Thanks so much for the kind words.

I didn't mention this before (I don't think) but I second-guessed this a LOT -- halfway through I was going to give up because I thought "who does he think he is trying to redo something as seminal as Elfman's singing and song?"  I'm glad I finished it and all of you folks saying nice things means a great deal to me.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

I loved watching that video. It's extremely well done. *applauds*

Nice ;)


Toystorylab on Vimeo :     Crassitudes (my "Alter Ego") on Youtube: 

Well, if you've never played a sport your whole life that you are passionate about it might be difficult to understand.  But perhaps you have another hobby, like animation?  And if your doc said "well, that wrist of yours will continue to cause a great deal of pain unless you stop doing stuff on the computer.  Maybe you could take up a different hobby, like bird watching?" would you still be happy?

I've been a tennis player (and if I do say so myself, a pretty good one) for over half a century.  Giving it up would be like giving up using a computer for a lot of people -- almost impossible.  There will come a day when I will have to that, of course, but I intend to keep trying as long as possible.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Sorry to ask that, but why do you guys who have problems with your knees still play tennis??
I don't get it. Just do a different sport...

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Well done Sir! :D :hehe: :cool:



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Nice one!
Too bad that fence was like a plaid suit on a CRT, it was flickering like crazy.

Well, you may have answered your implied question: perhaps the "stop motion" look is the "jittering" that you have to clean up.

Because ALL my animation is either "funny" or "cartoon like" I kind of like the "stop motion" look.

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Mike "ex-genius" Kelley

Very cool . Interesting to see that you didn't have to clean up your mocap. I always have jittering root moves.
Interesting too that your motion have a "stop-motion" look like in The nightmare before christmas. 

Thanks for the kind words.  I intend to make a video going into detail about my techniques (for a new video).  I was going to do that today, but I screwed my knee up playing tennis yesterday so it might have to wait a bit (one of the aspects is the mocap and right now my only mocap would be me limping :>).

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