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A travelling Fool sets up his puppet stage on a barren planet, and re-enacts an old story. Stop-motion animation.


Music - John Garden. Everything else - Me.
Nikon Capture 4, StopMotionPro 5, Mirage, Lightwave 5.6

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MyToons Animation - annaxbanana1

April 30, 2008 @ 06:18AM
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that was crazy i realy liked the idea of the whole thing =)

MyToons Animation - standby4ction

April 25, 2008 @ 01:03PM
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Fairy Tales

Nick, I've always thought fairy tales, legends and suchlike work extremely well in stopmotion. s it because it's a more naive seeming medium - like comics?
Thanks for sharing that

MyToons Animation - neebo

April 20, 2008 @ 12:31AM
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Very nice stop-motion animation indeed. Hope we can see masterpieces like this much more here...

MyToons Animation - cragdolomite

March 23, 2008 @ 05:44AM
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spellbinding

amazing creativity and ingenuity

MyToons Animation - wigwam

February 14, 2008 @ 12:51PM
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I am spellbound!

Would you adam and eve it?


Just so beautiful, entrancing and subtle and highly skilled.


Thankyou for making my day.

MyToons Animation - slaka16789

January 27, 2008 @ 06:50PM
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good

damn good.

MyToons Animation - asmanyz

January 14, 2008 @ 12:22PM
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: D

what to say afterall?

MyToons Animation - ajgebaur

January 12, 2008 @ 11:49AM
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wow

That was really good. Thats must taken a long time to make.

MyToons Animation - CellocasterPaul

January 08, 2008 @ 05:21PM
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Wow!

Just saw an article on this site in the Milwaukee paper, found you, and just wanted to say thanks for your incredible work!  I hope you are richly rewarded for this incredible work- the whole world should see this!

MyToons Animation - jessica

December 20, 2007 @ 04:05PM
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Good Grief Nick -

You are SO talented.

 Thanks for sharing. =) 

MyToons Animation - animramesh

December 11, 2007 @ 09:04AM
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hi NIck

Nice Concept. Nice Work.

MyToons Animation - James

November 30, 2007 @ 12:43PM
James
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yaaa!

ya this plain rocks! I just watched it again:) amazing work!

MyToons Animation - antoniolin

November 23, 2007 @ 06:21AM
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Thanks for your answer

Thanks a lot for answering, Nick! It was very helpful.

Good luck in your next projects, all of us are willing to see it.

MyToons Animation - zeromano

November 22, 2007 @ 05:41PM
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amazing

just one man for all this?

wow! i can't believe it. nickh, you're a very talented animator who should be involve in bigger project. you did this on your own (exept the music) i would see a movie that you made with a full staff and more money

 

MyToons Animation - TempleDog

November 22, 2007 @ 05:38PM
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well done!

Bloody hell, mate, but that was good.  Great creation myth, and yer timing and pacing are spot-on.  All that and a klesmer soundtrack...oy! 

MyToons Animation - NickH

November 21, 2007 @ 08:04PM
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framerate

Thanks guys for all the nice comments!


antoniolin - I shot on ones at 25 fps. I uploaded it from a Quicktime with very little compression (H264), PAL 720 x 576 letterboxed, but Mytoons compresses it before uploading. 


I captured on my 5 year old Pentium 4, 3 GHZ, 1 MB RAM computer, but did most of the compositing and editing on a Mac G5 with 4 times the RAM.


On my office computer, playback of this film is jerky.  It seems to have dropped the framerate to 12 fps, and  freezes and jumps a few times.  I'm glad to hear it plays better on faster computers (or faster broadband than we have in Australia)!


 I haven't had the spare time to do new film yet. Maybe next year, now that I've had this encouragement.


 


 

MyToons Animation - antoniolin

November 21, 2007 @ 04:58PM
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a technical question...

Hi, congratulations! Wonderful film.

