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Steve Vs The Giant Alien Potato!

Postby sondog » Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:28 pm

Well, it's not exactly Manga but...here's a little stop-motion animated short (STEVE VS THE GIANT ALIEN
POTATO!) that my 13-year old nephew and I created recently. It's a
little rough but I think it's pretty funny: :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbiJHDfaV8o
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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:34 pm

Hahaha, that was awesome!

Though when his shirt said "SS", I couldn't help but think of the Schutzstaffel, as in German SS Officers.
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Postby sondog » Wed Apr 16, 2008 3:45 pm

well...uh, no -- the "ss" stands for Super Steve. The Nazis don't own the alphabet...:lol:
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Postby Warrior4Christ » Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:13 pm

Hehe, that was cool! You certainly have a talent for stop motion/computer animation.
Just curious: where did you get the music from?
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Postby ChristianKitsune » Wed Apr 16, 2008 5:34 pm

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

that was amazing, SonDog! ^_^

Great work.
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Postby Kanerou » Wed Apr 16, 2008 6:34 pm

:wow!: ShatterheartArk is a superhero?

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Postby SnoringFrog » Wed Apr 16, 2008 7:12 pm

ROFL. That was awesome. Haha...yeah, it was interesting.
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Postby Sheenar » Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:28 pm

That was awesome! You sure have been given a talent for animation ...and a lot of patience...
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Postby Tsukuyomi » Wed Apr 16, 2008 8:37 pm

Hahaha, I so thought it was going to be about our Steve here XDD

Nice work ^^ It kinda reminded me of Real Life Consequences :lol: The Giant Alien Potato can be Head Crab and SS can be John Freeman XDD
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Postby uc pseudonym » Thu Apr 17, 2008 1:56 pm

The noise made by every hit is probably the best part.

sondog wrote:The Nazis don't own the alphabet...

Or so they would like you to believe.
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Postby RidleyofZebes » Thu Apr 17, 2008 4:09 pm

Tsukuyomi (post: 1217894) wrote:Hahaha, I so thought it was going to be about our Steve here XDD

Nice work ^^ It kinda reminded me of Real Life Consequences :lol: The Giant Alien Potato can be Head Crab and SS can be John Freeman XDD


I do believe you mean Gordon Freeman... Right, Tsuku-chan? :sweat:
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Postby Tsukuyomi » Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:09 pm

RidleyofZebes (post: 1218229) wrote:I do believe you mean Gordon Freeman... Right, Tsuku-chan? :sweat:

Eep, yes yes.. meh bad xDD;

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Postby Sparx00 » Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:16 pm

Dude! I laughed my rear off when he hit the light pole. XDD
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Postby Doubleshadow » Fri Apr 18, 2008 4:17 pm

Further proof that all Alien Invasion Preparedness Kits should include aluminum foil in next to the duct tape.
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Postby Sparx00 » Thu Apr 24, 2008 11:55 am

You should make anoter one, I'm sure it'll be great!
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Postby minakichan » Thu Apr 24, 2008 6:03 pm

A-freaking-dorable.
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Postby sondog » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:34 am

Warrior4Christ (post: 1217848) wrote:Hehe, that was cool! You certainly have a talent for stop motion/computer animation.
Just curious: where did you get the music from?


I got the music from a number of sources -- various right-free music libraries (mostly Smartsound) that I have purchased over the years, plus some sound effect libraries.

Thanks so much to you all for the encouragement and kind words. It was a lot of fun, but if I do anymore stopmotion, I probably won't use Lego's. They are very difficult to animate! :dizzy:
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Postby AJV » Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:36 pm

Nice Movie!:thumb:
I like the special effects and stuff.
Good story,too.

It was a lot of fun, but if I do anymore stopmotion, I probably won't use Lego's. They are very difficult to animate!:dizzy:


Weird...I've always heard that Lego were easier to animate.
I still prefer to animate with Lego, though I've tried other things like Minimates.

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Postby sondog » Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:21 pm

Thanks, glad you liked my little flick! :)

Weird...I've always heard that Lego were easier to animate.
I still prefer to animate with Lego, though I've tried other things like Minimates.


The strength of Lego is that you can quickly create all kinds of fun worlds and backgrounds. And it also has a lot of pre-fab little people to work with. But the work of animating the little people is very difficult compared to working with larger, more flexible models. That's why professional stop motion models are all much larger than Lego people.

But of course the problem is that if you don't work with Lego products, you have to make your own models or pay a premium for them. But if you want to do anything professional with stop motion (ie - actually sell your videos or create product for others to sell), then you can't legally use products owned by others (like Lego products).
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Postby Raiden no Kishi » Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:01 pm

sondog (post: 1247175) wrote:Thanks, glad you liked my little flick! :)



The strength of Lego is that you can quickly create all kinds of fun worlds and backgrounds. And it also has a lot of pre-fab little people to work with. But the work of animating the little people is very difficult compared to working with larger, more flexible models. That's why professional stop motion models are all much larger than Lego people.

But of course the problem is that if you don't work with Lego products, you have to make your own models or pay a premium for them. But if you want to do anything professional with stop motion (ie - actually sell your videos or create product for others to sell), then you can't legally use products owned by others (like Lego products).


Well, you'd have to work out some sort of licensing deal with LEGO, anyway . . . after all, they used LEGO to make the music video for The White Stripes' "Fell in Love With a Girl" (great video, BTW - look it up if you haven't seen it). As long as you grease the appropriate palms . . .

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Postby sondog » Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:08 pm

yeah, but I'm sure we're talking about a significant amount of grease... ;)
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Postby Etoh*the*Greato » Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:29 pm

How recently did you do this? Pretty neat!
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Postby sondog » Mon Jul 21, 2008 4:37 pm

How recently did you do this? Pretty neat!


Thanks. We (my nephew Zach and I) made it in March of this year.



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