cat test

this is a greenscreen test

More chroma key fun with my Persian Cat, Binky.

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My test video. Had a lot of fun with this one. My Alleycat

longer shot of my cat

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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

A pic of Pablo just waking up from a nap

some older greenscreen
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Monty, the cat running for President responds to the Bikini News Greenscreen Challenge! ...and celebrates a classic.

Officer Take Has His Hat, Standing in the subway terminal in this WickedPuppets GreenScreen Test

Strange things can happen when you play around with chromakey!

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Loki's screen test wif the new camera. No talking. It's just a test video to see how it turns out in different formats-- but those of you wondering how I get him to pay attention to the camera may get   more...a kick out of it. You can see the peacock feather I use to get him to sit still and look at the camera. I also use a spoon on a stick with canned food to get him to look in different directions, focus and nod, and I shake a can of cat treats to get him to turn his head sharply. These three things plus a lot of luck created Fargate Trekwars.  less

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A 5.5x6 foot piece of luxurious fabric that is a sweet tool for going nuts with clips/videos. Software is Pinnicle Studio Movie Box Ultimate. It does require a minimum of 2 gigs just to run itself, so   more...memory will be sapped from your system. Not the most user friendly software to use, but have heard of worse. Other than that, I learned by trial and error on the how to end.  less

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we're learning how to animate dialog right now in Character Animation II class. this is what i did today in class... but it still needs a lot of work. the sound clip is a quote by Christopher Plummer,   more...from star trek VI, and i downloaded it from http://www.dailywav.com/

for some reason, it's not playing the whole video... if you want to see the whole thing, go to http://youtube.com/watch?v=9EEIq2cX5NA  less

Dix likes to help Chix with the Fix! He always works toward...."resolution."