Flipside (the film, that is)
Oct. 16th, 2002 06:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tugrikBalance is good. In this case, I was a little bummed by my own cheating on the diet (which I fully blame on folks at work buying a ton of pastries that I've got a definitive weakness for).... but in the middle of feeling down last night, an email came in that just made my day.
It was a simple note, from one Clayton Rye, my old Cinematography professor. He asked how I'm doing, and was glad to find me via the net. He just wanted to let me know that he still used my film in his classes. To quote: "I still use your dream animation movie as an example in the one film class we still offer. The students are still impressed." Back when I made the film in question I'd gotten accolades from the teachers for it. And now here, 11 years later, it still was still being seen. Admittedly, their film classes have become much smaller and less involved -- and the film is embarrasingly 'Look at the Newbie Moving Clay Around"-- but still, it makes me smile.
Sorry about the crappy encoding on the film. The one copy I had was a terrible VHS made of it a long time back, and when I encoded it for my website RealMedia was the only video streaming format out there. I've asked Clayton to please send along a new copy of it if he could, so I can re-encode it DiVX and actually be able to see the paper-animated part at the end. If you'd like, I've got the story behind the film's creation posted as well. The links on that page are broken, though. I'll fix that when I get the re-encoding done. the fellow starring in the film, BTW, is my old college roomie Adam. :)
I highly recommend watching the higher bitrate, smaller image one. That one moves the best.
He ended the letter with a comment that made me flinch a little: "I hope you are currently using your creativity." He always had faith in me... a faith that's given me a lot of support.
Maybe I should go pick up that old Bolex wind-up 8mm camera again. It's been way too long.
It was a simple note, from one Clayton Rye, my old Cinematography professor. He asked how I'm doing, and was glad to find me via the net. He just wanted to let me know that he still used my film in his classes. To quote: "I still use your dream animation movie as an example in the one film class we still offer. The students are still impressed." Back when I made the film in question I'd gotten accolades from the teachers for it. And now here, 11 years later, it still was still being seen. Admittedly, their film classes have become much smaller and less involved -- and the film is embarrasingly 'Look at the Newbie Moving Clay Around"-- but still, it makes me smile.
Sorry about the crappy encoding on the film. The one copy I had was a terrible VHS made of it a long time back, and when I encoded it for my website RealMedia was the only video streaming format out there. I've asked Clayton to please send along a new copy of it if he could, so I can re-encode it DiVX and actually be able to see the paper-animated part at the end. If you'd like, I've got the story behind the film's creation posted as well. The links on that page are broken, though. I'll fix that when I get the re-encoding done. the fellow starring in the film, BTW, is my old college roomie Adam. :)
I highly recommend watching the higher bitrate, smaller image one. That one moves the best.
He ended the letter with a comment that made me flinch a little: "I hope you are currently using your creativity." He always had faith in me... a faith that's given me a lot of support.
Maybe I should go pick up that old Bolex wind-up 8mm camera again. It's been way too long.
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Date: 2002-10-16 11:16 pm (UTC)-T.
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Date: 2002-10-17 12:06 am (UTC)If you download the latest free Realplayer and try to load it, it'll go back and get copies of the old codecs required and play. At least it does on WinXP, Win2K and OS9 (the ones I've tried it on).
It'll be a good while before I get a good video-copy again so I can encode it with modern codecs.
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Date: 2002-10-17 06:15 am (UTC)