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Hi all, There is a story about LEGO Studios in the New York times today, the business section: (URL) in it are LUGNET, Studios, and Brickfilms. A nice little article, requires (free) registration unfortunately. Also appears in the print edition (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general)
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| | LEGO Chef (Iron Chef spoof on iFilm.com)
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This is not my work, I just found it on my lunch break and thought it was pretty good! (URL) Busse (URL) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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(...) Hey, thanks! (...) If you are referring to the part I think you are referring to, the thing that fades over the monolith is the RCX brick. It's always cool when people have their own interpretations (I like yours!), but this message summarizes (...) (24 years ago, 15-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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Wow! Marc, that was absolutely fantastic. I showed it around and work, and people loved it. Utterly brilliant. But, I have a question - what exactly is in the silhouette picture that pops up during the monolith sequence? I thought that the point of (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: best encoding software?
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VirftualDub (www.virtualdub.com) is a nice peice of software. BBmpeg is a good mpeging software. DVD's are mpeg2 at 720by 480. Try making your animation like that. Remember that your images are digital, mpeg usually works better on live video then (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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(...) "evolution" is perhaps the wrong word. In the novel, evolution is portrayed as a series of abrupt steps (enforced by a superior alien civilisation). They view mankind as a huge experiment. The time spent in the Victorian house (supposed to be (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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I have several hundred frames (POV rendered) in BMP format that I'd like to put into a movie; what is the best software for doing that? Best format? How are DVD's encoded? They seem to have such high quality and a small footprint. I tried standard (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Anyone doing Stop Motion with a Digital Camera?
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I was interested in starting to do some stop motion with a digital camera and I am interested in any information anyone has on what programs people are using. I plan on getting a Sony S50 but I can't find any sofware that specifically states that it (...) (24 years ago, 12-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Brickfilms - quick news
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Hi everyone, Just wanted to point out that there is an interview up with Marc Atkin, creator of 2001: A LEGO Odyssey at Brickfilms. Also, there are 22 LEGO movies now listed in the directory, with more being added all the time. (URL) filming! Jason (24 years ago, 11-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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Ed, Thanks...the split clip and delete method will work. Maybe zooming in a bunch on the clip will help with finer cuts. I downloaded a freeware application called ABC Videoroll...after playing around with it for a bit I noticed that it at least can (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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Hi All, It's been quite some time since I've posted, my LEGO Room is now a Storage Room (shameful, I know), but I'm starting to get back into the swing of things and LEGO movie making has started to interest me... Anyway, here's a link to some Flash (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Studios Newbie Question
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(...) Yes. Remember now that this is a kiddie app and will not give high quality results. (I dont remember the correct words for everything so I will do my best.) Select the scene in the Movie Track. Then move the blue tap in the scrub bar to the (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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I just got the LEGO Studios Moviemaker set and have been playing around with it. My question is, once I film a clip, how can I cut out parts that I don't want in it? For instance, I have some extra time at the beginning and end of the clip...and is (...) (24 years ago, 9-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Analog camcorder to computer, how?
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Usb devices, usually are not as good as the pci counter parts. they usuualy have mono audio as oppose to the pci cards, and their capture resultions are some what limiting "Greg Perry" <supernerd23@yahoo.com> wrote in message (...) (24 years ago, 8-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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(...) I have a hard/software package called "Studio PCTV USB" from Pinnacle Systems. This is the same company that makes the software for the LEGO Studios product. The hardware part is a plastic unit about six-inches square that plugs into the USB (...) (24 years ago, 7-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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"Roy Rutherford" <iarnell@juno.com> wrote in message news:G6rDLr.EBC@lugnet.com... (...) that (...) I have a SONY TR-96; A Video8 camera. A few years ago, I looked into the best way of capturing video to my computer. I was just about ready to buy a (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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I have made a few short Lego Star Wars movies with my analog camcorder that I would like to be able to transfer to my computer so I can edit and post them to my website. Does anyone have any ideas what I need, how much it would cost, et cetera? (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Bullet Time effects
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In lugnet.publish.cinema, Geordan Ballantree writes: <snip> (...) <snip> In addition to the above, if frames are needed in between the taken pictures, they are generated via computer to fill in the blanks. Joe (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!
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(...) Well I know from movies the screens are a special fabric and theye are very large and usually quite some distance from the subject. They don't use any special lighting though just a lot of it to have the curtian evenly lit. Now, I did turn on (...) (24 years ago, 6-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | Re: Bullet Time effects
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A boom is something that holds the camera in an exact position so that you don't have to stand there holding it. Also allows for minor adjustments but keeping the POV of the camera in teh same place. Kinda what they do for those long pull - out (...) (24 years ago, 5-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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