archived-videos The Gold

[TSX666]

Hello everybody!

Here's an shortfilm about time, when the men were from the steel and the guns were smoking!
At the time when the wild west was infernal...

http://212.50.195.124/oppilaat/media/sivut/terosaikkonen/thegold.avi
26mgs

Dive in for couple of minutes in the fields of west where two hard-boiled machos meets when the gold says the immortal rules...

 

[WideShot]

I thought I should let everyone know that this is claymation, and I'm not sure what codec you used but 60.6mb for 3:30 is a bit high you might want to try divx, xvid, wmv, or a flavor of mov next time.

 

[indietalk]

Moved to Animation.

 

[TSX666]

Well, now its only 26mgs. I haven't found any better compression format.

But what about the film?

 

[Boz Uriel]

Well I've never seen anything like it so I like it.

The characters aren't new but the situation sure is. Blinking/shifting eyes would have been good. There were some camera angles I think could have been improved. The first shot fired for instance. Could have been an under the elbow shot then dolly in on the one being shot. Instead of just falling down stiffly, it would have been better to have him crumble to the ground, ie. double over, fall to knees, drop gun, fall to hands, finally face in dust sort of thing. Or find new and interesting ways of making shots, POV of gun sights for Santa's gun maybe.

I enjoyed it. Good work, could use some polish.

 

[grafikdon]

Totally different but could use some blinking ayes... just some tweaking and you will get there. I enjoyed it though.

 

[NicklausLouis]

Fun little animation.

Spoiler

Gotta love it when Santa takes his anger out on those who have been naughty.

I didn't have a problem with the chosen camera angles, because I think they are homages to great westerns of yesteryear (namely Sergio Leone's films). But the animation was jerky, and that could be improved.

Poke