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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/295127/#p295127</link>
			<description><![CDATA[I loved this. Great work.]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2013 21:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[quote=Walrus]However, when an entire building moves it's a little distracting.[/quote]
In my mind i justify that by imagining that the building themselves are alive :P  But yes, that was a particularly bad set bump. If I was doing this in any sort of professional manner I would have gone back and redone the offending frames. But my motto is to keep moving forward and learn from my mistakes for the next time. 

A lot of the set bumps and light flicker happened in the tan office where I was animating with a roof above the characters. That was a mistake. I will need to plan a lot better the next time I have a set with a roof]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (fallentomato)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:39:27 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[That was great!  The attention to detail, the sets, the animation, it was all great.  I especially loved the way you animated K0P3R, that was just astounding.  If I have one gripe, it's the occasional light flicker and the set bumps.  It's a minor complaint espicially considering the sheer size of your sets and how jam-packed with action each shot is.  However, when an entire building moves it's a little distracting.
Nevertheless.  Fantastic work!  Can't wait to see what you have planned for the future!]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Walrus)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:23:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/295061/#p295061</link>
			<description><![CDATA[[quote=Squid]One of the female officers looks remarkable like Agent Astrid Farnsworth from Fringe.[/quote]
I wasn't consciously thinking of her, but I think I was subconsciously influenced :) I haven't seen a lot of Fringe, but I've seen enough to know that Astrid is awesome]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 23:08:12 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/295043/#p295043</link>
			<description><![CDATA[One of the female officers looks remarkable like Agent Astrid Farnsworth from Fringe.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Squid)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:09:19 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/295038/#p295038</link>
			<description><![CDATA[Gosh, animation at its finest]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (PushOverProductions)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 20:55:00 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/295003/#p295003</link>
			<description><![CDATA[That's cool man. If I have time in the future I may be able to help you out. Just let me know.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (JoshWaFX)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 10:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[quote=JoshWaFX]This blew me away, just how much detail you manage to get into this. Animating all the crowds so flawlessly is just so impressive. I loved the way the minifigures were transformed into blue as well that looked really smooth. My only minor criticism is the graphics for the Police Show could of been better, however this may be minor but as a Graphic Designer I notice this kind of things lol :) but other than that I am really impressed with your work.[/quote]

I am definitely a beginner when it comes to motion graphics. I'd love to pay some one to do this for me, but NNN isn't making enough money for that, yet...]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (fallentomato)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:35:03 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[quote=FlyingMinifig][i]"My name is K-0-P-3-R.  I am skilled in over six million forms of torture."[/i] :lol: 
Am I right in guessing Rob-O-Phelia and K0P3R will be teaming up at some point in the future?[/quote] 

Well, within the NNNverse, K0P-3R is a character in a fictional show while ROBOphelia is a real-life robot. But the resemblance is intentional and is the beginning of a story arc I have planned spanning many future chapters. Suffice it to say that I hope to one day animate a scene in which ROBOphelia interviews the robot-actor who plays K0P-3R :) Though, at the rate I make these, it might be decades before I get that far along in the story. :/  

[quote=FlyingMinifig]Oh yes, and how did you animate the window smash?  Were there any special techniques you used, or was it just a matter of using a lot of rigs?[/quote]

I uploaded the raw pictures to [url=http://www.flickr.com/photos/fallentomato/sets/72157632621276520/with/8417962579/]flickr[/url] so you can see the window break frame by frame. I just used putty to attach the bricks to the building. I try to avoid rigs and masking at all costs. I think the only thing I masked in this animation was a few frames where the robotic horse jumping at K0P-3R.

[quote=FlyingMinifig]Random coincidence: When I watched this film, the youtube banner advertisement on the bottom of the video screen (the one that always pops up ten seconds after you've started the clip) had an ad that said "avoid paying green taxes!" and was something about renewable energy.  It occurred to me that this might actually secretly be an ad from Orange in order to dissuade viewers from donating money to the Green cause while the Orange-Green war rages on... :P  Only joking, of course, but I thought it was a funny coincidence. XD[/quote]

On YouTube there are no coincidences :P]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (fallentomato)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2013 03:28:05 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Well worth the wait, Dave! I must agree with everyone here, I liked how detailed everything was. Even though the film itself was about 1 minute and 45 seconds long (excluding the credits and the part after the video). Really great work!]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Mickey)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:53:24 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
			<link>https://bricksinmotion.com/forums/post/294963/#p294963</link>
			<description><![CDATA[This blew me away, just how much detail you manage to get into this. Animating all the crowds so flawlessly is just so impressive. I loved the way the minifigures were transformed into blue as well that looked really smooth. My only minor criticism is the graphics for the Police Show could of been better, however this may be minor but as a Graphic Designer I notice this kind of things lol :) but other than that I am really impressed with your work.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (JoshWaFX)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:14:32 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[[i]"My name is K-0-P-3-R.  I am skilled in over six million forms of torture."[/i] :lol: 

Anyway, great film.  Lots of very detailed sets, and the animation was superb, with great moments like the smashing window, and the most creative use of those Batman batarang bricks (not that I've really seen any other uses of that brick, but that's beside the point).  The only thing that I disliked was that the "Police Show! Police Show!" song got somewhat annoying after a while, but I enjoyed everything else.  

I was slightly disappointed that this was only about two minutes long, but I definitely think that detailed sets and background animation give this film a massive improvement, really makes it stand out, and adds a lot of  "re-watch quality".  It certainly makes up for the short length. :) 

Am I right in guessing Rob-O-Phelia and K0P3R will be teaming up at some point in the future? 

Oh yes, and how did you animate the window smash?  Were there any special techniques you used, or was it just a matter of using a lot of rigs?

Random coincidence: When I watched this film, the youtube banner advertisement on the bottom of the video screen (the one that always pops up ten seconds after you've started the clip) had an ad that said "avoid paying green taxes!" and was something about renewable energy.  It occurred to me that this might actually secretly be an ad from Orange in order to dissuade viewers from donating money to the Green cause while the Orange-Green war rages on... :P  Only joking, of course, but I thought it was a funny coincidence. XD]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Mr Vertigo)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 23:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Re: Police Show Commercial]]></title>
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			<description><![CDATA[[quote=Squid]So many random fun characters, all doing ridiculous stuff which just doesn't make any sense.
It's just like how it is in my head.[/quote]

Thanks! :D  I am particularly proud of the lady doing a backwards crab walk around 0:50]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (fallentomato)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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			<description><![CDATA[All of the animation an the detain in this just makes me feel like my films are lacking.
This is really great, and I love it.

So many random fun characters, all doing ridiculous stuff which just doesn't make any sense.
It's just like how it is in my head.]]></description>
			<author><![CDATA[dummy@example.com (Squid)]]></author>
			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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			<title><![CDATA[Police Show Commercial]]></title>
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[b]Police Show Commercial[/b]

[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdyY1qR6gps]YouTube[/url]
[url=http://www.nightlynewsatnine.com/?p=374]Downloadable version[/url]

"Police Show" is a show about police. This is a commercial for "Police Show." 

As usual I have put way too much time into constructing sets and characters which appear on screen for only a few seconds. I also spent a lot of time animating background characters in large crowd scenes. I like to tell myself that this makes my animation much more rewatchable as there is more to discover on repeat viewings, but maybe I'm just over-complicating things.

 Excited to hear what y'all think!]]></description>
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			<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jan 2013 22:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
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