Terry Gilliam - Do it yourself animation show

cheyne · Post by **cheyne** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 1:52 am

This is fantastic! The man behind the animations in Monty Pythons Flying Circus.

Well and truly before my time. Please take your time to watch this "masterclass" on cut-out animation!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrsKPKjG ... ideo_title

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Tue Aug 16, 2011 2:39 am

brilliant! great find

I think we should have a cutout challenge... there's so much source material at our fingertips (google image search etc) - to just create completely random stuff like this in AS - you could even record your funny sounds directly into it!

who's with me?

uddhava · Post by **uddhava** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 4:49 pm

Great, thanks a bunch for posting this!

udd

Shanty Baba · Post by **Shanty Baba** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:20 pm

Thanks for that!
Shanty

uddhava · Post by **uddhava** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 5:25 pm

funksmaname wrote:
I think we should have a cutout challenge... there's so much source material at our fingertips (google image search etc) - to just create completely random stuff like this in AS - you could even record your funny sounds directly into it!

who's with me?

Could be fun. What's the challenge?

Maybe you need to make a new post?

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:25 pm

thinking about it here's some ideas:
take 10+ random images from google image search and make a 'gag' out of it using only cut out techniques (bones would be fine, but no bending/morphing images)
Images should be unrelated and used out of context where possible.

also using 'step' interpolation to force a jittery traditional look would be prefered...

Any more ideas to include?

uddhava · Post by **uddhava** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:27 pm

funksmaname wrote:thinking about it here's some ideas:
take 10+ random images from google image search and make a 'gag' out of it using only cut out techniques (bones would be fine, but no bending/morphing images)
Images should be unrelated and used out of context where possible.

also using 'step' interpolation to force a jittery traditional look would be prefered...

Any more ideas to include?

How can I pick random images?
Could we duplicate images? Or resize them during the animation? Should camera moves be only zooming in and out?
Basically we could do it as to imitate sitting down with some cut outs and moving them around. but using bones.

udd

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:17 pm

I found this:
http://www.randimaginator.tk/

If you just set it to 'words' and click go you get an interesting mish mash of material...then if you get specific needs you can search for extra images to use with google

duplication and resizing is fine, but maybe sticking to step interpolation will force a more traditional look

Photoshopping/airbrushing should be allowed so you can make puppets out of images you find

could be fun!

sbtamu · Post by **sbtamu** » Thu Aug 18, 2011 11:33 pm

Sounds like fun!

cheyne · Post by **cheyne** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 6:58 am

No worries guys! I totally found it by chance, as most of the cool stuff I find on the lovely internet.

Well, I think a cut-out challenge would be nifty!

What if someone (me) select a set of images, and we make the challenge based on those? I can make it up as a pack, put it somewhere to download and work from there?

That'll take a bit of the hackwork of it for searching for images (for busy or lazy folk), and we'll have a set of resources to "challenge" ourselves with.

How does that sound? I'll post a topic in competitions, and link to it here in this post

uddhava · Post by **uddhava** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 10:56 am

cheyne wrote:
Well, I think a cut-out challenge would be nifty!

What if someone (me) select a set of images, and we make the challenge based on those? I can make it up as a pack, put it somewhere to download and work from there?

That'll take a bit of the hackwork of it for searching for images (for busy or lazy folk), and we'll have a set of resources to "challenge" ourselves with.

How does that sound? I'll post a topic in competitions, and link to it here in this post

Sounds like a good idea to me. I like the idea of someone else picking the images, I could get really "mental" about something like that.

And will there be a list of rules or we go by the ideas on this post?

udd

cheyne · Post by **cheyne** » Fri Aug 19, 2011 3:56 pm

Cool as, I will go ahead and get some images together and put some rules together.

So basic rules (please give input) should be I guess:

- run time e.g. 30-45 seconds
- audio or no audio? (I think it should have audio)
- video size e.g. 1280 x 720
- maybe post a youtube video, and entries posted as responses? Maybe easier to just link in a post
- after we get enough posts have a poll to vote on best one?
- should it be comedy orientated? Or just whatever?
- a DEADLINE, that's always important, 3-4 weeks from start? Is that too long for a cut-out when we are just having fun?

Since it's a challenge and rather then a competition, I guess we shouldn't be too stringent on rules.

Anyway, this could be great fun indeed! I'll get some images together ASAP.

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Sun Aug 21, 2011 10:55 pm

hey,
yeah I wouldn't get too hot on the rules - what I would suggest is maybe we say you should use at least 3 images from the pack, and you can add your own - you just have to work them into the animation? That will be less limiting I think, i think part of the fun is finding some images!

I'm not sure we need to set a deadline or poll a winner - it may discourage the meek to participate... Also people stumbling on the post after deadline should also be encouraged to post rather than locking off the idea?

i think sound should be optional but encouraged. In-fact, we could turn the whole thing on its head and instead of supplying images supply a soundtrack (or additionally) - say a gilliam video turned into an audio file... I bet when you listen to it out of context it will help come up with ideas and also fix the timing and give certain hit points to go for? just an idea

cheyne · Post by **cheyne** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 1:27 am

Hey Funks, yeah you are right - we should leave it as something fun to do. Scrap my ideas about rules etc.

Good idea about the pack - could be like "Tropfest" which has a "key" item for each years competition.

Agree about sound.

Had a busy few days but got time off next couple so will get something together and find some audio for people to use. I don't really need an excuse to watch some Flying Circus

funksmaname · Post by **funksmaname** » Mon Aug 22, 2011 2:25 am

yeah - maybe a couple of options would be good - one with some 'talking' while the other is just soundfx and music...