Bricks in Motion
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I just made a test animation and forgot to save it correctly. I lost all my data. Needless to say, I got "grumpy." Please share your horrible animation experiences.
Two years ago, I lost my 12 minute long epic that I had worked on every day for 6 months. Now I use back up hard drives.
Two years ago, I lost my 12 minute long epic that I had worked on every day for 6 months. Now I use back up hard drives.
Wow, I feel for you man.
I'm in the post production stage for my new movie How to Not Rob a Bank. My program messed up and I lost several weeks of progress in sound editing. D:
Also, I made a short Harry Potter film where I photo shopped the old voldemort's yellow face to be pale in EVERY. SINGLE. INDIVIDUAL. FRAME. After spending nearly nine hours on this action, I found that the animation had turned out awfully, and my lighting had horribly failed.
Also, I made a short Harry Potter film where I photo shopped the old voldemort's yellow face to be pale in EVERY. SINGLE. INDIVIDUAL. FRAME. After spending nearly nine hours on this action, I found that the animation had turned out awfully, and my lighting had horribly failed.
Haha, I've done that before. I had imported the wrong files (I had filmed the one scene twice, and the first was rubbish so I redid it), and I didn't realise until I had finished the whole thing.
That seems to happen to me every time I try to mask something.
I was working on my scrapped ToY film (My THIRD scrapped ToY film) Rapid Brain Development. I spent hours on the few shots after the one I put a sneak preview of on YouTube. Then I watched it. The light flicker was THROUGH THE PROVERBIAL ROOF. My whole scene ruined. 
Can we post trashy failed animations on this too?
My masking s**ks, and I am not satisfied with what I animated today.
By the way, It will be hard to fill out the 30 seconds of my TOY entry.
During fight scenes when one of the figures falls over and domino effects the other one.
I die inside.
Oh... I hate that... 
xD
Stop Motion Pro glitches on me sometimes. Like yesterday, for instance. The other day, I did some test animation and played it from start to finish on that day. When I tried playing it yesterday, there was a delay from when I hit play and when it actually played. While it was playing, some of the frames stuck in place. I didn't touch it from the time I played it normally to when it glitched up!
I lost my second completed brickfilm, Legozilla, to computer problems shortly after finishing it. LEGO Studios wasn't very stable software.
Half a million times something's gone wrong when I've transferred pictures from the animating laptop to the Mac. Now I copy files before putting them onto the disk drive, then make sure it is fully ejected and safe to be pulled out. Long story short, don't be impatient kids.
Oh, and then there's days I just can't settle to animating and end up wasting my afternoon on animation I know won't work out. @!£$ me for trying. [/rage]
During the production of 'The Ship That Stood Still', I was deleting files I don't want/need, and I deleted a folder named
TSTSS Audio (This had all my voice actor lines, sound effects ect.) then I went to Recycle Bin and emptied it.
The Next Day... Yeah, I went mega-agro-p'ed off-crazy thing-fit/attack ect. (Including some very bad words you shouldn't repeat!) .That is one the reasons I cancelled it, and shows my random short acts of stupidity.
-Rob
One time I spent this whole long time animating a small-scale spaceship against a black background (which works well if done right) And then when I played it back I figured out that my fingers were like in every single picture.
the first two brick films i ever made where ment to be a Starwars EP1 spoof, and when I got near the end of post production and had almost done it'd never save...
THAC
I think that sums it all up, doesn't it?
When I was making my THAC entry last year, I animated the first shot towards the end, and it took me 30 minutes to get a decent animation (it was all just walking). When I was editing later, I realized that I forgot to add the mod element. I made this mistake in a couple different shots as well. This added 2 more hours to my workload. But I was able to enter. So it's all good.
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