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Animated a really difficult shot today, and it turned out nicely. mini/cat

Sonjira wrote:

My big question is: How are you going to fit a goofy, comedic character like Munchy into such a dark and serious film?

That's a good question.
I Am The Night is somewhat serious, however somewhat comical every now and then, actually. This does have Joker and Riddler after all, so it's a bit easier. I'm trying to make something that blends many aspects of Batman, from Adam West to Nolan, plus a bit of something new.
I'm not 100% sure how it's going to work out, but that's what I'm doing, I like experimenting. Optimally, seriousness will add contrast to the goofiness, which could be nice.

Munchy is probably not going to be a big part of the film, though. Really tiny cameo somehow.

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Here are some pictures from a work in progress set:

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s720x720/315309_446020272087987_456094973_n.jpg

http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/s720x720/524135_446020335421314_1244619672_n.jpg

I think it's looking pretty nice so far for something which only has a single shot planned for it.

Sorry it's a bit dim here.
I'll do my best to make it brighter in the actual thing.

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looks good.

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Wow, that second pic is real detailed. I like it.

Have you seen a big-chinned boy?

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Pure awesomness!

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Looks pretty sweet! A couple things, as long as you're still working on the set: in the first picture, that machine the guy who's the farthest upstage, it looks like it's a futuristic little speeder mini/tongue I've never seen a piece of construction equipment like that, and if it's just there for looks, I'd suggest making something that looks a little more classical; however, if it's supposed to be odd-looking, and fits in with the storyline, then by all means, go right ahead. With the second picture, the TV screen isn't wide enough; practically all TV's these days are at least a stud or two longer than that, with the same height, and I don't think I've ever seen a flat-screen TV with anything close to those dimensions. I really dig that lamp, but you might want to add something else on the top; the way it is right now, it looks like a bare lightbulb, and unless that's the intent, it looks a little odd next to a flat-screen. The window, while amazing looking, is a little too large for an apartment, or any building that's right next to an alley/walkway like that; I love the window design, it's just like twice as large as it should be (windows in that kind of area would classically be higher rather than lower, by the way, in case you do make it smaller). The archway looks great, but having dark gray on top looks pretty odd; if you can change it so that there's a plate of dark gray all the way around, it'd be a good-looking doorway, but just at the top it looks weird. You could get an 8-wide arch, with tan 1X1 with holes, and keep the bottom of the plate texture going all the way around. But it's certainly a fantastic start!
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Thanks for the long and well thought out post.

The construction workers have nothing to do with the film, I just stuck them in there since the set is still under construction (Har har). And I really like my HLOLYTWAS, so I stuck it in there too, even though it's so mad.

As for the telly, I'm doing a very, very, very special thing with it which has required me to make a few sacrifices with the design, as it must be built as to fulfill it's function. Though it's a little bit odd, I'm sure it'll completely pay off when you see what it actually does.
(Because of the same reason I also can't put anything atop the lamp) It's supposed to be more of an odd fancy glowing orb decoration anyway.

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Great looking set! I'm guessing you are using Lifelites? If so, how do you like them? I'm wanting to purchase some or some other LEDs to start working with.

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Nope. Just flashlights/torches.
You can see the blue handle of one at the side of the first picture.
I also took the front of of it, exposing the tiny bulb. I did something similar with a smaller light for the orb which I stuck through a tiny hole on the wall behind the orb.

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Oh okay! Very cool. Thanks for the info! mini/smile

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Looks great! I really like the light in the second one, but find the Chinese/Japanese poster on the wall a little weird. mini/confused

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Then the owner of the house is a bad interior decorator.
(Best excuse ever)

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Hahaha...

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Oh yeah, one other thing that I noticed was the the tan wall in the middle/right of the second picture isn't totally pressed together (there are gaps).

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really good, i cannot wait and also what does a vortex animation studio mean??

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makerimages wrote:

what does a vortex animation studio mean??

It's what he calls his studio. Here's an explanation of why it's called that (from the previous page):

AnnoyingNoisesProductions wrote:

Because that's the name of the room itself. It has been so for years, long before I ever thought of making it into an animation studio.

Moving to this house 8 years ago, we stuffed a lot of unpacked rubbish into this side room upstairs. We got some stuff unpacked, however, it stayed a pretty awful and chaotic mess most of the time. We called this room "The Vortex" as it doesn't really suit the name of any room I can think of, and it summed up the disaster of a room pretty nicely. Some had tried to tame this wilderness, adding some organization to the chaos, but it was still a pretty bad most mess of the time, then it's power grew back again, an unrelenting beast of rubbish. However, after so many years, my brother Wilson decided he would conquer the Vortex once and for all for a new animation studio I was thinking up. So, after many, many months, he won. And the Vortex is now an organized neat room. Since we've called it the Vortex for so many years, I don't think I'll ever call it anything else.

Not literally dead, just no longer interested in Lego or animation.

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Show us the studio set plz

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makerimages wrote:

Show us the studio set plz

Go to ANP's Facebook, there are BTS pictures of vortex there.

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What's the name of his Facebook... I can't find AnnoyingNoisesProductions/Inc. or I found a lot of Harrison Allens.

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Here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Annoying- … 0201637330

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