 

I was curious about a detail: the framerate in your video is very smooth, and quality is fine too, unlike many here in Mytoons, including mine. In which format/codec did you upload the file? Or are you using a super fast computer...

 

Anyway, congratulations again! 

MyToons Animation - Meechy

November 20, 2007 @ 05:14PM
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Superb

You my friend are a great story teller. The story was instantly recognizable and the way you portraited it was simple, powerful and elegant.

MyToons Animation - Bli

November 20, 2007 @ 03:30PM
Bli
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well done

a well deserved win ... loverly stuff!

 

 

MyToons Animation - coolie

November 20, 2007 @ 03:04PM
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good golly

Mrs. Molly! This is straight crazy good.

MyToons Animation - SierraRose

November 20, 2007 @ 07:45AM
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Thoroughly enjoyable

Terrific film! I loved everything about it.

MyToons Animation - MokshaProyects

November 20, 2007 @ 06:30AM
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excellent ¡¡¡

Splendid, very nice, very creative and ingenous.

MyToons Animation - cherokeerobot

November 19, 2007 @ 11:22PM
cherokeerobot

Amazing!

I loved this. Great job I hope to see more from you in the future!

  

MyToons Animation - djotaku

November 19, 2007 @ 09:58PM
djotaku
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wow!

absolutely the most creative thing I've seen this year!

MyToons Animation - toonertime

November 19, 2007 @ 08:36PM
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congratulations

a wonderful animation

so I have to ask....

what do you do in your

SPARE time?? 

MyToons Animation - sounas

November 19, 2007 @ 05:56PM
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nice!

that was great!

MyToons Animation - daledale

November 18, 2007 @ 11:18PM
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..

wow, im so glad the prize went to something that really deserved it, fantastic work! coming from a stopmo guy i know the work that went into that, what are you doing now?

MyToons Animation - applenikki

November 18, 2007 @ 04:37PM
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It's perfect!

Wow! I really love the story, characters, animation and everything! Congratulations for the award!

MyToons Animation - reinis

November 17, 2007 @ 06:10AM
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!

Congratulations!

MyToons Animation - bgrh

November 16, 2007 @ 01:49PM
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Wonderful, wonderful

A very good story and a wonderful production.

Bravo! 

MyToons Animation - cg_flipper

September 07, 2007 @ 01:27PM
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blown away

EXCELLENT SPIN ON THE OLD TALE ..

BRAVO! 

MyToons Animation - jenne

September 06, 2007 @ 10:33AM
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-

That was just awesome. Love it, love it, love it. You are incredibly talented, I must say.

MyToons Animation - James

August 31, 2007 @ 01:43PM
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dang

dang, that was great man...the transformation was well done. sick job.

MyToons Animation - 3dfanboi

August 31, 2007 @ 11:31AM
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1 BIG spear up!

Nice job man, that was insane, and I love the time period, that is my style:) that monk style guy was rocking it up!

MyToons Animation - Holrom

August 31, 2007 @ 11:15AM
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WOOOOOOW

WOW, the TRANSOFMRATION from The skelton type guy to the MAN was SO AWESOME.. THUMBS UP!:)

MyToons Animation - Vexona

August 31, 2007 @ 11:14AM
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cool:)

cool stuff. nice job with the adam and eve animation, that was pretty riveting:)

MyToons Animation - StarshipAnimation

August 31, 2007 @ 11:12AM
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!

Sweetness all around, great animation, love the scene setups too. I got a kick out of the part where he hit his staff down and zoomed out of there:) nice work.

MyToons Animation - Raju

August 31, 2007 @ 11:10AM
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incredible!

incredible work man. wow that must of taken a year and a half!! made props.

MyToons Animation - heelgrinder

August 31, 2007 @ 11:10AM
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ok...

i have to go pick my jaw up off the floor now. breathtaking!

MyToons Animation - aj

August 31, 2007 @ 11:07AM
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