 | | "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Marc Atkin
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| | | Hi all, It is my very great pleasure to announce that my newest movie, "2001: A Lego Odyssey" is now playing at a website near you! It's been a labor of love, and one of the reasons I got a digital camcorder in the first place. Of course it's a (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Tim Culberson
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| | | | | Uh.....wow. Yeah that's definately some very nice work....in fact it kinda makes me want to watch the real famed film that I have yet to see for real. Sweetness sound and stuff. And the "LDRAW-flying through space with the bricks on either side" (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Tim Culberson
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| | | | | | Okay so I just watched it again and it's even better the second time. Good work Marc. (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Marc Atkin
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| | | | | | To Tim and all the others who responded: Thank you so much for your praise! As we all know, half the fun (at least) of creating something is showing it to people who will appreciate it. So keep those comments coming! And Tim, I strongly encourage (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Kai Brodersen
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| | | | | | (...) I think what stanley is trying to say is that with out alien intervention (the monolith) the human kind would not have become a successful race(i.e. no tools no computers and NO LEGOS !!!!) and our quest to know everything about the universe (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Adrian Egli
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| | | | | THAT WAS EXCELLENT! Any plans for "2010: Odyssey Two" when that year arrives????? Adrian "Marc Atkin" <atkin@cs.umass.edu> wrote in message news:G6HEGD.8M2@lugnet.com... (...) Lego (...) and (...) it's (...) movie, (...) did (...) minute (...) (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Jason Reljac
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| | | | | Marc, That was fantastic! Great work. To anyone thinking about downloading it: It IS worth the wait. J- "Marc Atkin" <atkin@cs.umass.edu> wrote in message news:G6HEGD.8M2@lugnet.com... (...) Lego (...) and (...) it's (...) movie, (...) did (...) (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Mladen Pejic
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| | | | | WOW! That is really amazing. Excellent job! I love the ending, so true to KuBRICK's own vision! ;-) (...) it's (...) movie, (...) minute (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Jason Rowoldt
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| | | | | Mark, FANTASTIC work. That was a work of art, my friend, and a great homage to Kubrick. Great use of the original score, including the "buzzing voices" you used for the obelisk. :) I also loved the evolution of the different bricks though the years. (...) (24 years ago, 1-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Alex Farlie
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| | | | | | (...) Yes! It was a bone... Alex (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Kyle Keppler
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| | | | | That was great! After watching it about 3 1/2 times it keeps getting better. By far the best part was when the guy in "LEGO Today" saw his brick and it was a burp and he frowned! That was great! Awesome movie! --Kyle LUGNUT# 791! (URL) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Mark Sandlin
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| | | | | (...) <snip> That is the coolest thing I have seen in a long long long time. The BURP is excellent. ~Mark "Muffin Head" Sandlin (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Joseph Cardana
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| | | | | I loved it, but my 6yr old didn't get it. At first anyway. He watched it again and thinks it's the best of the 5 Lego films I showed him. BRAVO!!! (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Chuck Sommerville
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| | | | | My two little boys and I loved it! They kept saying "Again!" We must have watched it 5 or 6 times. -Chuck (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Darrell King
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| | | | | (...) Please tell me! What equipment/software did you use? Darrell King darrellk@pixelmonkey.net (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Marc Atkin
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| | | | | | I used a Sony MiniDV digital camcorder with a firewire connection to a Mac (Powerbook G3 400 Mhz), iMovie 2 to capture frames, Final Cut Pro to edit the movie (Final Cut Pro can't capture directly from the camera - how annoying!), and Photoshop to (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Joseph Cardana
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| | | | | | (...) Hey Mark, I've been tinckering with blue and green screens. How did you do it. I've tried all sorts of fabrics and lights to illuminate them but it just doesn't seem to work. The only other option is my digital camera sucks! Joe (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Marc Atkin
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| | | | | | Hey Joe, Although my camera also has a "green screen" option, I didn't use it for the movies (so I can't judge whether or not your camera sucks :). I used the green screen option provided by Final Cut Pro, a high-end ($1000) movie editing package (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Jeff Johnston
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| | | | | | (...) If I remember right, blue or green screens used in movies are backlit or something so that shadows don't show up on them. I've had the same problem, and it takes a lot of editing with the 'magic wand' selector in Painter to get rid of the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Marc Atkin
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| | | | | | That sounds like a good idea. I did that to some extent, using three lamps arrayed around the subject. What I also did was mount the subject at some distance from the screen (on a thin pole), so that the bulk of the shadow falls far away from the (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Joseph Cardana
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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: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | (...) Oh my dear sweet lord in heaven, that is one of the coolest things I have ever seen in LEGO. One of the top 3 or 5, certainly. eric (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Tom Boucher
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| | | | | I don't mean to assume, but I'm interested in how you did this. Judging by the QT format is it safe to say you used some type of digital video camera (like the every day Hi8 / Digital8 Cameras) and transferred it over firewire to something like (...) (24 years ago, 2-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Royce Fay
