ROBOMAN tries the martial arts!

I was recently inspired to play around with stop-motion animation.  

Here's what I came up with...

Silly? Sure. Did you catch the tape that was holding down his foot.  

I had to use alot of it.

Jason Pichonsky's X Minus One trailer

Okay, if you're coming form Zombie Astronaut's blog you've already seen this, if not enjoy!

Just a reminder, post some comments in the... uhum comments section. Film-makers love an audience. Really.

So some background. About 2 years ago I discovered a program called Poser (rediscovered might be a better term, but 2 yrs ago it started to make sense to me). I also discovered radio theatre, and more specificly a sci-fi program called X-Minus One. Always a project oriented person, I started to teach myself 3-d animation utilizing Poser (version 5). I thought then and still do, that this series (or it's cousins Dimension X and Future Tense) would make an excellent animated series. So I started to experiment with that.

I never truely finished my experiments at least not to a point that would truely be satisfying-- a complete episode of X Minus One animated.

So the trailer you've seen is rough and not very polished, missing some lipsync and fully rendered material. Still there are moments I love about the piece. I really like the style of animation in "The Moon is Green" The original radio play doesn't pan out the way it should but I was infatuated with the opening scenario .

In "Chain of Command" I always envisioned a Looney Tune approach to the animation (the one where the mouse is playing the piano).

The Martian really works for me.

And I actually have a 3-d version of "How To" sitting on my drives. If I can find it I think I'll post it. Get out your red and blue glasses!!!

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