Custom figures and dioramas

[Dearth]

My newest Muppet re-edit... fairly simplistic, but I had this idea a long time ago and just now got the technology mastered.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LibuDsvUGaY

The Wedding(s) of Miss Piggy and Kermit the Frog


Alex

 

[Muppetaz]

I clicked on the link but youtube says it's blocked, . maybe you could try reposting it.

 

[Dearth]

I clicked on the link but youtube says it's blocked, . maybe you could try reposting it.

Hmmm... took me two days to get it to upload without aborting due to 'unknown errors'.

It plays for me, but it does say 'blocked in some countries' on my description. Are you in the US?

Then it says something really confusing. It tells me the video is blocked worldwide, but is still available worldwide. Gee, thanks YouTube, for clearing that up.

Anyone else tried it yet? Same problem?

My suspicion is that it got auto-flagged by the first three seconds of audio, which ironically were one of the very last things that I added. I took the soundbyte (Chef singing "Wedding, wedding, Pig and Froggy wedding") from a CD because it was easier than ripping another video clip to get the same audio.

Everything else in it is from video. In fact, the Marisa Berenson episode clips were downloaded FROM YouTube because I couldn't get that DVD to rip. So I'm reasonably confident it's not the video portion tripping the auto-flags.

Sigh. I can re-edit it with audio from video only, and replace those three CD seconds with their DVD equivalent. But it means re-saving the file, and then re-uploading it. And it still might get flagged if my theory is wrong.

UPDATE--
Instead of ripping the DVD, I just cued up the correct clip on YouTube and used Creative Recorder to bag the audio. I replaced the audio in my edit within minutes... and it will take more than an hour to save to my drive.

Then no telling how many uploads will abort before I get one to take.

But I am working on it.

Alex

 

[Dearth]

Well, good news and bad news.

Good: I got the re-edit uploaded on the first try!

Bad: It's still blocked.

Alex

 

[Muppetaz]

Dearth, do you have the link to the site with the dioramas you made, I want to print out some more to do stop motion with, but i can't find it.

 

[Dearth]

Most of them should be here...

http://threads.rebelscum.com/showfl...530&page=2&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=93&fpart=all

Alex

 

[Muppetaz]

thanks, btw in either the alice cooper episode, or vincent price, two ghosts are at the dance who dissapear, leaving just the backround. maybe you could use that for your "at the dance" backdrop.

 

[Dearth]

I skimmed through Alice Cooper first, but it's actually in the Vincent Price episode.

Good catch. You're starting to think like a screencap-printer!

There are two shots where the ghosts fade out, and you can piece together an approximation of the entire set...

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagepopup.php?imagename=http:%2F%2Fthreads.rebelscum.com%2Fphotogallery%2Fwatermark.php?file=199026&imagewidth=1024&imageheight=392

That particular 'At the Dance' ceiling would be cooler to do with some draped plastic material and a few dollhouse chandeliers, though.

Unfortunately, a) dollhouse chandeliers are too pricey for my tastes and b) I have no idea how to wire them to light up.

So I think I still prefer the more rectangular 'At the Dance' ceiling, the one that looks sort of like a Persian rug or something.

I've got the image for it, pasted together from several frames in a skit where the camera was panning left and right, revealing the whole shape.

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...p?file=113106&imagewidth=1023&imageheight=441

I just never printed it out.

Now that I look at it again, I think it's probably the chandeliers that still held me back.

Hmmm... maybe I should do it as a greenscreen diorama. Shoot the action figures against a blue or green backdrop and composite them into the frame of the show instead of actually making a physical diorama.

I've done that a few times.

Alex

 

[Dearth]

You've seen this Muppet Babies backdrop before, with my McDonald's premiums and some PVC's. But it also works with my newly acquired Tyco Muppet Babies figurines!

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...hp?file=199482&imagewidth=704&imageheight=539
These eight are from the 'Imagination Park' playset. As soon as I learned it included a Skeeter, I had to track one down.

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...hp?file=199484&imagewidth=749&imageheight=443
These are from the castle playset. I got it primarily for Bunsen and Beaker, although the dragon is really growing on me.

http://threads.rebelscum.com/imagep...hp?file=199485&imagewidth=825&imageheight=303
Ten different characters... none of the others seem to notice that Bunsen and Beaker are in medieval garb.

Alex

 

[Muppetaz]

I just remembered, in the Rudolph Nureeve episode scooter enters the guest star dressing room, but it's empty, You could use that for another diorama.