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Post by Otohiko » Sat Oct 09, 2004 3:15 pm

downwithpants wrote:rose: About ice cream, rochester is only 2 hours from ithaca, so if you're ever passing by that void of sunlight we call ithaca, let me know and we could work something out. On the other hand, i have a friend at U of Rochester i've been meaning to visit. furthermore, it'd be awesome if we could all meet at a convention that we submit the project to.
Heh, I used to live a couple of hours (or less, but the border crossing would be a pain) from Rochester, too, up to a couple of months ago. :roll: I'm still in reasonable proximity, though...

I think it's reasonable to assume we'll be trying to get the project to AWA next year, which - fingers crossed - I'm hoping to attend if I'm not in a complete financial hole after paying my tuition.

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Good news for me, looks like I'll be getting half-decent internet access in time for the project's release. I don't know yet if I'll be able to seed it (that depends on whether or not there is a bandwith cap), but at the very least, I'll actually get to see it without having to wait...
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Post by rose4emily » Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:04 pm

I've reinstated some organization on the FTP server, having created space in the "outbox" for the audio and images being used for the Intro, Intermission, and End Credits as they are finished and submitted. My other computer is tied up right now with installing a scanner - but I'll be sure to post all of the images I have processed for the Intro as soon as I'm done with setting up the new scanner. Then I'll finish the Intermission drawing, scan it with my shiny new scanner, and move on to composing an Instrumentality logo and putting together all the elements I've collected for the newsroom set. When that is done, I will do the actual animating for the animated intro.

The newsroom set is coming to be a little more formal than the "guy in chair" idea - but it's also going to be much more attractive. I am trying to do my best to make it look professional without coming across as stuffy, though, so I don't think anyone should worry about it looking too "stiff" compared to the original fantasia narrations (which were somewhat between the two ideas explored for this project, in terms of formality).

Be sure, if you aren't already familiar with them, to check out the three music selections I've chosen for the Intro, Intermission, and End Credits. Not that any of you have to do anything to work with any of these three songs, I just think it might help as another glimpse at what I have in mind for the project's "glue" segments.

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Songbird: Even if you don't have all of the narratives done at this point, it would be nice if I could have one or two to work off of when I'm testing the narrative video segments and playing with my selection of Yukino Miazawa images to pick the ones best fit for the style of the narration.

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Unfortunately, even I can only eat so much ice cream. :lol:
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Post by Songbird21 » Sat Oct 09, 2004 6:38 pm

rose4emily wrote:Songbird: Even if you don't have all of the narratives done at this point, it would be nice if I could have one or two to work off of when I'm testing the narrative video segments and playing with my selection of Yukino Miazawa images to pick the ones best fit for the style of the narration.
Hai. I will get those in tonight.
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Post by rose4emily » Sun Oct 10, 2004 6:02 am

Cool.

I'll finish collecting my Kawashima caps from Kare Kano this evening, and probably gather a few more members of the "crew" off of Bebop and Lain. I'll also finish shading in the elevator drawing and scan that so you all can see it.

While looking to see if I had enough Miazawa pics, I happened to catch Otohiko's headshot on the screen next to the first of the two Kensuke images I've chosen for the intro. The resemblence is rather amusing.

The image gathering process is taking a while because I've set my heart upon retouching each of them so they'll be pristine when I run them through the encoding process, and so none of them will have distracting or clashing backgrounds that might ruin the illusion that all of these images are supposed to have been taken in the same studio.

Concerning the DVD idea that came up and then went away a while back, one of my roomates has all of the equipment and experience needed to pull it off. I don't know if he has the time to show me how to use all of that fancy (and obscenely expensive) Apple technology, but producing a short run of DVDs (enough for all of the editors, anyhow - and you could reproduce those as you see fit) might have actually become something I can realistically do. I'll worry about making the animated "glue" and a shiny new webpage first, though, to get at least the mainstream release out to the public before Jasper has to start crossing not only months, but also years out of her signature.

I'll definately have a better recording setup to work when I do the widescreen narrative, now that I know people with full access to a cage full of professional audio and video equipment.

But, first, I must dig up my C++ references and write some code for a project due this midnight. Ah, the joy of low-level memory management...
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Post by Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] » Sun Oct 10, 2004 8:40 am

rose4emily wrote:
Concerning the DVD idea that came up and then went away a while back,
That hasn't gone away, I'm just waiting for the project to nearer completion before working on them ;p I'd like to still work on them, as I have big plans to try and make them realy nice. I even considered having a "the Making of" on it, but I think thats probably going overboard :lol: We having enough trouble as it is finishing the actual project ;p
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Post by Otohiko » Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:57 am

Bakadeshi [AuN Studios] wrote: I even considered having a "the Making of" on it, but I think thats probably going overboard :lol: We having enough trouble as it is finishing the actual project ;p
Hehe, I'll help you with that if you want - if there's anything of possible value to be made there as an extra feature, I'm all for it.

I'd definitely want to get me a bunch of those DVD's for myself, resource-permitting - for giving out to people, possibly pimping it at the local anime club and whatnot.
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Post by rose4emily » Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:24 am

I have finished collected the remainder of the screencaps and other images I need to create the intro, and I've finished retouching and alpha-matting almost all of of the ones I plan on using more than once, and a few of the ones that are just going to slide in and out of view during the intro.

