Doctor Who: Talking telesnaps animation demo

A demo of Doctor Who talking telesnaps and animation thanks to Crazy Talk. Its still not perfect yet and im still experimenting but as you can see this could revoutionise Reconstructions.

The first piece is from the Abominable snowmen the rest are from Wheel in space

Thanks to Who sprites for the "cartoon" Troughton which I animated

Telesnaps by John Cura

Copyright BBC they own everything this is not for profit just demo purposes only

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Doctor
• who
• telesnaps
• abominable
• snowmen
• wheel
• in
• space
• recons
• reconstructions
• animation

[HTprodsDW]

What did you use for this? I'm a bit of a editing freak and I think if I used this technique along with some other clever tricks,I could reconstruct a story completely!

[cbatt91337]

@HTprodsDW the programme is crazytalk and I have used it briefly on my recon of Power of the Daleks in part 4. It does unfortunately have its drawbacks as the mouth seems to react to the most prominant sound unfortunately that can sometimes be a sound effect over a bit of speech or music and it causes no end of problems. Good luck with it though I would be interested in seeing the results.

[HoraceAndTheSpider]

@cbatt91337

would the solution to that not be to create a "single character only" audio track, which, by use of gates/compression has only the sound you want on it? You could even manually scrub-out the sound fx or any other interfering sounds.

when the animation is made from that, you could then drop the "real" audio back in over the top.

[cbatt91337]

@HoraceAndTheSpider . Thanks for your comments. If you watch my version of Power of the Daleks part 4.1 you will be able to see some more and also hear the problems I had eg when Lesterton is talking to the Daleks there is a hum in the background and this comes accross as the most dominant sound while he is talking and unfortunately this is what the programme responds too. I did try to do what you suggested but it takes so much time and with two kids I just dont have that any more.

[Psylliumhead]

@cbatt91337 Hi, You can fix that by re-recording the speech in sinc with the original, do the animation, then reinsert the original.

[cbatt91337]

@Psylliumhead Hmmmmmmmmmm simple but effective, I'll give that a go! Thanks Mate.

[letsmakeit31]

Yes this is good!!, Keep up the good work, maybe make the comic doctor in black and white?. But it's all great fun to watch!.

[MrJim]

This is great. Well done Chris, it looks really good :-)

[usernameyoudick]

Interesting. Creepy, but interesting.

[zeg52]

I thought I'd have to wait to go to heaven to see some of this stuff again! This technology looks like the answer. Very well done!

[thespoon94]

THIS IS SIMPLY INCREDIBLE

[britfrenir]

@britfrenir Sorry I meant another animator.