Here are a few comedy sketches recreated by myself in animated form. All comments welcome thanks!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VCEx5An9Ks
Comedy cartoons
Derek? I was pleasantly surprised at these. I think that the Muvizu et al genre has great potential.
I take it that it's early days in your cartoon film career (?)..
I feel that you could be much more irreverent in your cartoon characterisations: Diara (imo) wasn't fat enough, his head should be out of proportion with his body.. and he could be dressed much more comedically, with a sterotypical Irish slant..
Ditto Father Ted..
..and you were over-kind with the HIGNFY crew imo..
There's also the possibility of splicing audio..
Have a look at this: it's not Muvizu- it's clay stop motion, but the characterisations are much more what I'm trying to describe..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuLEuIIZr_s
All the best.
Not sure what the point is to animating already filmed scenes, but it looks ok. I'd suggest, with the Dara one anyway, animating the story he's telling, as is done during The Ricky Gervais Show animations. Seems a bit pointless otherwise.
The idea was to recreate the clips as faithfully as possible.
Here's something of my own http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nompl562qRA
and here's one of a series I've been creating over the last few months
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHOmUMTcpmo
It only takes me a few hours to create these from script to animation to final edit. So I can sit and watch Sky news in the morning, decide what I'm going to do and have the animation done by mid afternoon.
The turn around Time for the Muvizu program is incredibly fast by normal animation standards.
Cheers
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I still think that my previous point applies: the characterisation, or rather, the caricature aspect needs work..
..and audio splicing (mixing together different speech/news items/interviews/TV shows etc) is a potential goldmine.. much more time-consuming though.
But it's got potential, imo.
All the best.
I think they look great but like Nil I'm struggling to see the point of them, they need funny source material to be funny, the comparison to the Ricky Gervais Show is a good one.
Having said that I'd love to see one of my stand up routines animated so that it looked like I was on "Live at the Apollo".
The ability to make the caricatured look of the characters more extreme is limited due to the software used.
The first videos posted were only created to show what was possible with Muvizu (the animation software)
My second post has videos which were written and voiced by myself
I first downloaded Muvizu and started creating little animations just over a year ago. Since then I have managed to churn out around 40 cartoons.
I posted these videos on this forum as I thought that others may find Muvizu a useful tool to present their own material in animated form.
Muvizu is free to download and use for non commercial use and can be found here...
http://www.muvizu.com/Download/
Hope it is of help to someone
Cheers
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I liked your dog sketch Dreeko 
How long would something like that take to make?
Quote: Will Cam @ December 3 2011, 10:33 AM GMTI liked your dog sketch Dreeko
How long would something like that take to make?
Thanks for the thumbs up for the dog sketch!
The time it would take to create the sketch with Muvizu once you have the script and have created the audio is roughly a couple of hours.
Very simple set created for that one.
Just been tweeted by Dara O Briain!
@daraobriain
No idea who did this, or why, but , it turns out, animated, I don't look like Gru from Despicable Me! Result! http://t.co/GeYbzGl2
Hurrah!
Quote: Dreeko @ December 5 2011, 2:36 PM GMTJust been tweeted by Dara O Briain!
@daraobriain
No idea who did this, or why, but , it turns out, animated, I don't look like Gru from Despicable Me! Result! http://t.co/GeYbzGl2Hurrah!
Lol, nice one mate
Enjoyed all of them. Great work.
Would be nice to write a new 10 min script for something like Father Ted. Obviously would need a good impressionist for the voices but it could be done.
Sadly my PC needs a graphics card upgrade before I can even run Muvizu.
