Comments

L25 wrote on 2/14/2004, 4:48 PM
right on dude, much better than a stupidass tennis braclet. ...and great compositing work ;^) loved the break at 1:24
Randy Brown wrote on 2/14/2004, 5:13 PM
I made the mistake to let my wife (of 16 years) watch it over my shoulder ...she said "ahhhh" about 3 times and then slapped me up side the head at about 01:02 .... thanks a lot Muttley!
Seriously very well done!
Randy
johnbl wrote on 2/14/2004, 8:49 PM
Bravo... very nice indeed!!! Im sure she loved it......JOHN
bakerbud9 wrote on 2/14/2004, 8:58 PM
Cute little video...
you should get a nice response from your gf for that one.<g>
-nate
Jessariah67 wrote on 2/14/2004, 9:05 PM
Charming video, Ray. You should be proud. I really enjoyed that.

KH
Cheno wrote on 2/14/2004, 9:40 PM
Spectacular compositing work. Lots of time and effort.. much more investment than simply plunking down cash for something... poor = creativity

Grazie wrote on 2/14/2004, 9:49 PM
DANG! Must've missed it or wot? - Can hear it but can't see it? I've got BroadBAnd and WMP . . I download stuff from Chienworks site .. but can't get to see yours . .boo . .hooo... :-(

Grazie
Skywatcher wrote on 2/14/2004, 10:20 PM
...If I could only be so talented. GREAT Job man!

Skywatcher
kentwolf wrote on 2/14/2004, 10:41 PM
Terrific!

Question: What did you use (how) to put the glowing silhouettes around your people outlines?

Looks great! Good job!!!
jmeredith wrote on 2/14/2004, 11:18 PM
Anyone can run into a store and "buy" something... what you did took time, effort, thought, and came from the heart and that counts for a lot in my book. Thank you for sharing it with us.
PeterWright wrote on 2/15/2004, 12:31 AM
No wonder it took a while to render!

Ray - you have so much talent - you should be doing TV ads, music videos etc.
Grazie wrote on 2/15/2004, 1:33 AM
Ray! Brilliant . . All those layers and all those shadows . . I did love the little dog . .was it, did it reappear with Spaghetti all over its head! LOL - big time . .and your partners "Teeth" - caught me by surprise . . . Greart Stuff .. .

Thanks for sharing what is, after all, a fairly initmate little present . .lucky Gal . . what a wonderful thing to give someone . .

Grazie
TorS wrote on 2/15/2004, 3:00 AM
Beautiful.
Tor
Cheno wrote on 2/15/2004, 9:02 AM
The glow could have been either a border or the track motion glow effect. Easy to do and since he only had the pics against a transparent background, the glow highlighted the pics...

again, great work.
mark2929 wrote on 2/15/2004, 10:06 AM
Ray Just had a look must have taken some time a lot of FX Well done !
tam wrote on 2/15/2004, 10:15 AM
That was wonderful did you do all that in vegas video? If so my hats off to you! I would love to be that advanced.
FuTz wrote on 2/15/2004, 12:49 PM
WOOOOOOOOOOOW !!!
Bicubic talent!
You should seriously consider making video clips for bands if you don't do it now... seriously...!
Ooops, checked again on your site and you DO! : /










... and she's gorgeous! ;D
JL wrote on 2/15/2004, 1:19 PM
Ray – very artistic and creative. Thanks for sharing.

JL
MUTTLEY wrote on 2/15/2004, 2:28 PM
Wow, thanks all !

First off, she loved it. Overwhelmed might be a good word. She was more than a little embarrassed ( in a fun way ) since the first time she saw it was when I turned on the Austin Music Network and there the host was talking about it and doing an intro and then, there she was, doing karate and wearing a robe for all of Austin to see. I'll post it with the intro and outro as soon as I get the chance, its pretty funny. =)

As for making it, those were all just pics that we've taken since we've been together with our dinky Exlim Casio 2.0 mp camera. I did use some chromakey, but only on like two of the flower pics at the open. Those first two shots were where this whole thing started, more as an experiment than anything. All the rest were cut out, touched up, and saved as separate layers as Photoshop files since they also support transparency. The drop shadows and outer glow's were all done in Photoshop.

Again, thanks all. It takes it to a different level that not only she liked it, but ya'll liked it as well. Means a lot to me.

- Ray

www.undergroundplanet.com

P.S. Grazie, that wasn't spaghetti ! It was tassels from the throw rug ! lol, but now I may try the spaghetti thing at some point, my dog is going to hate you !
Guy Bruner wrote on 2/15/2004, 2:54 PM
Ray,
I'd like to add my congratulations. I first saw it on the chat board and was blown away. Impressive indeed....
Chanimal wrote on 2/15/2004, 5:43 PM
Incredible piece. Very creative. A lot of work went into this one.

I've seen your music videos, nice work also.

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Ted Finch
Chanimal.com

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kentwolf wrote on 2/15/2004, 9:28 PM
OK...Here's one:

Anyone under age 40 know who did the music? (Without looking?) :)

I do..but I'm 40. :)
Dwuane wrote on 2/16/2004, 5:01 AM
I thought it was awesome! I'd like to be able to that that someday.
Seeing things like that inspires me to learn more. Thanks.

Dwuane
DavidMcKnight wrote on 2/16/2004, 6:14 AM
Wow. Excellent work!