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Bitey Castle, top floor
Joined on 3/26/04
Posted by chluaid - November 8th, 2007
If you've been having trouble viewing Waterlollies at 25fps, you can now see it on YouTube:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=pCxPEB-uu20
Unfortunately the quality isn't anywhere near what I'd like it to be but hey, that's YouTube I guess. My SWF to Video capture software also drops the occasional frame but all things considered, it's not bad at all. Feel free to embed and share it :)
I've noticed, in your responses to people not liking bitey's outlook on life, that you keep saying something is going to happen to him that changes that. Is this going to be the plot of an upcoming brackenwood adventure? Maybe in the movie?
P.S. Outstanding work, by the way. I can't believe you do this using flash.
thanks for the feedback.. can't really tell you anything about upcoming stories but needless to say, I'm a bit sick of my scores suffering because of the stories, so the next thing I submit to NG is going to be bullet-proof and rock solid :)
I'd say it looks just as good. The amazing animation's all still there.
Great work anyways.
AH MAN FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! Why is the score dropping?!?!? Who the hell is voting 0 all the time! It went from 4.79 to 4.76 and now 4.74!
the score-dropping has been happening a lot lately it's mostly people who like Tankmen Voting zero cause they want it to be number one same thing happened in sonic Nazo Unleashed , but eventually this'll get a lot of votes and those cunts really won't be able to affect the score much
yeah same thing happens with every movie on NG though.. haters vote it down and fans 5 it every day. I reckon a good indicator is the score 1 year later.
If you noted the score of every movie that's been in the top 50 for a year or more, it'd be interesting to see the rankings. There's a point at which the weight of numbers shows the true score.
youtube really need to lessen the blurryness of their stewf.
i came, nuff said.
I love you, seriously. You're the best.
oh yeah, ive been meaning to ask you something, how do you make your movies look so crips? when i make movies they seem to look alot messier, do you use the pencil tool, the brush, i know you use a wacom, which is probably part of why it looks neater, since im stuck with a stone age trust tablet, how long do you spend on each frame?
yep I use the brush. I draw with the smoothing (in the Properties panel) set to 20. Then, when I've finished the entire drawing and filled it with the paint bucket, I optimise it to smooth it out. Modify > Shape > Optimize.
It makes the line work look nice and smooth, and it also lowers the file size by 70% at least.
so do you make all these episodes using flash? the art is simply amazing.
thanks! Yep it's all Flash.
Out of interest, are you still working on an animation help book?
I'd like to know some dates and stuff, cause it's something i'd like to buy.
no that book was cancelled. I finished and delivered my part of the book, and I was in author-review stage (where the editor requests changes), but my co-author got busy on other stuff and O'Reilly decided to can it. Bit of a shame really, I was thinking about buying back my chapters from them (cos they paid me for the work I'd done) so that I can release them on my site... a bit outdated now, as I was writing it back when Flash 8 first came out.
You have talent man. Your flashes r amazing. How long did it take you to do your masterpieces?
anywhere between 8 and 14 weeks, depending on the complexity of the movie. Waterlollies was 12 weeks or so.
If you don't leave a response, I'll be very sad.
cheer up.
Hey, been a fan of your video's. Thought I should writte to ya directly instead of posting comments on your 4 clips lol. First off, I love the creativity and unique style of your characters, there personalities are unque also. The music is really good. And the mood set in your video's are joyfull to watch, no over the top action, no sexual contents, no surprise appearance of celebreties. Its just unique, like a J.R.R Tolken Lord of the rings. So in other words I should say I give you my hat on your unique video. It deserves A big 11 out of 10.
Good job really, keep it up. Lata
thanks mate :D
You saythat you are a bit sick of your scores suffering because of the story's. waterlollies has the highest score i have ever seen, with a better story i don't know what it will be like !!. well, hopefully you will get a nice score of 5 (untill someone gets jealous and gives it a 0 (those idiots annoy me)). good luck.
4.69....
It has gone down from 4.79 to 4.69.... what the hell is going on... what the HELL!? Seriously man, I think the NG guys bring it down cuz this is just too high.. there can't really be THAT much ppl that hate your movies? I mean comon... 0.10 down.. that means that every day like 50 ppl vote 0... IMPOSSIBLE!
I've read people commenting on how Bitey's a jerk, but if you think about since this is the wild animals kind of have to fend for themselves and not think about others.
I like the youtube version for the fact that I can watch your awesome flick full-screen. Im still amazed by the great character designs you create, they are so different but fitting into the brackenwood story/world (eg. that random bottom feeder that bitey swam by when escaping the hornets). Anyway, great stuff =)
How do you do all this? Its amazing! and in prowlies at the river (sorry if i messpeld it) you said that ther ewas a url to do the camra? And you animation is so good i gave every one a 10/10. I wish it would go higher.
thanks for the tens :)
The URL for the vCam is on the 'Quality Select' screen of Prowlies. Hover your mouse over the fuzzy white bugs and you'll see a link, which you can copy and paste.
hey Adam i saw your response about the Cintiq tablet thing. Is that a tablet PC sort of like this?
<a href="http://www.ixbt.com/editorial/images/itogi/itogi2k2-may/TabletPC2_H.jpg">http://www.ixbt.com/editorial/images/
itogi/itogi2k2-may/TabletPC2_H.jpg</a>
if so, since that's a computer and tablet in one, you could probably just sell your tablet and computer now and just get that. I'm asking for one myself for christmas :)
A Cintiq is a monitor that has tablet functionality built in so you can draw on it, but it's not a computer in itself. Tablet PCs are awesome for portability, but the monitor/tablet area is quite small like a laptop, so I think I'd only really use it for doing animation on a long flight or train trip.
MRat
Very cool. I don't know why, but animation always seems so much more impressive when watched on YouTube.
chluaid
that YouTube version of Waterlollies has a bit of frame-skipping here and there, so some of the really nice singles animation is lost. I'll update YouTube with a better version soon anyway.