Month: February 2012

Vocal sessions begin… and end!

Steve's happy with our progress!

UPDATE: There’s even a remix to bump in the car.

For about three and a half hours on Saturday, we got all of the voice actors in my dining room to lay down the vocals for SpaceBase: Infinity’s pilot episode.  After filling our stomachs with golabki and pierogies from Cracovia, we went through a table read of the script.  Looks like the final running time will be between 15 and 20 minutes.  Clips below…

Act 3, Scene 4

Act 2, Scene 2

 


Next, we’ll hopefully bring Josh on board (voice of Nat) to help push the project forward.  More sets, maybe some bodies for the characters, and hundreds of hours of small movements and photographs.

Until next time,
-Mike

The Name Invades SpaceBase: Infinity's Communications Satellite, I Guess!

There was craziness this weekend as rock/funk/ridiculous duo The Name hijacked SpaceBase: Infinity’s communications system and rocked the house… or the base, as the case may be.  Watch as Stack Dump and Cliff’s doppleganger grapple with a terrifying barrage of self-sampled mayhem!

As you can see, there are tons of mistakes in all areas – planning, photography, sequencing, editing, rendering… you name it, we messed it up.  Things on our to do / remember list:

  • Make sure when starting a new stop motion project, set the camera recording settings to an HD picture quality and aspect ratio.
  • If characters are going to be talking with their backs to the camera, make them move when they are talking rather than jittering randomly.
  • Adjust any sampled (aka YouTubed) footage to the same aspect ratio as the stop motion stills.
  • Try normalizing (?) the color balance and contrast on all stills before constructing the final scene.
  • Find a render setting that won’t screw up the 3d transformations.

That’s it for now!

-Mike

Meat Without Feet WPOP Release!

Meat Without Feet WPOP
Meat Without Feet: WPOP

It’s that time in an EP’s life when I give up trying to improve the vocals and throw my hands up in disgust.  With that in mind, I present to you: Meat Without Feet‘s latest release: WPOP.  It has some of the cleanest singing and production of anything I’ve done so far, even if I’m never actually happy with it.  WPOP, named after the former radio station located in Newington, CT, contains four new MWF tracks for your listening pleasure.  I don’t know which is the single… how about… the last one!?  Enjoy!

Download [Here] or stream each track:

01 – Introduction

02 – Technology Approaches!

03 – While on Top

04 – The Process

-Mike