[Klug-general] Meeting Themes

[James Morris]

On 9 June 2012 01:00, James Morris <jwm.art.net at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 June 2012 19:52, Kevin Groves
> <kgroves at ksoft-electrical-projects.co.uk> wrote:
>> I don't know I anyone has made any serious moves to come up with anything
>> for our meet end of July but I'm planning to show Lego movie making:
>>
>> 1. Stop frame animation of Lego against blue/green screen (Stopmotion)
>> 2. Creating the scene with a still image behind the blue/green screen
>> 'filmed' scene (One Shot Video Editor)
>> 3. If its long enough will do a sound track for it using Hydroden and Linux
>> Multimedia Studio.
>>
>> Over the next few weeks will play with the technique. Would be nice to
>> actually do the full stop motion on the day if I can work out a simple cycle
>> animation. I was going to do Blender backdrops but I don't think I will have
>> my render farm back up and running in time. But this is more fun than CGI
>> anyway.
>
> Hi Kev,
>
> This sounds good fun, I'd definitely be interested to see. And the
> mentioning of a sound track and the tools you want to use brings me to
> consider yet again my good intentions of showing what can be done with
> JACK Audio Connection Kit... But, don't know, I wouldn't want to be
> too sensible and show something useful... Perhaps a demonstration of
> some software I've been working on - Boxyseq and Petri-Foo...

It's surprising how easy it is to offer to do something when you know
no one will take you up on it. Can't imagine what I was thinking in
offering to do something I'd never really do unless forced at gun
point. Sorry. End of.

James.