purpose for contrast or was it an overlay problem?

I'm looking forward to more adventures!

Reindert.
www.nobudgetvideo.com

grimble67 · Post by **grimble67** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 3:26 pm

Thanks to all for your kind comments. It's nice to receive encouragement, especially at this level, when we aren't getting paid!

nobudget wrote:Did you combine video with animation in Moho or externally? Was the white edge on the silhouette characters on the kitchen table on purpose for contrast or was it an overlay problem?

I combined the video and animation in Moho. I joined separate movies and added music and credits in Sony Vegas 5.

On the sequence with the silhouettes, I rendered the characters from Moho, and exported it to a Quicktime file without the background video, using Millions of Colors+. In Vegas, I overlayed the transparent character layer over the original video footage. That may be what created the white edge. I actually liked the effect, so I didn't attempt to change it.

Your "5 Alive" animation was definitely my inspiration for combining characters with live action - you did a great job with that.

CrAzY Dan · Post by **CrAzY Dan** » Sat Apr 30, 2005 4:43 pm

if you cut out the credits out and maybe a bit of the beginning you may be able to squeeze it into 3mins

Benvindo · Post by **Benvindo** » Sun May 01, 2005 1:42 am

Excellent !

grimble67 · Post by **grimble67** » Sun May 01, 2005 4:57 pm

Ok, it was painful, but I was able to trim my entry to exactly 3 mins.

jorgy · Post by **jorgy** » Sun May 01, 2005 5:31 pm

grimble67 wrote:Ok, it was painful, but I was able to trim my entry to exactly 3 mins.

Feels like cutting off an arm or a leg, doesn't it?

CrAzY Dan · Post by **CrAzY Dan** » Sun May 01, 2005 6:15 pm

glad to hear it. Nice one!

cribble · Post by **cribble** » Mon May 02, 2005 11:26 am

I liked the use of mixed media there, really enjoyed that.

stephen · Post by **stephen** » Mon May 02, 2005 7:07 pm

I really really liked this. Thank you.

Stephen

2nd Moho Contest Submission - Charley Loses His Marbles

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