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Re: My Lego Animation...Again
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Thu, 12 Oct 2000 21:55:54 GMT
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> I would be intrested to know some of the technical details as well. I just
> received the LEGO Studios (yes it is shipping from S@H now) but can't use it
> on my Windows 2000 computer despite what the catalog description claims. Tech
> support says it will only work on Win98SE and the new Win ME.
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> What camera and software did you use? Does your 15 months include all of the
> preproduction set building, etc., or just actual filming and editing? The
> trailer is 1 min 30 sec. How long is the final movie going to be? The AVI
> file which I downloaded was 4+ MB of data and the quality was very poor. I'm
> wondering if the picture quality/size issue is a result of the format you
> choose for your movie. The sample movies on the http://www.lego.com/studios
> web site are about this length and about his same file size but are much
> better quality. LEGO Studios uses quicktime movie file format.
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> > I've been planning on organizing a group of people to do the entire original
> > trilogy in stop-motion Lego.
> > What myplan was, was to setup a webpage for it, get people to sign up to film
> > one or more scenes, then piece the movies together, and distribute them
> > online.
> I would think this would take qite a lot of planning for a consistency of
> image size, quality, lighting, etc. if the final product is to look good.
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> > My e-mail address has changed, so anyone who's interested in participating in
> > this project please e-mail me at: hobartrus@hotmail.com
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> I would cross-post this to a movie making group but I don't think one exists
> yet. ;)
> BEN GATRELLE
The camera I used for this film was an aging VHS-C plugged into my computer
via a capture card. A very old capture card I might add. The 15 months of
production was basically a lot of waiting. I am a full time student at an art
school and my assigned projects take precedence over my personal projects.
And 15 months is a very loose judgement of the production. I had the idea for
a stop-motion animated Lego Star Wars before I even learned of the Lego line.
I spent 3 months working out a script and storyboards. The only reason this
took so long was because I was at college and all my camera equipment was at
home. Set building was a simple task, as is there was only one constructed
set, the ice cavern base. Filming was definatly a learning experience. Two
scenes, the scene of my Jedi walking through the halls and the Lightsaber
duel, were shot over a two week period. ALL the other scenes were shot in two
weeks as well. Once all was shot, I moved into the real labor intensive part,
assembling all the footage and adding the special effects. This too took a
very long time. I used the light version of Ulead MediaStudio that came with
my capture card to assemble the footage. Many of the computer effects were
done in Infini-D 3D software. Btw-the snow footage is my own computer work.
I have since upgraded my computer, purchased a rather expensive MiniDV camera,
and added a Firewire card to my computer. Just wish I had all that when I
first started this project. As far as image quality on the video. From my
little workstation here I have the option of creating about 50 different
combinations of file types and compression. For this little trailer, I
dropped the audio to its lowest possible setting and compressed the video to a
very poor quality I admit. I chose this because I'm on a slow modem and
upload times are a problem. The original footage is 640x480 and contains
stereo sound, but that leads to a big file. i did make a compressed MPEG
movie for myself with full sound and large image quality, but thats 13 Megs in
size..too much for my webspace currently.
Well before I start writing a novel here, I think Ill hold it at that. i hope
this helped explain smoe technical aspects.
Chris
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| (...) I'm sure there are people here who would host it. And there are certainly people who could wait for a 13 MB download. --Bram Bram Lambrecht BXL34@po.cwru.edu (URL) (26 years ago, 13-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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| (...) I would be intrested to know some of the technical details as well. I just received the LEGO Studios (yes it is shipping from S@H now) but can't use it on my Windows 2000 computer despite what the catalog description claims. Tech support says (...) (26 years ago, 12-Oct-00, to lugnet.starwars)
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