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Start with a fun, classic, B&W children's film short.
The frames are printed onto place mat-sized pages and distributed them all over the world to Denny's, IHOP, Red Robin, and Chuckecheese restaurants along with a million boxes of Crayola So-Big(tm) crayons.
Children are free to color the
mats to their satisfaction and the images are gathered up in exchange for free movie tickets.
Once back in the studio, the now colorized frames are cleaned of salt and ketchup stains before being compiled back into an animated format.
Waking life
http://www.thousand...com/pro/waking.html
a glimpse [k_sra, Oct 04 2004]
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(colorIZED ?! For fucks sake) |
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squeak, either spelling is accepted here! |
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Yeah, squeak, watch what you say or we'll take you out back and beat you up with baseball bats. |
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that'll make him squeak for sure! |
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This would look terrible. You'd get different colours used for the same thing in consecutive frames. You'd get inaccurate colouring. + |
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BTW [squeak] - sp. fuck's. |
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That's what I was thinking too, Silly. Every image would be flashing colors continuously. People would have seizures watching this. |
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I love the lesson on the possessive use of fuck. |
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Besides, this is a Widely Used technique, both in animation and just plain special effects, making films look like they've been colored in by kids. Never watch Sesame Street? |
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[waugs: that's a common London-ism, albeit missing an apostrophe.] |
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silly, (sp) not necessarily. |
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That wobbling effect is known as 'boiling'. (The classic UK cartoon 'Roobarb & Custard' was coloured with magic markers to give it that property) |
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//Never watch Sesame Street?// |
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[DrC] - I don't think you need the question mark for a suggestion. |
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Alternate possessive: fucks' sake. |
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First, this is a great idea. + |
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I think the wibble, or boiling, only adds to the visual character and interest of the result. |
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Since the material has to be reassembled--scanned--a frame at a time, editors can discard cels that are too far out. Depending on how widely distributed the placemat cels, the editors may have many choices for each frame of the film. The children whose work is accepted can receive a letter or certificate commemorating the acceptance of their colorization frame and, perhaps, even the consecutive frame number, or edge number, of their contribution. |
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It might be interesting to distribute different scenes to different countries to see the results of cultural differences on the moods and colors of the finished scenes in comparison to others. |
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For an attempt at color consistency, the studio can use a classic children's film in color, too; no reason to start with material that is black and white. If you did use color original, then you can have a color frame thumbnail printed on each placemat cel that the children can use as a color reference. |
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Alternatively, the placemat cels could be printed in color, each region having a flat field of the appropriate color and with the children coloring atop of it. This would help prevent leaks of uncolored regions. I don't think that that would be as satisfying for the children or for the results, though. |
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One thing is for sure: the credits for the ink and paint department would be very long . . . about 86,000 of 'em per hour of finished material (at 24P). |
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I agree wholeheartedly with [bristolz], this is a wonderful idea. + |
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The movie Waking Life approximates this notion. Frankly, I'd like to try it myself. |
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I don't object too much to the colour/color spelling question. It's the "ized" bit. "Coloured by Kids", please not bloody colorized. Sounds like something Dubbya would say. |
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Other than that I *would* give this a croissant because I like the idea. Unfortunately I find the title indescribably irritating. |
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Colorized and colorization are the terms used in the motion media industry for technique of adding, re-color timing, or re-coloring a work. This idea is about film and the term, in this context, is appropriate and communicates succinctly. When I read the expression "colorized by kids" I imagine an animated result. Not so the expression "colored by kids." |
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Oh, alright. I stand corrected on the film industry terminology. Still doesn't mean I have to like it. |
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It's kinda whacked that you assume I have a "puritan" view of the english language because I don't like "ized" [bristolz]. It's a preference not a life decision. |
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I can't stand the word "penalised" either. Or "puce". |
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squeak: no one seems to be assuming anything, except you. If you want to revel in your idiosyncratic spelling, that's fine, just don't bitch and moan about other people's regional variants in an international forum. |
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Besides, the Puritans didn't spell the same word the same way twice. Get with the program. |
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Yeah, I agree and changed the "whacked" part before you posted, [squeak]. |
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Hey [DC]. I wasn't the one who brought the puritan thing up. <whinges> He started it. Tell *him* he's used the word puritan incorrectly.<whinges> Oh. He took it off. |
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By the way. What films were you thinking of... <grits teeth> colorizing. Do you mean films or cartoons.
