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This is to test some ideas about motion in a project I've had on the back burner for a while. I-movie let's you do some corny motion graphics for inserts, so I thought I'd toy with them a bit... I don't know how to do real motion graphics, but I wanted to see what that and layers and scrolling and such might turn into on the screen. The story is a bit more involved and involves three characters: Willoughby, Clark, and the narrator. Feed back, collaboration, etc. welcome.
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  • robert 1 year ago
    I think you could have done better.
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    well, or course. The idea is to do better. So How do you mean?
  • robert 1 year ago
    I was being sarcastic. I think its great.
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    oh man, I was hoping you hated it, but had the key to making it better.
  • robert 1 year ago
    A good artist could spend a life time making something better and better. The trick is to know when you are satisfied and use what you have learned from one project and apply it to a new one, and so on.

    And I also, think improving one's own work is a form of personal censorship.

    These are just my thoughts on "doing better" don't take them for much if you don't want to.
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  • MariaNYC plus 1 year ago
    I don't see why someone with motion graphics skills couldn't do something with this (unless they had no talent lol) - everything is there -- in terms of images (never lacking in that area) and the story is quite good (always have a good story to tell). So as a rough sketch it actually has a good feel to it. Of course what makes it special is the interaction of the images- sketched -painted etc. Yea I like this - and that is what I said one morning when I decided to quit smoking - I Don't want to die!
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    right... This is so basic... but not to Willoughby. Right.... He's depressed and against Clark... who is Manic and the narrator is just I...
    Never mind; this is simply a visual test. Hopefully we'll talk story etc. later.

    I think colin stetson should do the track?
  • MariaNYC plus 1 year ago
    I was just going to reply separately on the audio portion. Do you mean you know him or would ask him to do it or dice and splice him in the mix?
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    Through connections, there may be a way to get hem to play that chaos order for the larger narrative.
  • MariaNYC plus 1 year ago
    well that's great, if he can not do it because of time then ask him if he would allow you to use a mash up of his recordings (I personally would love to do that)
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  • MariaNYC plus 1 year ago
    I was thinking a lot about the vocal fx you have here - the vocal transformer thingy in GB that u are using. Do you want to keep it? If so I would suggest to create change in the voice by alternating the octaves, for example, make the octaves go up and down - let me listen to it again....
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    this is all a reaction to the loss of a good mic in my dv camera.

    I recorded this off my still cannon and double tracked it one going up and one going down.
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    ideally there should be a middle.
    ideallly there should be a mike that records the middle
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    oh and P.S. I hate the audio.... It is a charade.....How do you spelll?
  • MariaNYC plus 1 year ago
    OK well it's a draft but there are ideas there - I kind of liked that it comes off sinister at times...
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    Oh I was all blah blah blah
    last night.
  • MariaNYC plus 1 year ago
    LOL LOL LOL to say the least.
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    roar
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  • jerry waese 1 year ago
    part of it looks like scrolling down a web page
    that intermixed with painted face stop action might be enough.
    some extra curvey geometric animation is external to the core. i am not sure why it is ranging that far.
    i liked the sound track, some of the smooth video needs to be more steppy, buffered and less smooth will make live action more art.

    in an itin movie, i expect live action and panoramas, live action and transportation, while art layers are the stronger elements - punched with stop frame action. image reversal, shadow emphasis...
    (i.e. a change every 1/6 or 1/7th second at the most.)
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    that's a pretty good idea for how to deploy video later. grazzi
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    oh and part of it IS scrolling down a web page.... I'm wondering if that can be duplicated i the e-book software I may be toying with.
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  • loonachic plus 1 year ago
    uhm... can i please have a LOVE button for this?
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    giggle....my belly....giggle
    (sorry but I always loved that commercial with the dude made out of croisssant rollls...... I think they called them crescent rolls.....)
  • loonachic plus 1 year ago
    i used to have a crescent roll doll when i was a kid! it was made of rubber. i loved it.
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    I just remembered now that you say it:
    The Pillsbury Dough Boy
    Such a WWII oddity of naming.
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  • assbach 1 year ago
    a lot of cool ideas in here, creative! thanks for sharing with me....
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  • Peter Crane 1 year ago
    i like this. well done.
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  • I really like this a lot.

    The only thing I would recommend is to come up with more creative transitions that aren't just scrolling. It's probably okay to do it for a couple but not for all of the first 2/3 of the video. Maybe have elements fly in from different sides or have things appear as one thing but actually be revealed as something else, etc.

    Also I'd like if more of the visuals were synced with the audio, especially the beginning maybe the faces change as the audio does at certain points.

    this is really really awesome and I like that you are trying out something new. I can't wait to see more!
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    yes yes, this is definitely part of the plan.
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  • Cardinal Sputter 1 year ago
    I could see it in the Hirshhorn here in DC, good job.
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  • MariaNYC plus 1 year ago
    well I just want you to know that here it is days later but nearly all these images stuck with me- I could recall just about all of them. That really is something - so I hope you will continue with this as it is clearly more than just an idea.
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    Only problem is this work always brings out a sort of dark side in my personality that I don't enjoy so much.
  • MariaNYC plus 1 year ago
    sometimes the best work does that. hopefully you can put up with him just enough to drag out the goods.
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  • MariaNYC plus 1 year ago
    He was popular, I see he got many views. Still think this is very good, came back for thirds. :-)
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    he got onto the Vimeo HD channel, or some such which gets lots of views... I think
  • MariaNYC plus 1 year ago
    Always a mystery to me these figures but you should do the motions to this yourself.. . you were on a roll with it.
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  • Anrkist 1 year ago
    You're quoting Ice Cube, right?
  • Alex Itin plus 1 year ago
    no, but I'd love to know what song you are thinking of
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