Other than gathering a few more angles of the NERV crew working on stuff and a set of Kawashima images to match the ones I had collected of Yukino, most of the rest are "topic" images like the bits of random footage sometimes shown at the opening of news and documentary programs. I think the wood vaneer images that I collected earlier will be all I need for "textures" that I'm not making with gradients. I've posted most of the ones that are ready for use, and am adding the rest to the "outbox/intro/characters" folder of the FTP as they are edited and renamed.

I've recieved the first three narratives from Songbird, and am now able to put together a narrative preview for you all, which should probably be done some time tomorrow.

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Songbird: I do wonder on the pronunciation of a couple of the words in the description of "Tomoe in the Moonlight". It might just be the fact that I'm not used to hearing French words in the context of an English accent, but "Debussy", "bass", and "Burgmanesque" seemed a bit off. Going off of how my piano teacher always said the three words (he's a fairly fluent speaker of French and Spanish as well as English), I'd say they are:

Day + beau (as in the first syllable of 'Beauty') + see (or 'sea', take your pick)

Bass as in 'baseball', 'bass guitar', or 'all your base are belong to us' - as opposed to "sea bass" or "Big-Mouth Billy Bass".

Burg (as in 'Iceberg' or or 'Burger King') + man (as in adult male) + esque (as in "picturesque" or the first syllable of "escape").

Other than the pronunciation of these three words, though, I think everything very clear and nicely paced. I might try to use some light noise removal or a lowpass filter to take the edge off of some of the inevitable crackling - but, even as is, the audio quality is a vast improvement over my first recording attempt.

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I still have to get to the Video cage in the arts building to borrow one of their mics. I'll probably have to wait in line for an hour holding one of those little bits of numbered paper you get at the deli section of the grocery store, but i'll most likely be able to get a professional condenser with XLR connectors, shockmount, and external windscreen - which should be pretty sweet (and exactly what I need to be able to get the kind of high-frequency definition I'll need to get my voice to come out anywhere near as clear as Songbird's).

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So far I have the end-credit video images from the following people:

Otohiko (for both of his submissions)
Rose4Emily (well, I should hope so) :)

and photographic portraits of three people:

Jasper-Isis
Otohiko
Rose4Emily (just dug out my Palm this morning to take it. a bit blurry, but it'll do)

These are up on the FTP as well, if you want to see examples for the three videos and three people of which I currently have images. I'll be applying to each of the video-identifying pictures the same two-part border I've put on the portraits:

Image [cropped to 268x268, or scaled if cropping would ruin the image's composition]
2px black inner border
8px white outer border

268px + 2x2px + 2x8px = 288px (the target image size)

This will help to make sure all of the images stand out from the background nicely, and to make them look more like they belong in a set.

No big rush on getting the rest of these pictures in, but you might want to think about how you could best represent your videos in a one simple frame.

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I've been doing way too much photo manipulation lately. My sister's the photo major. I should have her do all of this for me, and get back to programming. Ah, but she's just starting out as a freshmen, and I've had all of this extra practice... :)
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Post by Songbird21 » Mon Oct 11, 2004 10:01 am

rose4emily wrote:Songbird: I do wonder on the pronunciation of a couple of the words in the description of "Tomoe in the Moonlight". It might just be the fact that I'm not used to hearing French words in the context of an English accent, but "Debussy", "bass", and "Burgmanesque" seemed a bit off.
Do you need me to redo them? It's no problem. :)
rose4emily wrote:Other than the pronunciation of these three words, though, I think everything very clear and nicely paced. I might try to use some light noise removal or a lowpass filter to take the edge off of some of the inevitable crackling - but, even as is, the audio quality is a vast improvement over my first recording attempt.
:) Thank you. My husband gave me an idea of holding the microphone upside down above my mouth instead of the other way around. Nearly eliminates any poping noises. :)
rose4emily wrote:(and exactly what I need to be able to get the kind of high-frequency definition I'll need to get my voice to come out anywhere near as clear as Songbird's).
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Post by jasper-isis » Mon Oct 11, 2004 11:52 am

rose4emily wrote:So far I have the end-credit video images from the following people:

Otohiko (for both of his submissions)
Rose4Emily (well, I should hope so) :)
Mine were up too (but not on your ftp). I linked them in the same post as my photos.

So which one of my photos did you decide to use? The one with trees in the background is a little oversaturated with red, so you might have to tone that down a little.
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Post by downwithpants » Mon Oct 11, 2004 7:07 pm

hey song, before you redo mine, it's bergamasque, not bergmanasque. i think it's pronounced bare-zhe-MASK where "zh" is the soft z sound, like in "vision". according to dictionary.com debussy is pronounced duh-byoo-SEE (like: dub you see). If our canadians who know french know how to pronounce bergamasque, they'd probably have a better guess than me.

rose- you might want to email or pm some of the people who haven't replied recently, like ooshna and aznraver, about the new pictures. i dno if they still check the forum thread.
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