I saw a great short film of Alice Through the Looking Glass that had been filmed with actors and then the outlines were traced with pen and filled with pale, washed colours. It made the result a bit wobbly but also extremely magical. Different from anything I've seen before. There's probably a name for the procedure. |
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Or the term "him" being used inappropriately. |
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Like [po] did for me, you mean? |
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Would you prefer to be known as hymn? |
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sorry squeak! genuine mistake, it was something you said. |
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I don't have a problem with it, it amuses me. |
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God, you guys bitch a lot. Its a wonder anything gets done around here. |
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/filmed with actors and then the outlines were traced with pen and filled with pale, washed colours// |
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I think that technique is called 'ray-tracing'. It was used for some scenes in the Ralph Bakshi animated version of Lord of the Rings. |
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Actually the term for that technique is "rotoscoping". |
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It is "WTAGIPBAN", [fogfreak], but thanks for beating me to it. |
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Ray tracing is a rendering technique for 3D computer generated imagery. |
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I thought Ray Tracing was a comic book detective. |
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Don't worry [po]. It doesn't bother me at all either. No need to apologise. You are free to think that I'm male, female, transexual etc. as you please. Hell, think of me as a small, black, hermaphrodite cat who likes walking on keyboards if you want. I'm easy. |
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<off-topic>That's one way of expressing it I suppose. I suspect that film is great to watch while high. It has a few fantastic twists and turns. Great ending, apres moi.</off-topic> |
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whoops, must have deleted my comment the moment you posted. (I was worried I might offend someone who enjoyed the movie) |
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well, now you know my answer. : ) |
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If you average each pixel, the really crazy ones won't show much. If 10 out of the 100,000 kids coloring it made it look really screwed up, the screwup wouldn't show. |
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It would take years to scan each frame in. Maybe you could (interpolate?) the pictures (illustration one only has lines 1, 4, 7, 10, etc. scanned and illustration two has 2, 5, 8, 11, and so on scanned.) |
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Do you mean years to scan each movie in? I don't think years - you could even set up a machine to auto-feed them in. |
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Well, with thousands of entries per frame, you would have to scan tons of paper, regardless of whether you have an auto feed sustem in place. |
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Virtually every 2D (cel based) movie involves scanning all of the line art into the ink/paint and dope sheet modules for the final assembly. Usually the cels are scanned using an sheet feed Fujitsu flatbed scanner. The input module recognizes the cel pin holes on the first cel and auto registers all subsequent cels. |
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This is a fantastic idea with historical
precedent, technological feasiblity, and
true artisitc vision. Preheat the oven
and start kneading the dough,
"Colorized by Kids" is great recipie for
cinnamonatic baked goods. [spiraliii] is
a perfect name for either an animator or
a pastry chef. |
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There are numerous examples of
animated film where lines, shapes, and
colors swirl discontinuously between
frames. In previous annos, [bristolz] has
well covered the practical filmmaking
considerations, and with the latest CGI
tools open infinite image manipulation
options to the inventive stop motion
movie magician. |
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Using legions of kids to ink the cells is
inspired and would surely have
interesting and unexpected results. In
making the coffee table box, " A Day in
the Life of Australia," the editors
distributed disposable cameras to
children to snap pictures to include in
the collection. "Pee Wee's Playhouse"
had a segment called "Penny" where
claymation figures illustrated the free
consciousness stories of youngins.
I like. |
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//Its a wonder anything gets done around here// HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! |
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