A Public Service Announcement to ALL patriotic Tyrantulanians (And that means ALL of 'em!) commemorating the day the Conjoined Countries of the Continent surrendered their sovereignty and became united   more...under the Tyrantulanian banner. Hail to our Tyrant!  less

The Tyrannovision Tyrant gets an unexpected call from a more famous dictator who wants a really big favor.

You Think you're a tyrant?

I had bought myself some green paint at HomeDepot for the purpose of making chroma key backgrounds. Doing chroma keying in animation is easy, but I wanted to see how much work it would be for live-action   more...chroma keying. I painted a large canvas green and propped it up on the kitchen counter behind me. I also shot this foortage with mt $100.00 digital webcamcorder, rather than my Sony Digital-8 camcorder, which is what I normally use, just because I wanted to ase how well the editing software would work under crappy shooting circumstances. As you can see, I got pretty darned good results, even with the uneven lighting, whiuch was just the room lights in the kitchen, and nothing else.Oh, And a desk lamp lighting me. Then I just started grabbing various bits of animation I had done (which you will see in other videos here and there) and started using the various chroma key and luminance key functions of Magix Movie Edit Pro 11 to make layers of keyed video, just to see how well it worked. This experiment laid the foundation for the work I've done in the "Tyrannovision" series. By the way: That green canvas back there and that messy kitchen is where I currently shoot my Tyrannovision videos, just to show youhow easy this stuff is to do nowadays. Why is the kitchen a mess? because I'm too busy making videos!

I was also playing around with Morpheus for the first time, so you'll see some examples of that as well.

Many of youhave requested video tutorials from me about special FX and editing. But while I haven't gotten around to making one yet, I thought I would at least share with you my experimental footage to give you a glimpse into my process.

SOFTWARES USED:
MAGIX Movie Edit Pro 11 (For compositing in chroma- and Luma-key. TerryBubble uses this as well. Check out his channel for his own chroma key tutorial)
Morpheus (for morphing, natch. I also played a bit with photo warping, but Onhand is much easier for that)
OnHand Wild Photo Effects (A photo-warping program that I use EXTENSIVELY for a lot of my animation)
Audacity (For cleaning up the audiotape recordings of original music)
Windows Movie Maker (My main editing workhorse, and it's easy to save to different formats with readouts of what your final file size will be)

MUSIC: "Oprahvsky!" by Baron Dixon, based on Beethoven's "Pastorale" and Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker", inspired by an early 1990's Oprah Winfrey theme song.  less

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A young man has poured his broken heart into his Vlog....and the Tyrannovision Tyrant feeds it back to him!

NOTE: In the rendering of the composite video, a glitch occured toward the end, throwing the   more...sound out of sync. By this time you know what I look like so just close your eyes and be stirred by the rousing oration. LOL  less

The Tyrannovision Tyrant has not taken the death of LtAdams2247 very well at all. The death of Syalar takes everything BEYOND mere vengance. Now Tyrantulania's Tyrant is going to take action...because   more...the Forces of Evil can use a few good men...........  less