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| | | | | Impressive! Royce (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Real monolith —Brian J. Sayatovic
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| | | | | Surely by now, you've seen this? (URL) J. Sayatovic mailto:trin@1.net (replace '1' with 'one') "Marc Atkin" <atkin@cs.umass.edu> wrote in message news:G6HEGD.8M2@lugnet.com... (...) Lego (...) and (...) it's (...) movie, (...) did (...) minute (...) (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | Re: Real monolith —Marc Atkin
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| | | | | | | Yeah, someone from my lab gave me the reference. Still very cool, though. Makes you wonder why not more people thought of doing this. Wouldn't it be funny if monoliths started popping up all over the world? :) -- Marc (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| | | | | | | Re: Real monolith —Jonathan Mizner
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, I watched that on the local evening news. Wait a second, this thing pops up in Seattle (location of SEALUG) days after Mark Sandlin disappears for a week. Did Mark, or some other member of SEALUG make this? If so, please come forward! (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Real monolith —Tom Stangl
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| | | | | | If Mark had made it, wouldn't it be made out of LEGO? ;-) (...) -- | Tom Stangl, Technical Support Netscape Communications Corp | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.space)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Dave Schuler
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| | | | | (...) Yes indeed! Very cool work, especially the psychedelic cascade of bricks! In other news: (URL) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Selçuk Göre
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| | | | | Wow!.. It took forever to download (56k modem, slow connection, 2k/sec mostly) but worth well. It is very nicely done..:-) Selçuk (...) (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Ed T. Toton III
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| | | | | | (...) Heck, it takes a while even with DSL... But well worth it. It's absolutely f***ing brilliant. :) I see everyone's now using my style of monolith. :) -- -Bones- = (URL) = NecroBones Enterprises (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Matt Brooks
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah it takes a LONG time! I started it downloadng at 8:30. It's 10:14 now and I'm still only 89% done... Wowza.. Can't wait to watch it!!! Matt (24 years ago, 3-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Jonathan Mizner
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| | | | | (...) To make the 17th reply, YOUR MOVIE IS AWESOME! I haven't had a chance to see the original yet (although I have read the book), but your expert use of a camera, and the plotline, made it beyond words. Of course, some people cannot appreciate (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Marc Atkin
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| | | | | | | Hey Jonathan, I'm glad you were finally able to watch the movie - I know you had trouble downloading it. And of course I'm even happier you appreciated it so much! Yes, it was a lot of work, but it was also a lot of fun. I love reading all the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Jonathan Mizner
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| | | | | | | | (...) Thank you sincerly for explaining the purpose of the movie. Today I am renting the original, and will be able to truly enjoy your movie for the first time. Thank you! (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space)
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| | | | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Scott Arthur
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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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| | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Jaco van der Molen
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| | | | | | Yeah, great movie! But we should not continue this discussion on lugnet.cad.mlcad. I have a feeling it does not belong here. Greetingz... Sjaacko (...) (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —George Haberberger
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| | | | | (...) Wow, this is amazing, worth the time it took me to find a player that would understand it (Windows media player and Real Player 7 did not, Quicktime did.). George (24 years ago, 4-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation, lugnet.general, lugnet.year.2001, lugnet.build, lugnet.space, lugnet.town, lugnet.cad.mlcad)
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| | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Jason J. Railton
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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: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Marc Atkin
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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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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | | | (...) No, not that (I've got an RCX). I meant the odd black shape that appears as a still on different coloured backgrounds between phases of the POV sequences. What on earth is it? (...) It's the one that's chucked up in the air at the end of this (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Marc Atkin
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| | | | | | (...) Ohhhhh [light bulb goes on over head]... That's a close-up of the minifig's eye, you know, like in the real movie at the end... (...) Points taken. I feared the red gear might have been new but I thought the other pieces were around for a (...) (24 years ago, 16-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Jason J. Railton
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| | | | | | (...) Oh right! I see it now. I don't recall those shots in the trippy bit, but it's been a while since I watched the movie. And I never realised quite how old it was - 1968! So what's next? 2010? (Thinks:Spielberg Movie Maker-Jaws add on pack-Roy (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | | | | Re: "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie! —Marc Atkin
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| | | | | | (...) Actually, I've already decided on my next project, although it could be a while before it's done (script is finished, though). The working title is "Good Will Skeleton". It's about a skeleton with a hidden talent who doesn't want to do what (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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| | | | | File sizes drastically reduced (was "2001: A Lego Odyssey" - A New Lego Movie!) —Marc Atkin
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| | | | For your information: Thanks to a tip from Marc Leidy ((URL) I was able to reduce the file sizes of the movie by a factor of about three or four. The smallest version is now only 6.2 MB and is at 320 x 240 resolution. So you might be able to see (...) (24 years ago, 17-Jan-01, to lugnet.animation)
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